"Spies Like Us at Elk Books" Playlist

The Thirty Nine Steps

By: John Buchan
Narrated by: Peter Joyce
Length: 4 hours 35 minutes

Among the first "espionage thrillers" and an acknowledged classic, The Thirty-Nine Steps well deserves its accolades as one of the best adventure stories of all time. Leaving aside the improbable denouement, the fast paced, brilliantly conceived narrative still excites and carries one along with the sheer suspense of the manhunt - a recurring... Read more

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The Secret Agent

By: Joseph Conrad
Narrated by: Bryan Matthews
Length: 8 hours 36 minutes

The Secret Agent by Joseph Conrad is a complex narrative set in London in 1886, centering on Adolf Verloc, a secret agent working for an unnamed foreign embassy, likely representing Russia. Verloc leads a double life as a shopkeeper selling dubious items like pornography and contraceptives while also being embedded within a group of anarchists... Read more

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Above Suspicion

By: Helen MacInnes
Narrated by: Kate Reading
Length: 10 hours 37 minutes

Richard and Frances Myles are preparing for their annual European summer vacation in 1939 when they are visited at their Oxford college by old friend Peter Galt, who has a seemingly simple job for them. But in the heightened atmosphere of prewar Europe, nobody is above suspicion, in fact the husband and wife are being carefully monitored by... Read more

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The Day of the Jackal

By: Frederick Forsyth
Narrated by: David Rintoul
Length: 13 hours 2 minutes

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One of the most celebrated thrillers ever written, The Day of the Jackal is the exhilarating story of the struggle to catch a killer before it's too late.

1963. An anonymous Englishman is hired by the Operations Chief of French terrorist organisation... Read more

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