Does anyone know of any Soviet espionage novels? The big dumb war nerd in me is wondering if there’s a Soviet equivalent of Tom Clancy, like where someone from the KGB goes and convinces a US submarine to defect in order to prevent a nuclear attack on Cuba

  • Mardoniush [she/her]
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    3 years ago

    Rendezvous with a spy is about elite high tech Polish counter spies against definitely not James Bond.

    Starling and Lyre is 1970s film about two former ww2 spies and lovers brought back to Germany to prevent a dastardly US plot to shatter the Eastern bloc by forming...a European Union! Notable for starring a woman in her 70s as a glamourous romantic lead.

    Comrade detective is a modern satire of 80s american films, but might as well be soviet era.

    Also the Osterns are all great "White Sun of the Desert" (which is set in the russian civil war) and also "The sons of the great bear" which is a reverse western where Native Americans (cast with eastern bloc actors of various races) beat the living shit out of racist troops.

    EDIT: I just realise I did movies not novels.