Spy, Espionage and Political Thriller recs

Slow Horses by Mick Herron
The Terminal List series by Jack Carr
John LeCarre spy novels
The Day of the Jackal by Frederick Forsythe
Girl With the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larson
Mystic River by Dennis Lehane
Power of the Dog by Don Winslow

John le Carre: Smiley trilogy (The Spy Who Came In From the Cold, Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, and Smiley's People). This is the best.
Len Deighton: (Berlin Game, Mexico Set, and London Match). If you like le Carre, you will like this trilogy too.
Tom Clancy: The Hunt for Red October.
Frederick Forsyth: The Day of the Jackal. Does this one count? Not quite a spy novel.
Ken Follet: Eye of the Needle.
Demille Nelson: The Charm School. Very underrated.

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The Spy And The Traitor

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Came here to post this. Incredible true story and book.

The Parsifal Mosaic is my favorite must read Ludlum novel. It pretty much blew my mind back in the 80s.

"Michael Havelock’s world died on a moonlit beach on the Costa Brava as he watched his partner and lover, double agent Jenna Karas, efficiently gunned down by his own agency. There’s nothing left for him but to quit the game, get out. Then, in one frantic moment on a crowded railroad platform in Rome, Havelock sees Jenna. Racing around the globe in search of his beautiful betrayer, Havelock is now marked for death by both U.S. and Russian assassins, trapped in a massive mosaic of treachery created by a top-level mole with the world in his fist: Parsifal."