I’m looking for books with vibes similar to that of the Hitman franchise. I’m familiar with many of the major spy novels like Reacher, James Bond, Bourne identity, and many Le Carre novels. I’m looking for lots of corporate espionage, conspiracies, secret societies controlling the world type stuff. I’m very family with the fantasy and sci fi genre so I don’t mind recs from those genres too that fit this setting but I am mostly looking for a modern esk setting.
by Nosferatoomuchforme
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Foul Lady Fortune by Chloe Gong has spies, assassins, action, and mystery with a larger conspiracy at play. Set in 1930s Shanghai.
Check out Berlin Noir by Philip Kerr: Hard boiled detective investigating murder and mayhem in mid to late 30s Nazi Germany.
The Victor the Assassin series, by Tom Wood, starting with The Hunter (or The Killer, in the US)
I’ve read several in this genre and my two favorites by far are The Company by Robert Littell and The Charm School by Nelson DeMille
Red Sparrow Jason Matthew first of a trilogy with the main character a Russian SVB officer out to get a Russian Mole
The Spy and the Traitor by Ben Macintyre is some of the best shit I’ve ever read