The Night Manager - John LeCarre

 Another great book.  This time the focus is the international trade in illegal weapons and its links to the narco-mafia of Central and South America and also to the big banks of Europe and the U. S.

The Honourable Schoolboy - John LeCarre

Second novel in the Smiley series.  Set mostly in Hong Kong.  Focus on Cold War games, gun running and the unfolding of the proxy Cold War in various countries in the Far East.

Transcription - Kate Atkinson

A spy novel set during WW2 and the early years of the Cold War.  Loosely built around the double agent revelations that actually occurred in MI5 during the 50s and 60s.  Better written than the other book I tried by her.  The ending comes as quite a surprise, but mostly because there seems to be almost nothing hinting at in the course of the story.