Books like Potsdam station by David Downing

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.

"Paris, November 1945. John Russell is walking home along the banks of the Seine on a cold and misty evening when Soviet agent Yevgeny Shchepkin falls into step alongside him. Shchepkin tells Russell that the American intelligence will soon be asking him to undertake some low grade espionage on their behalf--assessing the strains between different sections of the German Communist Party--and that Shchepkin's own bosses in Moscow want him to accept the task and pass his findings on to them. He adds that refusal will put Russell's livelihood and life at risk, but that once he has accepted it, he'll find himself even further entangled in the Soviet net. It's a lose-lose situation. Shchepkin admits that his own survival now depends on his ability to utilize Russell. The only way out for the two of them is to make a deal with the Americans. If they can come up with something the Americans want or need badly enough, then perhaps Russell will be forgiven for handing German atomic secrets over to Moscow and Shchepkin might be offered the sort of sanctuary that also safeguards the lives of his wife and daughter in Moscow. Every decision Russell makes now is a dangerous one"--

Set in ruined Berlin, 1948, spy John Russell, double‑agent for NKVD and CIA, must secure a single damning intelligence piece before his duplicity is exposed—elevating the Cold War stakes to perilous heights.

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.

After a daring victory in Moscow Rules, Gabriel Allon must confront a vanished defector and a ruthless Russian oligarch, racing from London to Lake Como, Geneva, Zurich, and the snowy forests of Russia.

David Downing’s debut John Russel novel unfolds a tense espionage tale set in wartime Berlin, following American recruiters, journalists, and spies as they navigate the city’s dangerous underground networks during World War II.

A thrilling spy novel set against the backdrop of World War II, following a cargo ship captain's dangerous mission to help Britain's allies fight Nazi Germany's submarines and ships, as well as smuggle equipment to a Swedish coast operation to aid the war effort.

A daring OSS operative must help a German lieutenant escape a Mississippi POW camp, uncover a Nazi conspiracy to assassinate Hitler, and protect the lieutenants’ parents in Argentina from a lethal assassination plot.

A thrilling espionage novel about the OSS agents tasked with convincing Hitler that the Allied invasion will take place on the beaches of Spain.

Set in World War II, this large‑print thriller follows the United States Office of Strategic Services as operatives navigate espionage, sabotage, and the race against Nazi breakthroughs.

A thrilling espionage story of World War II

When WWII threatens Britain, former Churchill aide Maggie Hope is shipped to Windsor Castle to tutor Princess Elizabeth in math—only to find a deadly conspiracy that endangers the royal family and the nation.