I recently posted a list of 60 extraordinary political novels. Immediately afterwards, of course, ones that were omitted came to mind. Adding to the list:
- Life and Fate by Vasily Grossman
- The Quiet American by Graham Greene
- The Joke by Milan Kundera
- Uhuru by Robert Ruark
- Something of Value by Robert Ruark
- The White House Mess by Christopher Buckley
- The White Tiger by Aravind Adiga
- Harry's Game by Gerald Seymour
- Birds Without Wings by Louis de Bernieres
- Berlin Stories by Christopher Isherwood
- The Time of the Assassins by Godfrey Blunden
- Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
- The Last Supper by Charles McCarry
- The Tears of Autumn by Charles McCarry
- Lucky Bastard by Charles McCarry
- The Day of The Jackal by Frederick Forsyth
- The Leopard by Giuseppe Di Lampedusa
- Burmese Days by George Orwell
- Cry the Beloved Country by Alan Paton
- An Operational Necessity by Gwyn Griffin
- The Spy Who Came in from the Cold by John LeCarre
- Burr by Gore Vidal
- Europe Central by William T. Vollmann
- A Good Man in Africa by William Boyd
- A Small Town in Germany by John LeCarre
- Barchester Towers by Anthony Trollope
- White Teeth by Zadie Smith
- Flashman in the Great Game by George MacDonald Fraser
- Wolves Eat Dogs by Martin Cruz Smith
- The Little World of Don Camillo by Giovanni Guareschi
- The Raj Quartet by Paul Scott
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