Espionage & Secret Services

In September 1962, John Vassall, a clerk at the Admiralty in London, was unmasked as a Soviet spy. After being photographed in compromising positio...

The incredible true story of the only woman to have worked during the Second World War as a codebreaker at both Bletchley Park and the Pentagon ...

This is the first book of its kind to employ hundreds of Chinese sources to explain the history and current state of Chinese Communist intelligence...

Letty Davenport, the brilliant and tenacious adopted daughter of Lucas Davenport, takes the investigative reins in the newest thriller from #1 best...

Theres no such thing as a former KGB man... 'A gripping story filled with remarkable revelations.' Tom Bower, author of Revenge Agents of Influen...

Filled with quizzes, facts, lists and lots of fill-in fun, this Secret Agent Handbook gives everyone the chance to transform into a sup...

The Second World War Chief of MI6 said Alexander Wilson had 'remarkable gifts as a writer of fiction, and no sense of responsibility in using them!...

New York City has long been a breeding ground for spies, saboteurs, terrorists, and other threats to the nation and its greatest city. Battleground...

In King of Spies, prize-winning journalist and bestselling author of Escape From Camp 14, Blaine Harden, reveals one of the most astonishing - and ...

''Charlotte Dennett has written an excellent book summarizing the geopolitics of the Middle East historically through to current events. . . . This...

In the early 1970s, Sir Maurice Oldfield of the British Secret Service, MI6, embarked upon a decade-long campaign to derail the political career of...

Although Chinas intelligence activities may not have been well documented, they can be traced back to the ancient writings of Sun Tzu, and espionag...

The Cambridge Spies continue to fascinate - but one of them, John Cairncross, has always been more of an enigma than the others. He worked alone an...

The apartheid agent and killer who got away with it all It was in 1972 when the seemingly ordinary Craig Williamson registered at Wits University a...

Richard Norton-Taylor reveals the secrets of his forty-year career as a journalist covering the world of spies and their masters in Whitehall. Ear...

Growing up in Germany, Freddy Mayer witnessed the Nazis rise to power. When he was sixteen, his family made the decision to flee to the United Stat...

In the history of Soviet espionage in America, few people figure more crucially than Harry Gold. A Russian Jewish immigrant who spied for the Sovie...

The dramatic story of a man who stood at the center of British intelligence operations, the ultimate spymaster of World War II: Thomas Kendrick Tho...

A GRIPPING NEW HISTORY OF US PRESIDENTS AND CIA SECRETSEvery day, the President of the United States receives a bespoke, top-secret briefing docume...

*Winner of the European Award for Investigative And Judicial Journalism 2021* *Winner of the Premio Alessandro Leogrande Award for Investigative Jo...

Heavily sourced, crisply written and deeply alarming. The Times  This is a remarkable book with a chilling message. Guardian The Chinese Communis...

A history of Americans who spied against their country and what their stories reveal about national security What's your secret? American Spies p...

Spies and Lies by Alex Joske is a groundbreaking exposé of elite influence operations by Chinas little-known Ministry of State Security. Revealing ...

This is the true story of the Englishman allegedly freed from a French prison after meeting John Amery, the treacherous son of a Cabinet minister, ...

In 193537 America passed several Neutrality Acts, vowing never again to take sides in a European conflict. In 1938 public attitudes changed, with t...

The astonishing, gripping and long-awaited inside story of an ordinary man who became an extraordinary spy.After years of living in semi-isolation,...

When David Morehouse - a highly decorated army officer - was hit by a stray bullet, he began to be plagued with visions and uncontrolled out-of-bod...

The Ghosts of Langley is the story of spymasters, their minions, and the ways in which the Central Intelligence Agency changed the world. These wer...

Hitlers Germany made sustained efforts to inflict a terror campaign on the streets of Britain through the use of secret agents and agents provocate...

Bradley Manning was arrested, imprisoned in solitary confinement for nine months, and court-martialed for leaking nearly half a million classified ...

In the 21st century, more than any other time, US agencies have relied on contractors to conduct core intelligence functions. This book charts the ...

During the Second World War daring and highly unusual missions were mounted by the Special Operations Executive (SOE) - formed on Churchill's order...