Espionage & secret services books

The thrilling true account of how a CIA agent and Arab-American patriot, Nada Prouty, was falsely accused of working...  Read More >>

A penetrating investigation into how the KGB rose from the ashes of the Soviet Union and reinvented itself at the...  Read More >>

A career of nearly three decades with the CIA and the National Intelligence Council showed Paul R. Pillar that intelligence...  Read More >>

Ten years after 9/11, the least reformed part of America's intelligence system is not the CIA or FBI but the US...  Read More >>

A former top-level National Security Agency insider goes behind the headlines to explore America's next great battleground:...  Read More >>

To what extent did America's best intelligence analysts grasp the rising threat of Islamist radicalism? Who tried...  Read More >>

This thorough, fascinating, and revelatory account draws on a wealth of archival materials never before seen by...  Read More >>

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This 2005 Pulitzer Prizewinning work details the secret history of the CIA's role in Afghanistan, the rise of the...  Read More >>

A stunning narrative account of the mysterious Jordanian who penetrated both the inner circle of al-Qaeda and the...  Read More >>

How the West's greatest spy in Asia tried to stop the new American way of war--and the steep price he paid for failing...  Read More >>

This 2005 Pulitzer Prizewinning work details the secret history of the CIA's role in Afghanistan, the rise of the...  Read More >>

The astonishing story of how the British codebreakers of Bletchley Park cracked the Nazi Enigma cyphers, cutting...  Read More >>

In his own exciting account, Garbo recalls his career. A fantastic addition to the Dialogue Espionage Classics series....  Read More >>

This compilation of espionage humor is based on the author's thirty-three years with the CIA as an analyst, operations...  Read More >>

This is the story of how a small group of men, with a frightening mix of delusion and calculation, rose from a tormented...  Read More >>

The product of painstaking research and countless interviews, A High Price offers a nuanced, definitive historical...  Read More >>

The authoritative survey of the U.S. intelligence community, now thoroughly updated to reflect the current state...  Read More >>

After Leaning to One Side traces the rise and fall of the Sino-Soviet alliance between 1949 and 1973, emphasizing...  Read More >>

Rovner explores the complex interaction between intelligence and policy and shines a spotlight on the problem of...  Read More >>

A trenchant exploration of how security and counter-terrorism practices are not only eroding civil liberties, but...  Read More >>

"Guerrilla warfare is essentially a political war. Therefore, its area of operations exceeds the territorial limits...  Read More >>

Originally published: New York: Free Press, 2008.  Read More >>

A shocking examination of the out-of-control national secruity apparatus built in response to the terrorist attacks...  Read More >>

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