Books like The Sympathizer by Viet Thanh Nguyen

Set during the French Indochina War, the novel follows British journalist Thomas Fowler, his mistress Phuong, and American idealist Pyle, whose ambitions and tragic fate reshape their lives amid political turmoil.

The Orphan Master's Son follows a man's journey through propaganda, identity, and state power in North Korea.

Former MI5 spy turned BBC radio producer Juliet Armstrong must confront dangerous foes from her World War II past when her old enemies stalk her in London after decades of quiet life.

Regeneration follows two real soldiers at Craiglockhart Hospital during World War I, exploring their shell‑shock, rehabilitation, and the intellectual debates that shaped postwar Britain.

Bob Lee Swagger, a Vietnam veteran, returns to Idaho for a quiet ranch life but finds that the memories and unresolved threats from his war days still haunt him.

Denis Johnson’s epic novel follows CIA operative Skip Sands, whose psychological‑operations work in Vietnam exposes the blurred lines between friend and foe amid the chaos of war.

A young Jewish writer, targeted by McCarthyism, bargains with the nascent CIA to spy in a war‑torn Berlin, only to discover his true mission is to watch the woman he once loved.

"In 1945, Jewish refugees by the thousands set out for Palestine. Those who made it relied on the underground to shelter them; taking false names, they blended with the population, joining the wildly different factions fighting for independence. "City of Secrets" follows one survivor, Brand, as he tries to regain himself after losing everyone he's ever loved. Now driving a taxi provided--like his new identity--by the underground, he navigates the twisting streets of Jerusalem as well as the overlapping, sometimes deadly loyalties of the resistance. Alone, haunted by memories, Brand tries to become again the man he was before the war--honest, strong, capable of moral choice. He falls in love with Eva, a fellow survivor and member of his cell, and commits himself to the revolution, accepting missions that grow more and more dangerous even as he suspects he's being used by his cell's dashing leader, Asher. By the time Brand understands the truth, it's too late." -- jacket.

Interior Chinatown follows Willis Wu, a young actor in New York’s Chinatown, as he confronts stereotypes, family secrets, and the elusive quest for identity in a world that scripts his reality.

After World War II, OSS agents Cletus Frade and teammates protect a secret U.S. deal with Germany to uncover Soviet spies in the atomic bomb program.

Paco Sullivan survives a devastating Viet Cong attack on Fire Base Harriette, only to return home broken—physically and mentally. Struggling with trauma, he seeks a job and peace in Boone, Texas, while haunted by war’s ghosts.

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.

In Salonika during the 1940 Greek defense of the Balkan front, former police official Costa Zannis navigates espionage, danger, and complex relationships as he plots an escape route from Berlin to Turkey amid looming Nazi invasion.