The Good Spy The Life and Death of Robert Ames
Kai Bird
2014 · 2015 edition
464 pages
The most popular intelligence & espionage books
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.
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Enemies A History of the FBI
Tim Weiner
2012 · 2013 edition
560 pages
We Are Bellingcat An Intelligence Agency for the People
Eliot Higgins
Published 2021
272 pages
Fair Game
Valerie Plame Wilson
Published 2007
411 pages
The Brothers
Stephen Kinzer, Inc. Blackstone Audio
Published 2013
402 pages
Surprise, Kill, Vanish The Secret History of CIA Paramilitary Armies, Operators, and Assassins
Annie Jacobsen
2019 · 2020 edition
576 pages
Acid Dreams The Complete Social History of LSD
Martin A. Lee & Bruce Shlain; Introduction by Andrei Codrescu
Published 1992
345 pages
For All the Tea in China Espionage, Empire and the Secret Formula for the World's Favourite Drink
Sarah Rose
Published 2009
280 pages
Blowback The Costs and Consequences of American Empire
Chalmers A. Johnson
2000 · 2001 edition
288 pages
Spycatcher The Candid Autobiography of a Senior Intelligence Officer
Peter Wright, Paul Greengrass, Copyright Paperback Collection (library Of Congress)
1987 · 1988 edition
489 pages
Cult of the Dead Cow How the Original Hacking Supergroup Might Just Save the World
Joseph Menn
2019 · 2025 edition
288 pages
Masters Of Death
Richard Rhodes
Published 2002
368 pages
The Company We Keep
Robert B. Baer, Dayna Baer
Published 2011
320 pages
12 Strong The Declassified True Story of the Horse Soldiers
Doug Stanton
Published 2017
393 pages
The Last Goodnight
Howard Blum
2016 · 2017 edition
528 pages
Avenue of Spies A True Story of Terror, Espionage, and One American Family's Heroic Resistance in Nazi-occupied France
Alex Kershaw
Published 2015
286 pages
The Finish The Killing of Osama Bin Laden
Mark Bowden
2012 · 2013 edition
276 pages
Kill Bin Laden A Delta Force Commander's Account of the Hunt for the World's Most Wanted Man
Dalton Fury
2008 · 2009 edition
368 pages
Bridge of Spies A True Story of the Cold War
Giles Whittell
Published 2010
304 pages
17 Carnations
Andrew Morton
2015 · 1600 edition
384 pages
Killing Hope US Military and CIA Interventions Since World War II
William Blum
1995 · 2022 edition
472 pages
Gideon's Spies The Secret History of the Mossad
Thomas Gordon
1999 · 2004 edition
382 pages
The First Family Detail Secret Service Agents Reveal the Hidden Lives of the Presidents
Ronald Kessler
Published 2014
258 pages
Ethel Rosenberg An American Tragedy
Anne Sebba
Published 2021
320 pages