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The Greatest Traitor: The Secret Lives of Agent George Blake

By Roger Hermiston

Putin's People: How the KGB Took Back Russia and then Took on the West

By Catherine Belton

The Plot to Betray America: How Team Trump Embraced Our Enemies, Compromised Our Security, and How We Can Fix It

By Malcolm Nance

We Are Bellingcat: An Intelligence Agency for the People

By Eliot Higgins

Hidden Hand: Exposing How the Chinese Communist Party is Reshaping the World

By Clive Hamilton, Mareike Ohlberg

Russians Among Us: Sleeper Cells, Ghost Stories and the Hunt for Putin’s Agents

By Corera, Gordon

Once Upon a Time in Russia: The Rise of the Oligarchs and the Greatest Wealth in History

By Ben Mezrich

The Putin Corporation: How to Poison Elections

By Yuri Felshtinsky, Vladimir Pribylovsky

Mafia State: How One Reporter Became an Enemy of the Brutal New Russia

By Luke Harding

Who Paid The Piper?: The CIA And The Cultural Cold War

By Frances Stonor Saunders

The Secret Heart: John Le Carre: An Intimate Memoir

By Suleika Dawson

John le Carré: The Biography

By Sisman, Adam

The Devil's Chessboard: Allen Dulles, the CIA, and the Rise of America's Secret Government

By David Talbot

The Flame of Resistance: American Beauty. French Hero. British Spy.

By Damien Lewis

A Woman of No Importance: The Untold Story of Virginia Hall, WWII's Most Dangerous Spy

By Sonia Purnell

MI6: The History of the Secret Intelligence Service 1909-1949

By Keith Jeffery

Killing Pablo

By Mark Bowden

My Life in France: The life story of Julia Child - 'exuberant, affectionate and boundlessly charming' New York Times

By Julia Child, Olivia Potts

Undercover Agent: How one of SOE's youngest agents helped defeat the Nazis

By Seaman, Mark

Mission France: The True History of the Women of SOE

By Kate Vigurs

Her Finest Hour: The Heroic Life of Diana Rowden, Wartime Secret Agent

By McDonald-Rothwell, Gabrielle

The Spy Who Changed The World

By Rossiter, Mike

Black Ops: Danny Black Thriller 7

By Ryan, Chris

CIA: Secrets of 'The Company'

By Farren, Mick

Fighting for Queen and Country: One Man's True Story of Blood and Violence in the Paras and the SAS

By Ely, Nigel

The Defence of the Realm: The Authorized History of MI5

By Christopher Andrew

MI6: Fifty Years of Special Operations

By Stephen Dorril

Spies without Cloaks: The KGB's Successors

By Amy Knight

The Last Assassin

By Peter Stothard

Commando: The Inside Story of Britain's Royal Marines

By Monty Halls