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Books for Fans of the TV Series The Americans

Posted over 3 years ago by April S

Spy novels have it all - action, drama, intrigue, espionage, complex characters and interesting storylines. That's probably the reason the spy genre translates so well on both the big and small screen. Stories with spies and anything involving the government have become really popular in recent years with TV shows like "Homeland," "The Blacklist" and the critically acclaimed FX series "The Americans."

"The Americans" stars Keri Russell and Matthew Rhys who play sleeper KGB agents posing as an average American married couple with children living the American dream in suburban Washington D.C. The show is set in the 1980s during the Reagan-era Cold War. It's definitely a show worth checking out. Unfortunately, "The Americans" is in it's sixth and final season.

Check out The Americans from the Library

Novels for Fans of the Television Series The Americans

	Need to Know by Karen Cleveland Working to uncover Russian sleeper cells in the US, Vivian Miller, a CIA counterintelligence analyst, stumbles on a secret dossier of deep-cover agents within country that threatens everything that matters to her. Also available in Large Print, Audio, eBook and eAudio.
Red Sparrow by Jason Matthews Drafted against her will to serve the regime of Vladimir Putin as an intelligence seductress, Dominika Egorova is assigned to operate against first-tour CIA officer Nathaniel Nash, with whom she engages in a charged effort of deception and tradecraft before a forbidden attraction threatens their careers and the security of America's most valuable mole in Moscow. Also available in Large Print, Audio, eBook and eAudio.
	Red Star Falling by Brian Freemantle Landing in the custody of a Russian RSB that would eagerly exploit him for exposing a triple agent, MI5 spy Charlie Muffin struggles to survive and discern the fate of his family while British intelligence forces engage in contentious infighting to discover who revealed Charlie's identity.
The Company by Robert Littell A novel of Cold War espionage traces the struggles of two generations of CIA operatives fighting Communism and battling one another in the complex world of international intrigue.
	Leaving Berlin by Joseph Kanon Caught in the McCarthy anti-Communist investigations because of his prewar politics, a young Jewish writer who fled the Nazis to America makes a desperate bargain with the fledgling CIA to work as a spy in a decimated Berlin. Also available in Audio, eBook and eAudio.
The Expats by Chris Pavone Newly arrived in Luxembourg, mother and expat Kate Moore suspects that another American couple are not who they claim to be and as her paranoia grows, she becomes increasingly terrified that her own past is catching up with her. Also available in Large Print, Audio, eBook and eAudio.
	The Spy Game by Georgina Harding Years after their German refugee mother disappears on the same day the media releases a story about a spy family, Anna and her brother, Peter, struggle to sort out facts and lies about their mother's identity and wonder if she had a secret life.
You Are One of Them by Elliott Holt Traces the friendship between all-American girl Jenny and Sarah, the shy daughter of troubled parents, during the height of the Cold War, a bond that is nearly shattered by Jenny's unexpected fame and plane crash death that Sarah learns a decade later might have been a hoax. Also available in Audio and eAudio.