Espionage & Secret Services

Few professions comprise such an eclectic mix of personalities as that of intelligence. The characteristics required to thrive as a spy ideologica...

The Comet Escape Line tells the story of the most successful escape line of the Second World War. Inspired by the English nurse Edith Cavell, who h...

With a foreword by Robert Grenier, former Director of the CIA's Counterterrorism Center, learn the art of influence from the best salespeople in th...

Gregg L. Michel's Spying on Students focuses on the law enforcement campaign against New Left and progressive student activists in the South during...

An introduction to Pakistan's ISI, which has been both an essential ally and problematic partner of the United States Forged during the tumultuous...

An introduction to Pakistan's ISI, which has been both an essential ally and problematic partner of the United States Forged during the tumultuous...

A unique insiders' account of what CIA intelligence analysts do and why it matters The common perception of a CIA officer is someone who collects ...

A unique insiders' account of what CIA intelligence analysts do and why it matters The common perception of a CIA officer is someone who collects ...

This book provides the first assessment of the performance of three leading European polities in providing estimative intelligence during an era of...

On June 24, 2012, Dr. Shane Truman Todd, a young American engineer, was found hanging in his Singapore apartment, just a week before his scheduled ...

On June 24, 2012, Dr. Shane Truman Todd, a young American engineer, was found hanging in his Singapore apartment, just a week before his scheduled ...

'A compelling history of the dark arts of statecraft... Fascinating' Jonathan Rugman'Rich in anecdote and detail.' The TimesToday's world is in flu...

Investigating the global system of detention centers that imprison asylum seekers and conceal persistent human rights violations  Remote detention ...

Spies for Nippon reveals the remarkable story of Japanese spy rings operating through Spanish embassies and consulates in Britain, America and Aust...

BRIXMIS (The British Commander-in-Chiefs Mission to the Group Soviet Forces of Occupation in Germany) is one of the most little-known elite spying ...

A mesmerizing mix of Charles Bukowski, Hunter S. Thompson, and Philip K. Dick, Chameleo is a true account of what happened in a seedy Southern Cali...

The Spycatcher affair remains one of the most intriguing moments in the history of British intelligence and a pivotal point in the public's relatio...

SHORTLISTED FOR THE COSTA BIOGRAPHY AWARD 'Engrossing as any thriller' Daily Telegraph 'Superb. Meticulously researched, splendidly told, immensel...

From dedicated Wolves fans and journalists Paul Berry and Johnny Phillips, the full appraisal of Wolverhampton Wanderers' past twenty years, publis...

We cannot discount the risk, in light of the lessons of our own history, that at some point in the future, high-level government officials will dec...

In 'this remarkable book' (as intelligence historian Nigel West describes it in his Foreword), the reader will be struck by the vibrancy of history...

This book reveals the development, strategy and extraordinary success of Britains secret services in Francos Spain during the Second World War. The...

Few countries can claim to have endured such a difficult and tortuous history as that of Iraq. Its varied peoples have had to contend with external...

The world of international politics has recently been rocked by a seemingly endless series of scandals involving auditory surveillance: the NSAs wa...

In 2007 Luke Harding arrived in Moscow to take up a new job as a correspondent for the British newspaper the Guardian. Within months, mysterious ag...

A groundbreaking comparative analysis of three understudied cases of intelligence democratization revealing new insights into main barriers to refo...

A groundbreaking comparative analysis of three understudied cases of intelligence democratization revealing new insights into main barriers to refo...

A career of nearly three decades with the CIA and the National Intelligence Council showed Paul R. Pillar that intelligence reforms, especially mea...

The sequel to Nazi Secret Warfare , which portrayed the catastrophic failure of Germany's clandestine services in Persia (Iran) during the Second W...