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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

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

By Julia Child, Olivia Potts

Isolationism: A History of America's Efforts to Shield Itself from the World

By Charles A. Kupchan (Professor of International Affairs and Senior Fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations, Professor of International Affairs and Senior Fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations, The School of Foreign Service and Government Departm...

Commando: The Inside Story of Britain's Royal Marines

By Monty Halls

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

By Jason Fox

The Defence of the Realm: The Authorized History of MI5

By Christopher Andrew

The Last Assassin

By Peter Stothard

Spies without Cloaks: The KGB's Successors

By Amy Knight

MI6: Fifty Years of Special Operations

By Stephen Dorril

The Greatest Traitor: The Secret Lives of Agent George Blake

By Roger Hermiston

Killing Pablo

By Mark Bowden

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

By Keith Jeffery

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

By Sonia Purnell

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

By Damien Lewis

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

By David Talbot

John le Carré: The Biography

By Sisman, Adam

The Secret Heart: John Le Carre: An Intimate Memoir

By Suleika Dawson

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

By Frances Stonor Saunders

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

By Luke Harding

The Putin Corporation: How to Poison Elections

By Yuri Felshtinsky, Vladimir Pribylovsky

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

By Ben Mezrich

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

By Corera, Gordon

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

By Clive Hamilton, Mareike Ohlberg

We Are Bellingcat: An Intelligence Agency for the People

By Eliot Higgins

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

By Malcolm Nance

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

By Catherine Belton