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Books like The Odessa File
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 6 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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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