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Explore 24 books like Jack The Ripper by John McIlwain — a handpicked selection united by True Crime, Political, Military, and Historical.

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Titles selected for shared themes, overlapping readership, and similar literary appeal.

The Taking of Jemima Boone Colonial Settlers, Tribal Nations, and the Kidnap that Shaped America — Matthew Pearl

The Taking of Jemima Boone Colonial Settlers, Tribal Nations, and the Kidnap that Shaped America

Themes: True Crime • Political • Military

Law of the Jungle The Hunt for Colombian Guerrillas, American Hostages, and Buried Treasure — John Otis

Law of the Jungle The Hunt for Colombian Guerrillas, American Hostages, and Buried Treasure

Themes: True Crime • Political • Military

The Smart — Sarah Bakewell

Themes: True Crime • Political • Military

The Family Outing A Memoir — Jessi Hempel

The Family Outing A Memoir

Themes: True Crime • Political • Military

Flirting with Danger The Mysterious Life of Marguerite Harrison, Socialite Spy — Janet Wallach

Flirting with Danger The Mysterious Life of Marguerite Harrison, Socialite Spy

Themes: True Crime • Political • Military

Victor Grayson In Search of Britain’s Lost Revolutionary — Harry Taylor

Victor Grayson In Search of Britain’s Lost Revolutionary

Themes: True Crime • Political • Military

My Silent War The Autobiography of a Spy — Kim Philby

My Silent War The Autobiography of a Spy

Themes: True Crime • Political • Military

Codename Intelligentsia The Life and Times of the Honourable Ivor Montagu, Filmmaker, Communist, Spy — Russell Campbell

Codename Intelligentsia The Life and Times of the Honourable Ivor Montagu, Filmmaker, Communist, Spy

Russell Campbell

Themes: True Crime • Political • Military

Nine Lives My Time As MI6’s Top Spy Inside al-Qaeda — Aimen Dean

Nine Lives My Time As MI6’s Top Spy Inside al-Qaeda

Themes: True Crime • Political • Military

The Spy and the Traitor The Greatest Espionage Story of the Cold War — Ben Macintyre

The Spy and the Traitor The Greatest Espionage Story of the Cold War

Themes: True Crime • Political • Military

Flawed Patriot The Rise and Fall of CIA Legend Bill Harvey — Bayard Stockton

Flawed Patriot The Rise and Fall of CIA Legend Bill Harvey

Bayard Stockton

Themes: True Crime • Political • Military

The Wrong Man The Shooting of Steven Waldorf and the Hunt for David Martin — Dick Kirby

The Wrong Man The Shooting of Steven Waldorf and the Hunt for David Martin

Themes: True Crime • Political • Military

Hunting the Jackal A Special Forces and CIA Ground Soldier’s Fifty-Year Career Hunting America’s Enemies — Billy Waugh

Hunting the Jackal A Special Forces and CIA Ground Soldier’s Fifty-Year Career Hunting America’s Enemies

Themes: True Crime • Political • Military

At the Center of the Storm My Years at the CIA — George Tenet

At the Center of the Storm My Years at the CIA

Themes: True Crime • Political • Military

The Betrayal of Anne Frank A Cold Case Investigation — Rosemary Sullivan

The Betrayal of Anne Frank A Cold Case Investigation

Rosemary Sullivan

Themes: True Crime • Political • Military

Operation Rollback America’s Secret War Behind the Iron Curtain — Peter Grose

Operation Rollback America’s Secret War Behind the Iron Curtain

Themes: True Crime • Political • Military

Dead Doubles The Extraordinary Worldwide Hunt for One of the Cold War’s Most Notorious Spy Rings — Trevor Barnes

Dead Doubles The Extraordinary Worldwide Hunt for One of the Cold War’s Most Notorious Spy Rings

Themes: True Crime • Political • Military

The Lion and the Fox Two Rival Spies and the Secret Plot to Build a Confederate Navy — Alexander Rose

The Lion and the Fox Two Rival Spies and the Secret Plot to Build a Confederate Navy

Themes: True Crime • Political • Military

Dead Doubles The Extraordinary Worldwide Hunt for One of the Cold War’s Most Notorious Spy Ring — Trevor Barnes

Dead Doubles The Extraordinary Worldwide Hunt for One of the Cold War’s Most Notorious Spy Ring

Themes: True Crime • Political • Military

Iosi, the Remorseful Spy — Miriam Lewin

Iosi, the Remorseful Spy

Themes: True Crime • Political • Military

Life Undercover Coming of Age in the CIA — Amaryllis Fox

Life Undercover Coming of Age in the CIA

Themes: True Crime • Political • Military

Spy The Inside Story of How the FBI’s Robert Hanssen Betrayed America — David Wise

Spy The Inside Story of How the FBI’s Robert Hanssen Betrayed America

Themes: True Crime • Political • Military

Agent Storm A Spy Inside Al-Qaeda — Morten Storm

Agent Storm A Spy Inside Al-Qaeda

Themes: True Crime • Political • Military

First They Killed My Father A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers — Loung Ung

First They Killed My Father A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers

Themes: True Crime • Political • Military

The 24 books on this list are tied together by themes of True Crime, Political, Military — the same threads that run through Jack The Ripper by John McIlwain. Among the authors featured: Matthew Pearl, John Otis, Sarah Bakewell, Jessi Hempel, and others.

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