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Books like The Odessa File
The best books like The Odessa File are The Day of the Jackal, The Spy and the Traitor: The Greatest Espionage Story of the Cold War, and Operation Mincemeat: How a Dead Man and a Bizarre Plan Fooled the Nazis and Assured an Allied Victory. The Odessa File by Frederick Forsyth is about nazi fugitives and justice, institutional impunity, undercover identity. 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 Day of the Jackal
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Frederick Forsyth · Thriller
In the summer of 1963, the OAS — a right-wing French terrorist organization furious at de Gaulle's withdrawal from Algeria — hires a professional assassin known only as the Jackal to kill the French president.
A kindred thriller read.
Read the summary → - 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 → - Operation Mincemeat: How a Dead Man and a Bizarre Plan Fooled the Nazis and Assured an Allied Victory
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Ben Macintyre · History
In 1943, British intelligence planted a dead man on a Spanish beach carrying fabricated documents designed to convince the Germans that the Allied invasion of southern Europe would target Greece and Sardinia rather than Sicily.
A kindred thriller read.
Read the summary → - Ordinary Men: Reserve Police Battalion 101 and the Final Solution in Poland
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Ordinary Men: Reserve Police Battalion 101 and the Final Solution in Poland
Christopher R. Browning · History
Ordinary Men is Christopher Browning's study of Reserve Police Battalion 101, a unit of middle-aged German men — not hardened SS officers but Hamburg policemen with civilian lives and families — who between 1942 and 1943 shot approximately 38,000 Jewish men, women, and children in occupied Poland and deported another 45,000 to the Treblinka death camp.
A kindred thriller read.
Read the summary → - A Time to Kill
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John Grisham · Thriller
In Clanton, Mississippi, two white men rape and nearly kill ten-year-old Tonya Hailey.
A kindred thriller read.
Read the summary → - Along Came a Spider
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James Patterson · Thriller
Along Came a Spider introduces Alex Cross, a Black homicide detective and forensic psychologist working in Washington D.C., in the case that made James Patterson a bestseller.
A kindred thriller read.
Read the summary → - Angels & Demons
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Dan Brown · Thriller
Physicist Leonardo Vetra is found dead at CERN with a symbol burned into his chest: the Illuminati ambigram.
A kindred thriller read.
Read the summary → - Big Little Lies
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Liane Moriarty · Thriller
Big Little Lies begins with a death at a school trivia night and then spends its entire length working backward to explain how it happened.
A kindred thriller read.
Read the summary → - Blacklands
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Belinda Bauer · Thriller
Twelve-year-old Steven Lamb lives in the shadow of an unresolved disappearance.
A kindred thriller read.
Read the summary → - Blindsighted
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Karin Slaughter · Thriller
Blindsighted is Karin Slaughter's debut novel, published in 2001, and the first book in the Grant County series set in fictional Heartsdale, Georgia.
A kindred thriller read.
Read the summary → - Dark Places
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Gillian Flynn · Thriller
Libby Day survived the Kansas farmhouse massacre that killed her mother and two sisters when she was seven.
A kindred thriller read.
Read the summary → - Die Trying
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Lee Child · Thriller
Jack Reacher is in the wrong place at the wrong time in Chicago — helping a woman with dry cleaning when she is snatched off the street.
A kindred thriller read.
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Books like The Odessa File: quick answers
What are the best books like The Odessa File?
The best books like The Odessa File by Frederick Forsyth are The Day of the Jackal by Frederick Forsyth, The Spy and the Traitor: The Greatest Espionage Story of the Cold War by Ben Macintyre, Operation Mincemeat: How a Dead Man and a Bizarre Plan Fooled the Nazis and Assured an Allied Victory by Ben Macintyre, Ordinary Men: Reserve Police Battalion 101 and the Final Solution in Poland by Christopher R. Browning, A Time to Kill by John Grisham, plus 7 more below. Each was chosen for themes it shares with The Odessa File, such as nazi fugitives and justice, institutional impunity, undercover identity.
What should I read after The Odessa File?
A natural next read after The Odessa File is The Day of the Jackal by Frederick Forsyth. A kindred thriller read. Other strong choices are The Spy and the Traitor: The Greatest Espionage Story of the Cold War by Ben Macintyre, Operation Mincemeat: How a Dead Man and a Bizarre Plan Fooled the Nazis and Assured an Allied Victory by Ben Macintyre, Ordinary Men: Reserve Police Battalion 101 and the Final Solution in Poland by Christopher R. Browning.
What books are similar to The Odessa File by Frederick Forsyth?
The Odessa File centers on nazi fugitives and justice, institutional impunity, undercover identity. Books with a similar feel include The Day of the Jackal by Frederick Forsyth, The Spy and the Traitor: The Greatest Espionage Story of the Cold War by Ben Macintyre, Operation Mincemeat: How a Dead Man and a Bizarre Plan Fooled the Nazis and Assured an Allied Victory by Ben Macintyre, Ordinary Men: Reserve Police Battalion 101 and the Final Solution in Poland by Christopher R. Browning, A Time to Kill by John Grisham, Along Came a Spider by James Patterson — all free to read and chat with on Superbook.
