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George Tenet · 549 pages
Tenet's memoir of his life at the CIA--a revelatory look at the inner workings of America's top intelligence agency and its dealings with national leaders at home and abroad. Tenet illuminates how the country was prepared--and not prepared--to deal with a world full of new and deadly threats. Beginning with his installation as Director in 1997, he unfolds the events that led up to 9/11: his declar
Inside the Jihad: My Life with Al Qaeda
Omar Nasiri · 337 pages
A Moroccan operative for British and French intelligence describes his time undercover inside the fundamentalist group Al Qaeda, from Islamist cells in Belgium to the training camps of Afghanistan and radical mosques in London.
See No Evil: The True Story of a Ground Soldier in the CIA's War on Terrorism
Robert B. Baer · 306 pages
Operation Dark Heart: Spycraft And Special Ops On The Frontlines Of Afghanistan- And The Path To Victory
Anthony Shaffer · 320 pages
The Outsider: My Life in Intrigue
Frederick Forsyth · 332 pages
"From Frederick Forsyth, the grand master of international suspense, comes his most intriguing story ever--his own"-- He was the RAF's youngest pilot at the age of nineteen, barely escaped the wrath of an arms dealer in Hamburg, got strafed by a MiG during the Nigerian civil war; the Stasi arrested him, the Israelis feted him, the IRA threatened him. And that's just for starters. Forsyth has been
Ghost: Confessions of a Counterterrorism Agent
Fred Burton · 276 pages
For decades, Fred Burton, a key figure in international counterterrorism and domestic spycraft, has secretly been on the front lines in the fight to keep Americans safe around the world. Now, in this hard-hitting memoir, Burton emerges from the shadows to reveal who he is, what he has accomplished, and the threats that lurk unseen except by an experienced, world-wise few.In the mid-eighties, the i
Against All Enemies
Richard A. Clarke · 336 pages
The Triple Agent: The al-Qaeda Mole who Infiltrated the CIA
Joby Warrick · 248 pages
This work is a narrative account of the mysterious Jordanian who penetrated both the inner circle of al-Qaeda and the highest reaches of the CIA, with a devastating impact on the war on terror. In December 2009, a group of the CIA's top terrorist hunters gathered at a secret base in Khost, Afghanistan, to greet a rising superspy: Humam Khalil al-Balawi, a Jordanian double agent who infiltrated the
One Nation Under Blackmail, Vol. 1: The Sordid Union Between Intelligence and Crime that Gave Rise to Jeffrey Epstein
Whitney Alyse Webb · 544 pages
The Spy Who Loved: The Secrets and Lives of Christine Granville
Clare Mulley · 453 pages
Explores the life and career of one of Britain's most daring and highly decorated special agents, whose gathered intelligence and courage provided a significant contribution to the Allied war effort in World War II.
Between Silk and Cyanide: A Codemaker's War 1941-1945
Leo Marks · 613 pages
The Special Operations Executive (SOE), a British WW2 group infiltrating Reich-dominated Europe, had during the War's early and middle years a continuing problem in certain parts of France. They would train new agents, drop them into French territory, note their contact with a local agent... and they were lost, presumed captured or killed. Two things needed to happen fast: first, a new network h
Good Hunting: An American Spymaster's Story
Jack Devine, Vernon Loeb · 324 pages
A CIA veteran with extensive experience in covert operations presents a guide to the art of spycraft while illuminating the CIA's essential role, sharing a cautionary message about its recent transition toward paramilitary activities.
The Way of the Knife: The CIA, a Secret Army, and a War at the Ends of the Earth
Mark Mazzetti · 400 pages
An account of the transformation of the CIA and America's special operations forces into man-hunting and killing machines in the world's dark spaces: the new American way of war.
The Spy Wore Red
Aline, Countess of Romanones · 326 pages
The Good Spy: The Life and Death of Robert Ames
Kai Bird · 448 pages
Drawing on extensive interviews with Ames' widow and quotes from his private letters, a Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer presents a brilliant narrative of the making of America's most influential and effective intelligence officer in the Middle East. The Good Spy is Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer Kai Bird's compelling portrait of the remarkable life and death of one of the most important oper
Agent Storm: My Life Inside al Qaeda and the CIA
Morten Storm · 320 pages
The Company We Keep: A Husband-and-Wife True-Life Spy Story
Robert B. Baer, Dayna Baer · 312 pages
Inside the CIA, Robert Baer was known as perhaps the best operative working the Middle East. But if his career was everything a spy might aspire to, his personal life was a brutal illustration of everything a spy is asked to sacrifice--he had few non-work friendships, his prolonged absences destroyed his marriage, and he felt intense guilt at spending so little time with his children. Dayna Willia
A Time to Betray: The Astonishing Double Life of a CIA Agent Inside the Revolutionary Guards of Iran
Reza Kahlili · 352 pages
This true spy thriller reveals the inner workings of the notorious Revolutionary Guards of Iran, as witnessed by an Iranian man inside their ranks who spied for the American government. It is a human story, a chronicle of family and friendships torn apart by a terror-mongering regime, and how the adult choices of three childhood mates during the Islamic Republic yielded divisive and tragic fates.
Behind Enemy Lines: The True Story of a French Jewish Spy in Nazi Germany
Marthe Cohn, Taylor Holden · 304 pages
"Behind Enemy Lines is Marthe Cohn's memoir of a time and place that has mesmerized the world for more than half a century. But at its heart it is the tale of an ordinary human being who, under extraordinary circumstances, became the hero her country needed her to be."--BOOK JACKET.
By Way of Deception: The Making of a Mossad Officer
Victor Ostrovsky, Claire Hoy · 371 pages
The first time the Mossad came calling, they wanted Victor Ostrovsky for their assassination unit, the kidon. He turned them down. The next time, he agreed to enter the grueling three-year training program to become a katsa, or intelligence case officer, for the legendary Israeli spy organization. *By Way of Deception* is the explosive chronicle of his experiences in the Mossad, and of two decades
Witness
Whittaker Chambers · 808 pages
The moving autobiography and reflective meditation of a communist spy who became a Christian and, to the scorn of the intellectual establishment, witnessed to God's grace.
Aquarium: The Career and Defection of a Soviet Military Spy
Viktor Suvorov · 416 pages
"We have a very simple rule. It's a rouble to get in, but two to get out." Thus begins the extraordinary chronicle of Viktor Suvorov's early preferment within the Soviet Army which brought him to Vienna as a spy in military intelligence and ended in his defection to the West. Suvorov's path into espionage was a long one, and not one he chose for himself. Throughout this astonishing record of li