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24 books with the same feel
Include books by the same authorAquarium: 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
The Spy and the Traitor: The Greatest Espionage Story of the Cold War
Ben Macintyre · 364 pages
The Cuckoo's Egg
Clifford Stoll · 356 pages
In the days when the presence of a computer did NOT presume the presence of a network (they used to be freestanding units that could not easily communicate with another system), accounts to use the computer were expensive to maintain and heavily scrutinized by management. When the Accounting staff of Stoll's university employer discovered 75 cents' worth of time used with which no user was associ
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 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
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.
Fair Game: My Life as a Spy, My Betrayal by the White House
Valerie Plame Wilson · 411 pages
The woman at the center of the Bush administration's CIA leak scandal breaks her silence as she describes her role as an undercover CIA operative, her training and experiences, her efforts to protect her children, and her battle with the CIA to reveal the truth.
Master of Disguise
Antonio J. Mendez · 351 pages
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.
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
Sleeping with the Enemy: Coco Chanel, Nazi Agent
Hal Vaughan
Farewell: The Greatest Spy Story of the Twentieth Century
Sergei Kostin, Eric Raynaud · 430 pages
At the Center of the Storm: My Years at the CIA
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
The Spy Wore Red
Aline, Countess of Romanones · 326 pages
The Autobiography Of The Woman The Gestapo Called The White Mouse
Nancy Wake · 206 pages
The Pigeon Tunnel: Stories from My Life
John le Carre
The File: A Personal History
Timothy Garton Ash · 256 pages
In 1978, fresh out of Oxford, Timothy Garton Ash set out for Berlin to see what he could learn from the divided city about freedom and despotism. As he moved from west to east - from Berlin glamour to Berlin danger - the East German secret police, the so-called Stasi, was compiling a secret file on his activities, monitoring his Berlin days and nights and tracking his growing involvement with the
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
Circle of Treason: A CIA Account of Traitor Aldrich Ames and the Men He Betrayed
Sandra Grimes, Jeanne Vertefeuille · 234 pages
Circle of Treason details the authors' personal involvement in the hunt for and eventual identification of a Soviet mole in the CIA during the 1980s and 1990s.
See No Evil: The True Story of a Ground Soldier in the CIA's War on Terrorism
Robert B. Baer · 306 pages
Fifty Dead Men Walking
Martin McGartland · 288 pages
Beyond Belief: My Secret Life Inside Scientology and My Harrowing Escape
Jenna Miscavige Hill, Lisa Pulitzer · 416 pages
Jenna Miscavige Hill was raised to obey. As the niece of the Church of Scientology's leader David Miscavige, she grew up at the center of this highly controversial and powerful organization. But at twenty-one, Jenna made a daring break, risking everything she had ever known and loved to leave Scientology once and for all. Now she speaks out about her life, the Church, and her dramatic escape, goin
Eastern Approaches
Fitzroy MacLean · 576 pages
Eastern Approaches is Maclean's classic, gripping account of the sybaritic delights of diplomatic life, the thrill of remote travel in the then-forbidden zones of Central Asia, and the violence and adventure of world-changing tours in North Africa and Yugoslavia. Maclean is the original British action hero and this is blistering reading.