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The Spy and the Traitor: The Greatest Espionage Story of the Cold War (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as espionage-history)
avg rating 4.51 — 98,547 ratings — published 2018
The Devil's Chessboard: Allen Dulles, the CIA, and the Rise of America's Secret Government (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as espionage-history)
avg rating 4.35 — 9,267 ratings — published 2015
A Spy Among Friends: Kim Philby and the Great Betrayal (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as espionage-history)
avg rating 4.21 — 31,694 ratings — published 2014
The Moscow Rules: The Secret CIA Tactics That Helped America Win the Cold War (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as espionage-history)
avg rating 3.94 — 3,535 ratings — published 2019
Double Cross: The True Story of the D-Day Spies (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as espionage-history)
avg rating 4.00 — 14,596 ratings — published 2012
Spy Catcher: The Candid Autobiography of a Senior Intelligence Officer (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as espionage-history)
avg rating 3.74 — 3,521 ratings — published 1987
Wild Bill Donovan: The Spymaster Who Created the OSS and Modern American Espionage (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as espionage-history)
avg rating 3.77 — 1,472 ratings — published 2011
The Secret War: Spies, Codes and Guerrillas 1939-1945 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as espionage-history)
avg rating 3.85 — 2,765 ratings — published 2015
Operation Mincemeat: How a Dead Man and a Bizarre Plan Fooled the Nazis and Assured an Allied Victory (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as espionage-history)
avg rating 4.04 — 25,074 ratings — published 2010
Ghost: Confessions of a Counterterrorism Agent (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as espionage-history)
avg rating 3.80 — 1,417 ratings — published 2008
No Place to Hide: Edward Snowden, the NSA, and the U.S. Surveillance State (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as espionage-history)
avg rating 4.07 — 15,359 ratings — published 2014
Deep Undercover: My Secret Life and Tangled Allegiances as a KGB Spy in America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as espionage-history)
avg rating 4.08 — 2,910 ratings — published 2017
Legacy of Ashes: The History of the CIA (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as espionage-history)
avg rating 3.96 — 16,332 ratings — published 2007
Defend the Realm: The Authorized History of MI5 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as espionage-history)
avg rating 3.89 — 1,191 ratings — published 2009
The Secret History of MI6 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as espionage-history)
avg rating 3.50 — 584 ratings — published
Body of Secrets: Anatomy of the Ultra-Secret National Security Agency from the Cold War Through the Dawn of a New Century (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as espionage-history)
avg rating 3.92 — 1,853 ratings — published 2001
The World Was Going Our Way: The KGB & the Battle for the Third World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as espionage-history)
avg rating 4.10 — 633 ratings — published 2005
The Puzzle Palace: Inside the National Security Agency, America's Most Secret Intelligence Organization (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as espionage-history)
avg rating 3.90 — 1,367 ratings — published 1982
The Main Enemy: The Inside Story of the CIA's Final Showdown with the KGB (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as espionage-history)
avg rating 4.15 — 1,333 ratings — published 2003
Dark Alliance: The CIA, the Contras, and the Crack Cocaine Explosion (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1 time as espionage-history)
avg rating 4.30 — 2,168 ratings — published 1998
Agent Jack: The True Story of MI5's Secret Nazi Hunter (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as espionage-history)
avg rating 3.72 — 810 ratings — published 2018
Fru Petrovas sko : en rysk spiontragedi i 50-talets Australien (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as espionage-history)
avg rating 3.40 — 5 ratings — published
The Spy in the Archive: How One Man Tried to Kill the KGB (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1 time as espionage-history)
avg rating 3.84 — 719 ratings — published 2025
Deception: Spies, Lies and How Russia Dupes the West (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as espionage-history)
avg rating 3.70 — 417 ratings — published 2012
The Billion Dollar Spy: A True Story of Cold War Espionage and Betrayal (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as espionage-history)
avg rating 4.24 — 16,762 ratings — published 2015
In the President's Secret Service: Behind the Scenes with Agents in the Line of Fire and the Presidents They Protect (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as espionage-history)
avg rating 3.41 — 6,217 ratings — published 2009
KGB Today: The Hidden Hand (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as espionage-history)
avg rating 3.84 — 37 ratings — published 1983
Countering Industrial Espionage (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as espionage-history)
avg rating 0.0 — 0 ratings — published 1982
The Quest for C : Mansfield Cumming and the Founding of the Secret Service (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as espionage-history)
avg rating 3.67 — 36 ratings — published 1999
Spyclopedia: The Comprehensive Handbook of Espionage (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as espionage-history)
avg rating 3.12 — 8 ratings — published 1989
British Intelligence in the Second World War Volume I (HMSO Official Histories Book 1)
by (shelved 1 time as espionage-history)
avg rating 4.04 — 27 ratings — published 1979
Who's Who In Spy Fiction (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as espionage-history)
avg rating 3.00 — 4 ratings — published 1977
Espionage, Terrorism and Subversion in an Industrial Society (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as espionage-history)
avg rating 0.0 — 0 ratings — published
Real Spy World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as espionage-history)
avg rating 3.75 — 12 ratings — published 1975
MI6: British Secret Intelligence Service Operations, 1909-45 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as espionage-history)
avg rating 3.78 — 49 ratings — published 1983
The Fifth Man (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as espionage-history)
avg rating 3.67 — 15 ratings — published
CIA (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as espionage-history)
avg rating 2.71 — 7 ratings — published 1984
KGB: The Secret Works Of Soviet Secret Agents (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as espionage-history)
avg rating 4.08 — 12 ratings — published 1974
MI5: British Security Operations 1909-1945 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as espionage-history)
avg rating 3.72 — 50 ratings — published 1982
The CIA And The Cult Of Intelligence (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as espionage-history)
avg rating 3.92 — 349 ratings — published 1974
By Allen W. Dulles - The Craft of Intelligence: America's Legendary Spy Master on the Fundamentals of Intelligence Gathering in the Free World (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as espionage-history)
avg rating 4.00 — 1 rating — published
Secret Maps: Maps You Were Never Meant to See, from the Middle Ages to Today (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as espionage-history)
avg rating 3.17 — 6 ratings — published
Queen of Cuba: An FBI Agent's Insider Account of the Spy Who Evaded Detection for 17 Years (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as espionage-history)
avg rating 3.75 — 403 ratings — published
Stalin's American Spy: Noel Field, Allen Dulles and the East European Show-Trials (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as espionage-history)
avg rating 3.40 — 5 ratings — published 2014
KGB Alpha Team Training Manual: How the Soviets Trained for Personal Combat, Assassination, and Subversion (Paperback)
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avg rating 0.0 — 0 ratings — published
The Official CIA Manual of Trickery and Deception (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as espionage-history)
avg rating 3.20 — 820 ratings — published 2009
The Defector: The Untold Story of the KGB Agent Who Changed the Cold War and Saved MI5 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as espionage-history)
avg rating 3.81 — 209 ratings — published 2025
The Secret History of the Five Eyes: The Untold Story of the International Spy Network (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1 time as espionage-history)
avg rating 3.77 — 671 ratings — published
The Intelligence Intellectuals: Social Scientists and the Making of the CIA (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as espionage-history)
avg rating 3.95 — 20 ratings — published 2026
Ghost Plane: The True Story of the CIA Torture Program (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as espionage-history)
avg rating 3.82 — 229 ratings — published 2006