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Edward Snowden
2014 · 2021 edition
256 pages
The most popular intelligence & espionage books
Intelligence and espionage books tell the true stories of spies and secret services. Double agents, code-breakers, covert operations and famous betrayals are reconstructed from archives and interviews. If you enjoy spy novels, the real history is often stranger and just as gripping.
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Chaos
Tom O'Neill
2019 · 2020 edition
521 pages
Agent Zigzag The True Wartime Story of Eddie Chapman
Ben Macintyre, Dafnah Ben-Yosef
2007 · 2016 edition
400 pages
The Men Who Stare at Goats
Jon Ronson
2004 · 2006 edition
128 pages
The Jakarta Method Washington's Anti-Communist Crusade and the Mass Murder Program that Shaped Our World
Vincent Bevins
Published 2020
320 pages
Bloodlands
Timothy Snyder, Jesús de Cos Pinto
Published 2010
524 pages
Ghost Wars The Secret History of the CIA, Afghanistan and Bin Laden
Steve Coll
2004 · 2005 edition
712 pages
Agent Sonya Moscow's Most Daring Wartime Spy
Ben Macintyre
Published 2020
377 pages
Black Flags The Rise of ISIS
Joby Warrick
2015 · 2016 edition
344 pages
The Billion Dollar Spy
David Emanuel Hoffman, David E. Hoffman
Published 2015
336 pages
13 Hours The Inside Account of What Really Happened In Benghazi
Mitchell Zuckoff
Published 2014
352 pages
Legacy of Ashes The History of the CIA
Tim Weiner
Published 2007
702 pages
The Woman Who Smashed Codes A True Story of Love, Spies, and the Unlikely Heroine Who Outwitted America's Enemies
Jason Fagone
Published 2017
464 pages
A Spy Among Friends Kim Philby and the Great Betrayal
Ben Macintyre
Published 2014
368 pages
No Place to Hide Edward Snowden, the NSA, and the U.S. Surveillance State
Glenn Greenwald
Published 2014
259 pages
SEAL Team Six Memoirs of an Elite Navy SEAL Sniper
Howard E. Wasdin, Stephen Templin
2011 · 2012 edition
368 pages
Argo How the CIA and Hollywood Pulled Off the Most Audacious Rescue in History
Antonio J. Mendez, Matt Baglio
2012 · 2013 edition
320 pages
George Washington's Secret Six The Spy Ring that Saved the American Revolution
Brian Kilmeade, Don Yaeger
Published 2013
235 pages
Operation Mincemeat How a Dead Man and a Bizarre Plan Fooled the Nazis and Assured an Allied Victory
Ben Macintyre
Published 2010
400 pages
Life and death in Shanghai
Nien Cheng
Published 1986
496 pages
Hegemony Or Survival America's Quest for Global Dominance
Noam Chomsky
2003 · 2004 edition
300 pages
East West Street On the Origins of Genocide and Crimes Against Humanity
Philippe Sands
2016 · 2017 edition
464 pages
Stasiland
Anna Funder
Published 2004
304 pages
All the Shah's Men An American Coup and the Roots of Middle East Terror
Stephen Kinzer
2003 · 2004 edition
272 pages