This Is How They Tell Me the World Ends A True Story
Nicole Perlroth
2021 · 2022 edition
528 pages
The most popular intelligence & espionage books of 2021
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 2021.
Results
Extraterrestrial The First Sign of Intelligent Life Beyond Earth
Avi Loeb
2021 · 2022 edition
222 pages
Zero Fail The Rise and Fall of the Secret Service
Carol Leonnig
Published 2021
560 pages
Walk in My Combat Boots True Stories from America's Bravest Warriors
Matt Eversmann, Chris Mooney
Published 2021
404 pages
We Are Bellingcat An Intelligence Agency for the People
Eliot Higgins
Published 2021
272 pages
Ethel Rosenberg An American Tragedy
Anne Sebba
Published 2021
320 pages
Countdown Bin Laden The Untold Story of the 247-Day Hunt to Bring the Mastermind of 9/11 to Justice
Chris Wallace, Mitch Weiss
2021 · 2022 edition
368 pages
Fall
John Preston
Published 2021
352 pages
The FBI Way
Frank Figliuzzi
2021 · 2022 edition
272 pages
The Greatest Raid of All
C. E. Lucas Phillips
Published 2021
366 pages
Beyond The Astonishing Story of the First Human to Leave Our Planet and Journey Into Space
Stephen Walker
2021 · 2022 edition
512 pages
The Spymaster of Baghdad A True Story of Bravery, Family, and Patriotism in the Battle Against ISIS
Margaret Coker
Published 2021
309 pages
With My Little Eye The Incredible True Story of a Family of Spies in the Suburbs
Sandra Hogan
Published 2021
240 pages
Sleeper Agent The Atomic Spy in America Who Got Away
Ann Hagedorn
Published 2021
272 pages
X Troop The Secret Jewish Commandos Who Helped Defeat the Nazis
Leah Garrett
2021 · 2022 edition
368 pages
The American War in Afghanistan A History
Carter Malkasian
Published 2021
561 pages
First Casualty The Untold Story of the Battle That Began the War in Afghanistan
Toby Harnden
Published 2021
320 pages
Proof of Life Twenty Days on the Hunt for a Missing Person in the Middle East
Daniel Levin
2021 · 2025 edition
288 pages
Eagle Down
Jessica Donati
Published 2021
320 pages
From Warsaw with Love Polish Spies, the CIA, and the Forging of an Unlikely Alliance
John Pomfret
Published 2021
273 pages
Putin's Playbook Russia's Secret Plan to Defeat America
Rebekah Koffler
Published 2021
432 pages
Spooked The Secret Rise of Private Spies
Barry Meier
Published 2021
323 pages
War of Shadows
Gershom Gorenberg, Fred Berman
Published 2021
496 pages
The Director
Paul Letersky
Published 2021
320 pages