A Female James Bond

 The Traitor by Ava Glass is one in a series of spy stories.  Instead of James Bond, it's Emma Makepeace.  This is my second book written by Ava Glass.  They are both fast paced. In fact, I was so jazzed from reading, one night, that I had a hard time getting to sleep.  

Emma, this time, has to go undercover as a waitress on a private yacht.  The own is a Russian oligarch.  She there because there's a traitor in her branch and she is to keep her eyes and ears open.  Sounds easy, but remember she's on a yacht and off the grid.  IOW, she on her own.

But she's resourceful and after a few heart stoppers, the leak is revealed and Emma gets away, barely.  This is the definition of an action thriller.

Sabotage

 Creation Lake by Rachel Kushner is a spy thriller.  In places, it's a page turner, although the story took me about 50 pages to figure out what was going on.  Sadie Smith is the protagonist.  She is a spy, hired to cause trouble.  

In her current job, she has infiltrated a group of environmental farmers.  Big agriculture wants to use the neighborhood's water supplies to use to irrigate their mega-corporation farms.  

In order to accomplish this, she becomes the lover of an old friend of one of the leader's.  This gets her in.  Once she learns their plans, she instigates trouble for a politician.  

She's lucky in so many instances.  Too many, in fact.  She figures that it's time to get out before her luck runs out.  She does successfully disappear out of sight.