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Jake Tapper’s Spy Novel Is Startlingly Good

Bookworm: The Washington hand’s debut thriller ‘The Hellfire Club’ delivers

By Alexander Aciman · May 7, 2018

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The Blot Against America

British political journalist and spy-thriller writer Jonathan Freedland imagined a president in need of removal from office before Trump was elected

By David Patrikarakos · March 1, 2018

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Daniel Silva’s Crystal Ball

The novelist’s work regularly foreshadows actual events. In his latest book, the action finally shifts to Israel.

By Michael M. Rosen · July 19, 2012

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Jerusalem Stone

Robert Stone’s 1998 novel Damascus Gate sets spies, cultists, and terrorists loose in the Holy Land

By Adam Kirsch · August 16, 2011