Books like The tourist by Olen Steinhauer

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.

Two disgraced Secret Service agents race against time to uncover the link behind a string of assassinations and kidnappings, exposing political corruption that threatens the United States’ presidents and presidential candidates.

A radical group targets Florida’s tourism industry in a violent attempt to cleanse the state of greed and corruption, drawing a gritty detective narrative into the heart of Miami’s resort culture.

When a former CIA interrogator is murdered, Agent John Wells must investigate hints of a covert Polish base, the Midnight House, and a deadly trail of Islamist terror that challenges his own loyalties.

Former CIA agent John Wells must stop an Iranian plot to kill a CIA station chief and launch a nuclear attack, going undercover from Guatemala to Hong Kong and Istanbul.

A North Korean missile strike, a CIA murder, and a forged dossier conspire to threaten the U.S. President, forcing Jack Ryan Jr. and Campus agents to race against time to prevent a global crisis.

A tense espionage thriller that follows former CIA operative Milo Weaver as he battles the Chinese secret service and conspirators from the United Nations and German BND in a deadly quest for revenge.

A thrilling tale of espionage and action in Argentina, featuring Delta Force officer Charley Castillo and his team solving a DEA agent missing case.

ESPIONAGE & SPY THRILLER. An attack on a Japanese warship brings Japan and China to the brink of war. Meanwhile, top Covert-One operative Colonel Jon Smith is sent on a mission to recover mysterious material from the wreckage of the Fukushima nuclear reactor. When Smith fails to return, CIA agent Randi Russell heads off on an unsanctioned mission to find him. She quickly discovers that the missing samples may be evidence that Japan, led by hawkish military chief of staff Masao Takahashi, has been secretly developing next-generation weapons systems in preparation for a conflict with China. If the Covert-One team can't prevent General Takahashi from provoking a war, the entire world will be dragged into a battle certain to kill tens of millions of people and leave much of planet uninhabitable for centuries.

CIA agent Hugh Rincon and Coast Guard officer Sara Lange race against a terrorist plot to detonate a dirty bomb in Alaska, following a global trail from Thailand to Russia that culminates in an intense naval showdown.

In 1946 Munich, two Women Airforce Service Pilots fight off Soviet NKGB agents, killing three attackers and setting off a chain of events that reverberates through the nascent CIA.