I'm looking fiction books dealing with Cold War espionage, the KGB, the Stasi, East/West Germany. Things like that. Good spy stuff set in and around the Cold War dealing with Soviet, American and East German intelligence/spies.
Thank you.
by -Granby-
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The Spy Who Came in from the Cold by John le Carre (and other novels by him)
*Blind Man’s Bluff: The Untold Story of American Submarine Espionage* by Sherry Sontag, Christopher Drew, and Annette Lawrence Drew.
*The World Was Going Our Way: The KGB and the Battle for the Third World – Newly Revealed Secrets from the Mitrokhin Archive* by Vasili Mitrokhin and Christopher Andrew.
*The Sword and the Shield: The Mitrokhin Archive and the Secret History of the KGB* by Vasili Mitrokhin and Christopher Andrew.
Not the deepest novel by I have a fondness for The Matarese Circle by Robert Ludlum
Alan Furst. It’s kind of hard to describe, but some of his novels feel like they just have this kind of gray atmosphere about them. It’s surreal.
Le Carre is also great.
The Russian Way of War… Might be too modern for what you are asking. Edit. Oops you asked for fiction
This is my wheelhouse!
Fiction:
Funeral in Berlin by Len Deighton.
The Karla Trilogy by John Le Carré.
Gorky Park by Martin Cruz Smith.
Non-fiction:
Last Stop Execution by Oleg Gordievsky.
The Moscow Rules by Jonna Mendez.
Man Without a Face: The Autobiography of Communism’s Greatest Spymaster by Markus Wolf