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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

Spies without Cloaks: The KGB's Successors

By Amy Knight

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

Commando: The Inside Story of Britain's Royal Marines

By Monty Halls

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...

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

By Julia Child, Olivia Potts

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

By Ely, Nigel

CIA: Secrets of 'The Company'

By Farren, Mick

Black Ops: Danny Black Thriller 7

By Ryan, Chris

The Spy Who Changed The World

By Rossiter, Mike

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

By McDonald-Rothwell, Gabrielle

100 Facts Spies

By John Farndon

The Spy Book

By DK

The Watchers: A Secret History of the Reign of Elizabeth I

By Alford, Stephen

The Greatest Treason: The Bizarre Story of Hollis,Liddell and Mountbatten

By Deacon, Richard

Philby: The Life and Views of the K.G.B.Masterspy

By Knightley, Phillip