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The Private Life of Spies: 'Spy-masterful storytelling' Sunday Post

By Alexander McCall Smith

Trinity: The Treachery and Pursuit of the Most Dangerous Spy in History

By Frank Close

The Walls Have Ears: The Greatest Intelligence Operation of World War II

By Helen Fry

Most Secret and Confidential: Intelligence in the Age of Nelson

By Steven E Maffeo, USN (Ret.)

The Ratline: Love, Lies and Justice on the Trail of a Nazi Fugitive

By Philippe Sands, QC

Gideon's Spies: The Secret History of the Mossad

By Gordon Thomas

War in the Shadows: Resistance, Deception and Betrayal in Occupied France

By Patrick Marnham

15 Minutes of Power: The Uncertain Life of British Ministers

By Peter Riddell

The Red Orchestra: Soviet Spy Network Inside Nazi Europe

By V.E. Tarrant

Agent Jack: The True Story of MI5's Secret Nazi Hunter

By Robert Hutton

Trusted Mole: A Soldier's Journey into Bosnia's Heart of Darkness

By Milos Stankovic, Martin Bell, M.P.

Iran on the Brink: Rising Workers and Threats of War

By Andreas Malm, Shora Esmailian

Trading Secrets: Spies and Intelligence in an Age of Terror

By Mark Huband

The Thirty-Nine Steps (Collins Classics)

By Buchan, John

From Biplanes to Fast Jets: A pilot's life in the Royal Air Force 1942-1973

By Ken Aedy

The Spy and the Traitor: The Greatest Espionage Story of the Cold War

By Ben Macintyre

Hitler's Spy Chief: The Wilhelm Canaris Mystery

By Richard Bassett

US Intelligence Community

By Jeffrey T. Richelson

The Peacock and the Sparrow: The Times and Sunday Times Thriller of the Year

By I. S. Berry

Capturing Enigma: How HMS Petard Seized the German Naval Codes

By Stephen Harper

Hess, Hitler and Churchill: The Real Turning Point of the Second World War - A Secret History

By Peter Padfield

A Girl's Own War

By KJ Kelly

The Industrial Espionage Handbook

By Hugo Cornwall

Counter-Intelligence: What the Secret World Can Teach Us About Problem-solving and Creativity

By Robert Hannigan

Covert Capital: Landscapes of Denial and the Making of U.S. Empire in the Suburbs of Northern Virginia

By Andrew Friedman

Simon Menner. Top Secret: Bilder aus den Archiven der Staatssicherheit

By Simon Menner

Confessions of a School Nurse (The Confessions Series)

By Michael Alexander

The Man Who Never Was: The Remarkable True Story of Operation Mincemeat

By Ewen Montagu

Russians Among Us: Sleeper Cells & the Hunt for Putin’s Agents

By Corera, Gordon

Corsican Command: A Dramatic First-hand Account of Clandestine Operations in the Western Mediterranean, 1943-1944

By Patrick Whinney