Espionage & Secret Services

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...

In this new biography, published to coincide with the 100th anniversary of her execution, Mata Hari is revealed in all of her flawed eccentricity; ...

SOE agent Violette Szabó was one of the most incredible women who operated behind enemy lines during the Second World War. The daughter of an Engli...

When HMS Laurentic sank in 1917, few knew what cargo she was carrying, and the Admiralty wanted to keep it that way. After all, broadcasting that t...

Signal intelligence is the most secret, and most misunderstood, weapon in the modern espionage arsenal. As a reliable source of information, it is ...

An academic biography of Colonel David de Crespigny Smiley and his intimate involvement in British secret service operations This book illuminates ...