Books like Avalanche Express by Colin Forbes

A Soviet nuclear submarine marked for defection slips into the Atlantic, sparking a high‑stakes pursuit by the United States and the Soviet Union in this tense Cold War thriller.

Michael Crichton’s thriller follows a seizure‑prone man who gains control of an implanted brain device, turning him into a dangerous and unstoppable antagonist.

The Third Man, a novella by Graham Greene, follows the mysterious black‑market trader Harry Lime in post‑war Vienna, where he is believed to be dead.

When a respected farmer is bludgeoned to death in his study, Scotland Yard detectives Hannasyde and Hemingway uncover a web of hidden motives, culminating in a second murder that forces them to confront a relentless killer.

An orphaned man falls in love with his cousin's widow after she moves into the manor house.

A smuggler turned informant, Andrews seeks refuge with a lonely young woman, only to find that betraying his partners carries a perilous cost—both criminals and law regard treachery as a treasonous crime.

Jason Bourne, a deep‑cover operative with no memory, is rescued after a beachwreck and discovers a bank account embedded in his body that leads him to Switzerland and the truth about his past.

John le Carré’s Cold‑War spy thriller follows British agent Alec Leamas as he takes one last perilous assignment to outwit East German intelligence.

From My Reader's Block: It (the novel)follows Fenton Ravel, a French-American young woman who has returned to France from America. She is in search of answers about the disappearance of Bastineau, a man she grew up with and whom she grew to love. It is said that Bastineau died in an avalanche, along with two men he was guiding in the French Alps, but Fenton refuses to believe that he is dead. As she makes her way to the mountains where she grew up, she doesn't realize that there is someone else on the darkened train who also searches for Bastineau and the secrets his disappearance hides. The locals are suspicious of her, in part because she is viewed as having abandoned France (for America) when war was rumbling on the horizon. Now that she's back, she is seen in the company men suspected of being spies and the villagers are fearful that the secret work of the resistance will be revealed--either deliberately or inadvertently by her return.Will she be able to help the man she loves...or will she unknowingly lead the enemy to him?

In Prohibition‑era New York, criminals rule while honest cops struggle and a powerful boss manipulates justice. Simon Templar, the famed Saint, is summoned to restore order and faces threats both expected and unforeseen.

A Cold War spy memoir that revisits George Smiley's past, revealing the bravery and cunning of a man who has seen it all.

In the quiet village of Prior's Umborne, a series of poison-pen letters stirs suspicion. Nigel Strangeways is called upon to uncover the culprit before more harm occurs, amid secrets and a mysterious death at the dreadful hollow.

Widowed professor’s widow, Imogen, navigates family drama and a murder accusation after her husband’s sudden death.

A tense, psychological thriller in which a young couple’s volatile relationship, after the husband’s divorce, spirals into a violent conflict that culminates in a shocking murder.

Tweed, a seasoned investigator, takes on the murder of the matriarch of Europe's most powerful private bank, unraveling a web of intrigue that blurs the lines between finance and crime.

When a clandestine group of scientists called the Immari unearths relics from an ancient enemy, humanity faces certain extinction. Only a genetics doctor and a secret agent can race against time to discover the fabled Atlantis Gene and halt the catastrophe.