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Books like The Firm
The best books like The Firm are The Spy and the Traitor: The Greatest Espionage Story of the Cold War, Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup, and The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine. The Firm by John Grisham is about moral compromise, corporate corruption, survival under pressure. If that's what drew you in, here are 12 books that share its DNA — each summarized on Superbook, and ready to chat with in the app.
- The Spy and the Traitor: The Greatest Espionage Story of the Cold War
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The Spy and the Traitor: The Greatest Espionage Story of the Cold War
Ben Macintyre · History
Ben Macintyre tells the story of Oleg Gordievsky, a KGB officer who became the most important British spy of the Cold War.
A kindred thriller read.
Read the summary → - Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup
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Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup
John Carreyrou · Business
Bad Blood is Wall Street Journal reporter John Carreyrou's account of Theranos, the blood-testing startup founded by Elizabeth Holmes that claimed its proprietary technology could run hundreds of diagnostic tests from a single finger-prick of blood.
A kindred thriller read.
Read the summary → - The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine
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The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine
Michael Lewis · Economics
The Big Short is Michael Lewis's account of the 2008 financial crisis as seen through the eyes of a handful of contrarians who saw the collapse coming, bet against the American housing market, and were right.
A kindred thriller read.
Read the summary → - In Cold Blood
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Truman Capote · Memoir
Truman Capote's account of the 1959 murders of the Clutter family in Holcomb, Kansas — and of the investigation, capture, trial, and execution of the killers Perry Smith and Richard Hickock — is the founding document of the true crime genre and one of the most admired works of American nonfiction of the twentieth century.
A kindred thriller read.
Read the summary → - The Pelican Brief
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John Grisham · Thriller
Two Supreme Court justices are assassinated in a single night.
A kindred thriller read.
Read the summary → - The Cartel
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Don Winslow · Thriller
The Cartel is the second installment in Don Winslow's trilogy about the Mexican drug war, picking up years after The Power of the Dog left off.
Both dig into moral compromise.
Read the summary → - The Constant Gardener
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John le Carré · Thriller
Justin Quayle is a mild, reserved British diplomat stationed in Kenya.
Both dig into corporate corruption.
Read the summary → - The Dogs of Riga
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Henning Mankell · Thriller
The Dogs of Riga is the second Kurt Wallander novel, published in 1992 and set partly in Sweden but primarily in Latvia at the moment the Soviet Union is collapsing.
Both dig into moral compromise.
Read the summary → - The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
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The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
Stieg Larsson · Thriller
Mikael Blomkvist is a financial journalist in Stockholm who has just lost a libel case brought by a billionaire industrialist.
Both dig into corporate corruption.
Read the summary → - The Power of the Dog
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Don Winslow · Thriller
The Power of the Dog is Don Winslow's epic of the American drug war, covering roughly three decades from the 1970s to the early 2000s and tracing the rise of the Sinaloa cartel through the lives of a DEA agent, a priest, a hitman, a cartel boss, and several other figures whose fates are bound together by money, faith, violence, and the specific kind of corruption that a war without exit produces.
Both dig into moral compromise.
Read the summary → - Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy
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John le Carré · Thriller
George Smiley, a rumpled, semi-retired British intelligence officer, is pulled back from the cold to investigate a claim that a Soviet mole has burrowed into the very top of MI6 — the Circus, as insiders call it.
Both dig into moral compromise.
Read the summary → - Devil in a Blue Dress
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Walter Mosley · Mystery
Easy Rawlins is a Black World War II veteran living in Watts in 1948.
Both dig into moral compromise.
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Books like The Firm: quick answers
What are the best books like The Firm?
The best books like The Firm by John Grisham are The Spy and the Traitor: The Greatest Espionage Story of the Cold War by Ben Macintyre, Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup by John Carreyrou, The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine by Michael Lewis, In Cold Blood by Truman Capote, The Pelican Brief by John Grisham, plus 7 more below. Each was chosen for themes it shares with The Firm, such as moral compromise, corporate corruption, survival under pressure.
What should I read after The Firm?
A natural next read after The Firm is The Spy and the Traitor: The Greatest Espionage Story of the Cold War by Ben Macintyre. A kindred thriller read. Other strong choices are Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup by John Carreyrou, The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine by Michael Lewis, In Cold Blood by Truman Capote.
What books are similar to The Firm by John Grisham?
The Firm centers on moral compromise, corporate corruption, survival under pressure. Books with a similar feel include The Spy and the Traitor: The Greatest Espionage Story of the Cold War by Ben Macintyre, Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup by John Carreyrou, The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine by Michael Lewis, In Cold Blood by Truman Capote, The Pelican Brief by John Grisham, The Cartel by Don Winslow — all free to read and chat with on Superbook.
