Set in late-19th-century London, the novel follows an agent involved in espionage for an unnamed foreign power amid a small circle touched by anarchist agitation. The book traces the effects of political plotting and covert operations on ordinary lives, especially relationships marked by dependency and vulnerability.

Set in a near-future urban milieu, the story follows a drug-damaged computer hacker recruited by a team — including a battle-hardened ex-soldier and a powerful artificial intelligence — to pull off a high-stakes digital heist.

A tightly plotted political thriller about a professional assassin hired by a dissident French paramilitary group to carry out a high-profile killing. The book sets up a procedural duel between the lone contractor's meticulous preparations and the official security forces racing to identify and stop him.

An anonymous narrator, a North Vietnamese mole embedded in the South Vietnamese army, recounts life after the fall of Saigon while living among a South Vietnamese exile community in the United States.

A Jesuit-led mission makes contact with an alien civilization and returns with consequences that force survivors to reckon with faith, morality, and trauma. The novel frames its central pressure around human responses—religious, ethical, and personal—to an otherworldly meeting and the costs that follow.

A woman who has left a life tied to intelligence work is living overseas when a chain of events forces secrets from her past back into play, putting family and identity at risk.

An aging, small-time Boston criminal and informant navigates deals, betrayals, and legal pressure within the city's Irish-American underworld. The novel focuses on his day-to-day interactions, the negotiations between criminals and law enforcement, and the consequences of compromised loyalties.

Presented through a collage of documents, memoir excerpts, and alternate accounts, the novel orients on a secretive, immensely wealthy financier and the contested stories about him and his wife.

A first-person account by a British journalist in 1950s Vietnam focuses on his entanglement with an earnest young American and a Vietnamese woman, set against the collapse of French colonial rule and the rise of early U.S. involvement.

Set at a small, elite liberal-arts college, the novel follows a tight group of Classics students whose scholarly intensity and social isolation lead to a violent rupture.

A speculative rupture reshapes a community and forces characters to make urgent ethical and practical decisions as they adapt.

An astronaut wakes with amnesia aboard a stranded spacecraft and must piece together who he is and why he's on a one-way mission to avert an extinction-level threat to Earth.