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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Blowing Up Ukraine
Cover of Blowing Up Ukraine

Blowing Up Ukraine

Yuri Felshtinsky, Michael Stanchev

Published 2025

304 pages

GSG 9
Cover of GSG 9

GSG 9

Martin Herzog

Published 2025

328 pages