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The Spy and the Traitor: The Greatest Espionage Story of the Cold War
Ben Macintyre
4.52 average rating, · 94k ratings
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A Spy Among Friends: Kim Philby and the Great Betrayal
Ben Macintyre
4.20 average rating, · 30.7k ratings
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Agent Zigzag: A True Story of Nazi Espionage, Love, and Betrayal
Ben Macintyre
4.15 average rating, · 21k ratings
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Operation Mincemeat: How a Dead Man and a Bizarre Plan Fooled the Nazis and Assured an Allied Victory
Ben Macintyre
4.04 average rating, · 24.4k ratings
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The Cuckoo's Egg: Tracking a Spy Through the Maze of Computer Espionage
Clifford Stoll
4.28 average rating, · 16.5k ratings
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Agent Sonya: Moscow's Most Daring Wartime Spy
Ben Macintyre
4.16 average rating, · 18.8k ratings
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The Billion Dollar Spy: A True Story of Cold War Espionage and Betrayal
David E. Hoffman
4.24 average rating, · 16.4k ratings
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Mossad: The Greatest Missions of the Israeli Secret Service
Michael Bar-Zohar
4.19 average rating, · 15.7k ratings
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Rise and Kill First: The Secret History of Israel's Targeted Assassinations
Ronen Bergman
4.42 average rating, · 10.3k ratings
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Blind Man's Bluff: The Untold Story of American Submarine Espionage
Sherry Sontag
4.24 average rating, · 11.6k ratings
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The Siege: A Six-Day Hostage Crisis and the Daring Special-Forces Operation That Shocked the World
Ben Macintyre
4.35 average rating, · 9k ratings
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The Devil's Chessboard: Allen Dulles, the CIA, and the Rise of America's Secret Government
David Talbot
4.35 average rating, · 8.8k ratings
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Surprise, Kill, Vanish: The Secret History Of CIA Paramilitary Armies, Operators, And Assassins
Annie Jacobsen
4.31 average rating, · 7.7k ratings
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Hunting Eichmann
Neal Bascomb
4.27 average rating, · 7.1k ratings
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The Pigeon Tunnel: Stories from My Life
John le Carré
4.05 average rating, · 6.8k ratings
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A Man Called Intrepid
William Stevenson
4.29 average rating, · 5.1k ratings
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Wolves at the Door: The True Story Of America's Greatest Female Spy
Judith L. Pearson
4.32 average rating, · 4.5k ratings
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The Zimmermann Telegram
Barbara W. Tuchman
4.05 average rating, · 5.3k ratings
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The Brothers: John Foster Dulles, Allen Dulles & Their Secret World War
Stephen Kinzer
4.15 average rating, · 4.7k ratings
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The Triple Agent: The al-Qaeda Mole who Infiltrated the CIA
Joby Warrick
4.12 average rating, · 4.1k ratings
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Russians Among Us: Sleeper Cells, Ghost Stories, and the Hunt for Putin's Spies
Gordon Corera
4.26 average rating, · 2.8k ratings
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Between Silk and Cyanide: A Codemaker's War, 1941-1945
Leo Marks
4.25 average rating, · 2.7k ratings
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Deep Undercover: My Secret Life and Tangled Allegiances as a KGB Spy in America
Jack Barsky
4.08 average rating, · 2.9k ratings
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The Spy Wore Red
Aline, Countess of Romanones
4.06 average rating, · 2.9k ratings
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