Books like Killing Pablo: The Hunt for the World's Greatest Outlaw
12 books with a reading profile close to Killing Pablo: The Hunt for the World's Greatest Outlaw by Mark Bowden. Outward-looking and clear-cut; an easy read.
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Pompeii
Also outward-looking · history, thriller
Set in the final days before the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 AD, the narrative follows Marcus Attilius Primus, a young engineer sent to repair the Augusta, the world’s largest aqueduct.
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An Officer and a Spy
Also clear-cut · history, thriller
Set in late nineteenth-century Paris, this narrative reconstructs the Dreyfus Affair through the perspective of Georges Picquart, an ambitious military intelligence officer.
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The Librarian Spy
Also clear-cut · history, thriller
Ava Harper, a librarian from the Library of Congress, travels to neutral Lisbon during World War II to gather intelligence through international newspapers and microfilmed documents.
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The Paris Architect
Also clear-cut · history, thriller
In Nazi-occupied Paris, Lucien Bernard is an architect who maintains a public facade of neutrality to secure commissions from German officers.
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Shadow Divers
Also outward-looking and clear-cut · history, thriller
In 1991, recreational divers John Chatterton and Richie Kohler discovered an unidentified shipwreck sixty miles off the coast of New Jersey.
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The Eagle has Landed
Also outward-looking and clear-cut · history, thriller
In 1943, Lieutenant Colonel Kurt Steiner leads a small unit of German paratroopers on a mission to kidnap Winston Churchill from a remote Norfolk village.
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We Were Soldiers Once... and Young: Ia Drang - The Battle that Changed the War in Vietnam
Also outward-looking and clear-cut · history, narrative
Lieutenant General Harold G.
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Eaters of the Dead
history, thriller
Ahmad ibn Fadlan, a tenth-century Arab diplomat, is forced to accompany a group of Vikings on a journey to the northern lands.
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In the Kingdom of Ice: The Grand and Terrible Polar Voyage of the USS Jeannette
Also outward-looking and clear-cut · history, narrative
In 1879, Lieutenant George De Long led the USS Jeannette toward the North Pole, fueled by the incorrect scientific theory of an Open Polar Sea.
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The Spy and the Traitor: The Greatest Espionage Story of the Cold War
Also outward-looking and clear-cut · history, thriller
The narrative follows Oleg Gordievsky, a high-ranking KGB officer who spent over a decade providing Soviet state secrets to MI6.
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The Longest Day: June 6, 1944
Also outward-looking and clear-cut · history, narrative
Cornelius Ryan reconstructs the D-Day invasion by weaving together hundreds of individual accounts from Allied and German soldiers, as well as French civilians.
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