Character driven spy/mystery novels
I tend to gravitate to thrillers - primarily spy/espionage but occasionally crime/mystery. What links my preferences, though, is that the main protagonist is either an amateur who finds themselves being pulled into extraordinary circumstances or that the protagonist is a world-weary professional. There is also a sense that the novels below are all literate; they are extraordinarily well written as well as bering good and easy reads. My own novels, Fit for Purpose and Of Love and Honour, follow such a pattern as my protagonists are 40-something amateurs who find themselves being pulled into international intrigue.
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