Espionage Aficionados discussion

Does anyone have book or author suggestions focusing on the Middle East? I've read Body of Lies and started Increment both by David Ignatius and they are OK. Not 5-star by any means. Thanks in advance

'The Wayward Spy' highlights a clandestine arms deal between Russia and Syria. It's 1992.A former journalist is recruited by MI6 to purloin the details of the multi-billion dollar deal--all made easy, the spymasters hope, by the journalist's college friendship with a Syrian who has now been appointed chief arms procurer for the Syrian defence foces. A sweet Palestinian-born operative helps to seduce Vaux into doing his best for queen and country but her motives are complex if not pivotal to an intriguing plot whose climax is not apparent until the last final pages.

Not really spy stories but Zoe Ferraris' books which take place in Saudi Arabia are excellent crime fiction novels. Finding Nouf and City of Veils: A Novel.

Found this on goodreads:

In The Watchmen John Altman delivers his most gripping thriller yet. An Al Qaeda prisoner named Ali Zattout is moved from Pakistan to a CIA safe house for observation and interrogation. He is smart, cooperative, and thoroughly Westernized -but is he too good to be true? The man who must question him, Dr. Louis Finney, regrets his days spent working for the U.S. Government. Years have passed since he and his mentor performed experiments designed to develop multiple personalities in unsuspecting patients, but only recently have his guilty nightmares begun to subside. Now his mentor appears on Finney's doorstep, terminally ill, asking him to consult for a critically important CIA case.

But the CIA isn't the only group interested in Zattout's information. His capture has aroused concerns at the highest ranks of Al Qaeda. An assassin schooled in ancient arts of meditation and murder is sent to eliminate Zattout before he discloses their secrets. The CIA safe house is as heavily guarded as the secret of its location, but Zattout is not the only traitor within its walls

My new Kindle Book has espionage involving Iraqi and Saddam Hussein's regime. Hope you enjoy.

Three you can try, that are excellent:

The Prince of Bagam Prison by Alex Carr. Set in Morocco, has great colour and works well. Her other book, using Mid-east themes, set in Lisbon and finally in Beirut is great; favourite passage in the middle of the book reaches poetic heights (can't tell you where because I do not want to spoil).

A new publication and excellent as well, particularly with characterization, is Limassol by Yishai Sarid (Europa Editions), which eerily plunges the reader into a world all too real on our newspapers. The moral complexity at the heart of the story left a pang of regret with this reader.

Sorry about that; the title of the second book is The Accidental American.

alec berenson john wells series