The Jakarta Method
Vincent Bevins
Published 2020
320 pages
The most popular intelligence & espionage books of 2020
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. This list shows the ones first published in 2020.
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Agent Sonya Moscow's Most Daring Wartime Spy
Ben Macintyre
Published 2020
377 pages
Putin's People How the KGB Took Back Russia and Then Took On the West
Catherine Belton
2020 · 2022 edition
656 pages
The Unexpected Spy
Jessica Anya Blau, Tracy Walder
Published 2020
272 pages
Becoming Bulletproof Life Lessons from a Secret Service Agent
Evy Poumpouras
2020 · 2021 edition
336 pages
The Ratline
Philippe Sands
2020 · 2021 edition
304 pages
The Quiet Americans Four CIA Spies at the Dawn of the Cold War - a Tragedy in Three Acts
Scott Anderson
2020 · 2022 edition
576 pages
The Scientist and the Spy A True Story of China, the FBI, and Industrial Espionage
Mara Hvistendahl
Published 2020
336 pages
Active Measures The Secret History of Disinformation and Political Warfare
Thomas Rid
2020 · 2021 edition
528 pages
Undaunted My Fight Against America's Enemies, At Home and Abroad
John O'Brennan
2020 · 2022 edition
480 pages
Dark Mirror Edward Snowden and the Surveillance State
Barton Gellman
Published 2020
448 pages
The Spymasters How the CIA Directors Shape History and the Future
Chris Whipple
2020 · 2021 edition
416 pages
Privacy is Power Why and How You Should Take Back Control of Your Data
Carissa Véliz
2020 · 2022 edition
320 pages
Red Line The Unraveling of Syria and America's Race to Destroy the Most Dangerous Arsenal in the World
Joby Warrick
2020 · 2021 edition
346 pages
The Hacker and the State
Ben Buchanan
Published 2020
412 pages
The Indomitable Florence Finch The Untold Story of a War Widow Turned Resistance Fighter and Savior of American POWs
Robert J. Mrazek
2020 · 2022 edition
368 pages
Code Name Madeleine A Sufi Spy in Nazi-Occupied Paris
Arthur J. Magida
2020 · 2021 edition
336 pages
How Spies Think Ten Lessons in Intelligence
David Omand
2020 · 2021 edition
368 pages
The Golden Thread The Cold War and the Mysterious Death of Dag Hammarskjöld
Ravi Somaiya
2020 · 2021 edition
304 pages
The Folly and the Glory
Tim Weiner
Published 2020
352 pages
Dead Doubles
Trevor Barnes
Published 2020
352 pages
Hidden Hand Exposing How the Chinese Communist Party is Reshaping the World
Clive Hamilton, Mareike Ohlberg
2020 · 2021 edition
432 pages
The Good Assassin How a Mossad Agent and a Band of Survivors Hunted Down the Butcher of Latvia
Stephan Talty
Published 2020
304 pages
Rigged America, Russia and 100 Years of Covert Electoral Interference
David Shimer
2020 · 2021 edition
384 pages