Espionage category: 9265 books
Her Majesty's Spymaster
Elizabeth I, Sir Francis Walsingham, and the Birth of Modern Espionage
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2006
Sir Francis Walsingham’s official title was principal secretary to Queen Elizabeth I, but in fact this pious, tight-lipped Puritan was England’s first spymaster. A ruthless, fiercely loyal civil servant, Walsingham worked brilliantly behind the scenes to foil Elizabeth’s rival Mary Queen of...
Trust and Betrayal
Tales of Cold War Espionage
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2014
It is 1957, West Berlin. US Army Captain Eric Vieler is assigned to oversee the identification, vetting, development and deployment of every-day German citizens --- as spies. While the Berlin Wall is not yet a reality, the Cold War tensions between the western allies and the Soviets in East Germany are...
The Mulberry Bush
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2015
A novel of international espionage and personal vengeance from the author Lee Child called “better than John Le Carré.”
Many years ago, a young American spy crossed the wrong people and found himself on the wrong side of Headquarters. He soon fell into a slow, shameful decline of poverty...
The Book of Spies
An Anthology of Literary Espionage
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2003
An anthology of the world’s best literary espionage, selected by a contemporary master of the genre, Alan Furst.
Here is an extraordinary collection of work from some of the finest novelists of the twentieth century. Inspired by the politics of tyranny or war, each of these writers chose...
Cassidy's Run
The Secret Spy War Over Nerve Gas
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2000
Cassidy's Run is the riveting story of one of the best-kept secrets of the Cold War—an espionage operation mounted by Washington against the Soviet Union that ran for twenty-three years. At the highest levels of the government, its code name was Operation shocker.
Lured by a double agent...
The Craft of Intelligence
America's Legendary Spy Master on the Fundamentals of Intelligence Gathering for a Free World
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2006
If the experts could point to any single book as a starting point for understanding the subject of intelligence from the late twentieth century to today, that single book would be Allen W. Dulles's The Craft of Intelligence. This classic of spycraft is based on Allen Dulles's incomparable experience...
THE MYSTERY OF THE GREEN RAY (British Mystery Classic)
A Thrilling Tale of Love, Adventure and Espionage on the Eve of WWI
Language: English
Release Date: May 27, 2017
It is the dawn of The Great War. Young Ronald Ewart is ready to be enlisted, but before he does, he travels to Scotland to visit his fiancée Myra McLeod. While out fishing together, Myra inexplicably loses her sight after witnessing a green flashing light. Her father has an odd experience as well,...
Absolute Honour
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2014
"Jack escapes death more often than James Bond... An exciting romp!" Sunday Telegraph (UK)
Blooded on the battlefields of Canada, fresh from a winter spent in a voluptuous widow's bed, the dashing Jack Absolute has every reason to feel good. And life only gets better when the ship returning...
The Searcher
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2016
An unlikely hero dives into the chaotic madness of Russia and Georgia’s deadly covert conflict, in this rapid-fire tale of corporate espionage gone awry
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The acclaimed author of The Silent Oligarch and The Jackal’s Share, Christopher Morgan Jones returns to a murky world where corporate...
by Ian Slater
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2013
“A first-rate, crisply told adventure story” of espionage, murder, and intrigue on the high seas from the bestselling author of the WWIII novels (The Globe and Mail, Toronto).
The great gold rushes of history pale in comparison to the vast mineral deposits that await discovery below the...
The Spy's Son
The True Story of the Highest-Ranking CIA Officer Ever Convicted of Espionage and the Son He Trained to Spy for Russia
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2015
The true account of the Nicholsons, the father and son who sold national secrets to Russia. “One of the strangest spy stories in American history” (Robert Lindsey, author of The Falcon and the Snowman).
Investigative reporter and Pulitzer Prize finalist Bryan Denson tells the riveting story...
by PC Brian Wilkinson
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2013
Brian, an amateur military enthusiast now tells the story of his father ‘Brian Bulls-eye Wilkinson’, and his personal quest for the truth. A father who he had never known. Romance, patriotism and espionage, a forgotten hero of the second world war, and a father who saved the world.
Brian...
by Derek Lambert
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2017
The landmark first novel by acclaimed Cold War thriller writer Derek Lambert. Derek Lambert’s classic spy novel exposes the truth about the life of the Western community in post Stalin Moscow, and their existence in which tensions and hostility of the Soviet Union sometimes prove intolerable. An...
by William F. Buckley Jr.
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2015
A CIA agent is on trial in the USSR in this New York Times bestseller that “mixes politics, humor, suspense, and ingenious espionage capers” (Publishers Weekly).
The prisoner in the dock is accused of unspeakable crimes against the Soviet Union—charges Blackford Oakes is proud to be guilty...