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World War II Thrillers

A Game of Spies by John Altman

In England in 1940, a young sleeper agent named Eva Bernhardt, who has a crucial piece of information and is on the run from the Germans and other enemies, finds herself plunged into a deadly game of ruse and counter-ruse.

  

Jackdaws by Ken Follett

Days before the Allied invasion of Normandy, the all-women operation "Jackdaws" is set to infiltrate Europe's largest telephone exchange. Felicity "Flick" Clariet, a British female operative heads the team; outwits her nemesis; and falls in love with American Paul Chancellor. 

 

Red Gold by Alan Furst

In the Parisian underworld of occupied France, Jean Casson is a target of the Gestapo for running guns to the French Communist Party. 

 

A Code for Tomorrow by John J. Gobbell

Serving on a destroyer as the U.S. Navy engages the Japanese Imperial Navy near the Solomon Islands, Todd Ingram battles his own fears of capture and death and his worries about his sweetheart, army nurse Helen Durand, trapped behind enemy lines in the Philippines. 

 

Fatherland by Robert Harris

In an alternate world 20 years after Nazi victory in WWII, all of Germany is preparing for the grand celebration of the Führer's 75th birthday and a peacemaking visit from U.S. President Joe Kennedy. 

 

Flight of Eagles by Jack Higgins

Born to a German mother and an American father, Max and Harry were separated when their mother took Max to Germany where he became a pilot with the Luftwaffe, while Harry turned into an ace in the RAF. After years apart, they meet again under extraordinary circumstances. 

 

The Master Sniper by Stephen Hunter

Nazis accuse Lieutenant Colonel Repp of an assassination after he has practiced his shooting skills on death camp inmates, and Jim Leets, an American, must identify Repp's new gun. 

 

A Gathering of Saints by Christopher Hyde

During the darkest hours of the Blitz a detective and a psychiatrist race to find a sadistic killer whose calling card is to leave his victims at the site of the next Luftwaffe attack. 

 

Black Cross by Greg Iles

As the world awaits the Allied invasion of Europe, Churchill learns that Nazi scientists have developed a new weapon that could turn the tide for Hitler. 

 

Los Alamos by Joseph Kanon

Civilian intelligence liaison Michael Connolly investigates the murder of a Manhattan Project security officer who reported to J. Robert Oppenheimer.

 

Hart's War by John Katzenbach

Downed B-25 pilot and Harvard Law student Lieutenant Tommy Hart is forced to represent a black soldier accused of killing a fellow POW. As Hart prepares his defense he realizes he and his client have been set up—there is more going on at Stalag Luft 13 than meets the eye. 

 

Hitler's Peace by Philip Kerr

In the aftermath of Stalingrad, Adolph Hitler considers the demands of FDR, Stalin, and Churchill. 

 

The Alibi Club by Francine Mathews

Just before the fall of France, an American lawyer working in the Paris office of an international law firm is murdered in what appears to be a crime of passion. But his killing is a desperate attempt to keep a deadly weapon out of German hands.

 

The Runner by Christopher Reich

Devlin Judge, an American lawyer who's in Europe to participate in the International War Tribunal, picks up the trail of a Nazi Olympic runner and SS member who escaped from an Allied POW camp.

 

The Unlikely Spy by Daniel Silva

Professor Alfred Vicary helps MI5 keep the Nazis from learning England's top-secret plans for the D-Day invasion by taking on his Nazi counterpart, a lovely volunteer in London's hospitals during the Blitz.

 

December 6 by Martin Cruz Smith

Harry Niles, a disreputable American businessman with an unknown agenda, seeks to abandon his life in Tokyo while fleeing to the west on the last flight out before the Pearl Harbor attack.