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Spies without Cloaks: The KGB's Successors

By Amy Knight

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

The Greatest Traitor: The Secret Lives of Agent George Blake

By Roger Hermiston

MI6: Fifty Years of Special Operations

By Stephen Dorril

CIA: Secrets of 'The Company'

By Farren, Mick

Total Surveillance: Investigating the Big Brother World of E-spies, Eavesdroppers and CCTV

By Parker, John

The Elephant to Hollywood: The Autobiography

By Caine, Michael

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

Commando: The Inside Story of Britain's Royal Marines

By Monty Halls

The Last Assassin

By Peter Stothard

The Defence of the Realm: The Authorized History of MI5

By Christopher Andrew

Life Under Fire: How to Build Inner Strength and Thrive Under Pressure

By Jason Fox

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

By Julia Child, Olivia Potts