The Recruiter Spying and the Lost Art of American Intelligence
Douglas London
Published 2021
418 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.
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Agent Sniper
Tim Tate
Published 2021
320 pages
On Killing Remotely The Psychology of Killing with Drones
Lieutenant Colonel Wayne Phelps (USMC Ret.)
Published 2021
348 pages
The Two Michaels Innocent Canadian Captives and High Stakes Espionage in the US-China Cyber War
Fen Hampson, Michael Blanchfield
Published 2021
275 pages
Mission France The True History of the Women of SOE
Kate Vigurs
Published 2021
301 pages
Spies, Lies, and Exile The Extraordinary Story of Russian Double Agent George Blake
Simon Kuper
Published 2021
278 pages
Flight 149
Stephen Davis
Published 2021
288 pages
The Armchair General Can You Defeat the Nazis?
John Buckley
2021 · 2022 edition
464 pages
The Spy who was left out in the Cold
Tim Tate
Published 2021
398 pages
I, Warbot The Dawn of Artificially Intelligent Conflict
Kenneth Payne
Published 2021
321 pages
The Secret Royals Spying and the Crown, from Victoria to Diana
Rory Cormac, Richard James Aldrich
Published 2021
736 pages
Grey Wars A Contemporary History of U.S. Special Operations
N. W. Collins
Published 2021
304 pages
Spymaster's Prism
Jack Devine
Published 2021
304 pages
Day of the Assassins
Michael Burleigh
Published 2021
560 pages
Agents of Influence Britain's Secret Intelligence War Against the IRA
Aaron Edwards
Published 2021
294 pages
John Stonehouse, My Father The True Story of the Runaway MP
Julia Stonehouse
Published 2021
416 pages
Disruption Inside the Largest Counterterrorism Investigation in History
Aki Peritz
2021 · 2025 edition
410 pages
How China Loses
Luke A. Patey
2021 · 2022 edition
400 pages
Reflections of Alan Turing A Relative Story
Dermot Turing
2021 · 2022 edition
208 pages
Stars and Spies The story of Intelligence Operations
Julius Green, Christopher Andrew
2021 · 2023 edition
352 pages
Urban Warfare in the Twenty-First Century
Anthony King
Published 2021
288 pages
100 Deadly Skills A Navy SEAL's Guide to Crushing Your Enemy, Fighting for Your Life, and Embracing Your Inner Badass
Clint Emerson
Published 2021
326 pages
Battlegroup! The Lessons of the Unfought Battles of the Cold War
Jim Storr
Published 2021
295 pages
A Good Spy Leaves No Trace Big Oil, CIA Secrets, and a Spy Daughter's Reckoning
Anne E. Tazewell
Published 2021
310 pages