Espionage & Secret Services

The SR-71 Blackbird is an iconic aircraft that has come to symbolize America's technological superiority during the Cold War. Using recently declas...

Everyone knows the story of Enigma and secret codebreaking in the Second World War: the triumph of Bletchley Park over world-class cipher technolog...

ELYESA BAZNA WAS THE HIGHEST-PAID SPY IN HISTORY.Working for the British ambassador in Ankara in 1943, Bazna photographed top-secret documents and ...

A compelling real-life thriller, full of passion, free of writerly fuss, woven from the most intractable archival cats cradle imaginable. Simon Ing...

London, 1716. Revenge is a dish best served ice-coldAn immersive, action-packed thriller with intrigue in the air and threats around every corner T...

What pushed Blunt, Burgess, Cairncross, Maclean and Philby into Soviet hands? With access to recently released papers and other neglected...

The most detailed and comprehensive examination to show how tiny Israel grew to be a global civil and military cyber power and offer the first deta...

Previously published as The BidThe prisoner who wakes up in a box miles from anywhere.The jailer who doesnt question his job.The shipment of drones...

June 1940. Britain is Europe's final bastion of freedom - and Hitler's next target. But not everyone fears a Nazi invasion. In factories, offices a...

The United States maintains defense ties with as many as 60 countries, which not only enables its armed forces to maintain command globally and to ...

Uncertainty surrounds every major decision in international politics. Yet there is almost always room for reasonable people to disagree about what ...

British leaders use spies and Special Forces to interfere in the affairs of others discreetly and deniably. Since 1945, MI6 has spread misinformati...

All democracies have had to contend with the challenge of tolerating hidden spy services within otherwise relatively transparent governments. Democ...

The ultimate, comprehensive guide to official country data and statistics, from the worlds most sophisticated intelligence-gathering organisation. ...

The complete story of how the German Enigma codes were broken. Perfect for fans of THE IMITATION GAME, the new film on Alan Turing's Enigma code, s...

In wartime Ireland, an Englishman and a German each need the other to betray his country. And if the nationalist firebrands get their way, they may...

Described by a former senior Intelligence official as a long-term thorn in the side of the intelligence establishment, Richard Norton-Taylor reveal...

Part biography, part forensic jigsaw puzzle, part cold-case detective investigation, The Eagle in the Mirror is the story of Charles Howard 'Dick' ...

THE SUNDAY TIMES TOP TEN BESTSELLEREdward Snowden, the man who risked everything to expose the US governments system of mass surveillance, reveals ...

Gordon Corera uses declassified documents and extensive original research to tell the story of MI14(d) and the Secret Pigeon Service f...

A legal analyst for NPR, NBC, and CNN delves into the facts surrounding what has been called the worst intelligence disaster in U.S. history: the c...

A revealing, sometimes sinister and often hilarious look at the gadgets and devices devised to help spies in their profession. Spies claim that th...

The spy novel has, over the past hundred years, become one of the most popular literary genres. The best exponents have become household names, as ...

This is the first biography of an intrepid young French woman, Lily Sergueiew, who led an adventurous life and became famous as one of the five D-D...

THE SUNDAY TIMES TOP TEN BESTSELLERDiscover the incredible true story of WW2's most extraordinary spy - from the bestselling author of The Spy and ...

The riveting story of the hundred-year intelligence war between Russia and the West with lessons for our new superpower conflict with China'A maste...

The riveting story of the hundred-year intelligence war between Russia and the West with lessons for our new superpower conflict with China'A maste...

Esref Kuscubasi remains controversial in Turkey over fifty years after his death. Elsewhere the man sometimes called the 'Turkish Lawrence of Arabi...

'One of the biggest intelligence coups in recent years' The TimesFor years KGB operative Vasili Mitrokhin risked his life hiding top-secret materia...

Diana Rowden was a woman of the finest character. As an agent with the Special Operations Executive (SOE), she was dropped into France alongside No...

For Winston Churchill the men and women at Bletchley Park were the geese the laid the golden eggs , providing important in...

In the 1920s, many in the British establishment became convinced that their way of life was being threatened by the new Soviet state. The British g...

The old Farsi expression summed it up: Under every leaf you will find an Englishman This is the story of the shadowy Intelligence Division of th...