Spies Я Us -- Which ones?
Don't think we've had a thread lately about spy thrillers and their kin.
My two favorite series going are Alex Berenson's John Wells series and Daniel Silva's Gabriel Allon.
It's an interesting pairing, since Wells is an American who converted to Islam while embedded in AQ for many years--that's not a spoiler, that's a given in the series. And Allon is a (trying-to-be) retired assassin for Mossad whose love is art restoration.
Both, though, live in pretty morally complex and ambiguous worlds.
The first Wells novel, The Faithful Spy covers much of the same territory as the first season of Homeland. By the way, Wells came five years before the series.
The first Allon novel, The Kill Artist sets out many of the tensions of personal desire versus duty that are ever-present in the series.
So, when you need a spy fix, where do you go?
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