The CIA Book Club
Charlie English
Published 2025
384 pages
The most popular intelligence & espionage books of 2025
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 2025.
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Allan Pinkerton
Rhodri Jeffreys-Jones
Published 2025
328 pages
Shadow Cell An Insider Account of America's New Spy War
Andrew Bustamante, Jihi Bustamante
Published 2025
272 pages
The JFK Conspiracy The Secret Plot to Kill Kennedy—and Why It Failed
Brad Meltzer, Josh Mensch
2025 · 2026 edition
304 pages
Secret Agents of Honor Bold Spies of World War II
Matthew K. Manning
Published 2025
48 pages
The Last Secret Agent My Life as a Spy Behind Nazi Lines
Pippa Latour, Jude Dobson
Published 2025
304 pages
An O.S.S. Secret Agent Behind Enemy Lines The Second World War Exploits of Lieutenant Leif Bangsbøll
Brook G Bangsbøll
Published 2025
336 pages
Chasing Shadows Cyber Espionage, Subversion, and the Global Fight for Democracy
Ronald J. Deibert
2025 · 2026 edition
464 pages
Terrorism Challenges in the Indo-Pacific
Andrew T. H. Tan, Julian Droogan, Nell Bennett
Published 2025
125 pages
Watching the Jackals Prague's Covert Liaisons with Cold War Terrorists and Revolutionaries
Daniela Richterova
Published 2025
376 pages
The Mission The CIA in the 21st Century
Tim Weiner
Published 2025
464 pages
Project Mind Control Sidney Gottlieb, the CIA, and the Tragedy of MKULTRA
John Lisle
Published 2025
304 pages
The CIA World Factbook 2025-2026
Central Intelligence Agency
Published 2025
1136 pages
The Determined Spy The Turbulent Life and Times of CIA Pioneer Frank Wisner
Douglas Waller
Published 2025
656 pages
CIA* Manual Psychological Operations in Guerrilla Warfare
Central Intelligence Agency
Published 2025
84 pages
The Triumph of Fear Domestic Surveillance and Political Repression from McKinley to Eisenhower
Patrick G. Eddington
Published 2025
408 pages
Son Of David & The AI Witness
Ross McDade, Grok XAI
Published 2025
132 pages
The Cinderella Front
Paul J. Freeman
Published 2025
56 pages
Operation Jedburgh The Special Forces Jedburgh Teams in Action in Ww2
An Official History
Published 2025
256 pages
Training the Twenty-First Century Special Forces Warrior
Jonathan A. Blake
Published 2025
102 pages
The Next Joint Challenge
Lynn P. Peitz
Published 2025
38 pages
A Life Less Ordinary
Allen Wood
Published 2025
229 pages
Ardennes
Charles Whiting
Published 2025
230 pages
Look or Leap?
National Intelligence University, CDR Kelly Tongol Professor of Practice
Published 2025
56 pages