Mossad: The Greatest Missions of the Israeli Secret Service

The Spy and the Traitor: The Greatest Espionage Story of the Cold War

Ben Macintyre · 364 pages

Dead Wake: The Last Crossing of the Lusitania

Erik Larson · 464 pages

It is a story that many of us think we know but don't, and Erik Larson tells it thrillingly, switching between hunter and hunted while painting a larger portrait of America at the height of the Progressive Era. Full of glamour and suspense, Dead Wake brings to life a cast of evocative characters, from famed Boston bookseller Charles Lauriat to pioneering female architect Theodate Pope to President

Liar, Temptress, Soldier, Spy: Four Women Undercover in the Civil War

Karen Abbott · 536 pages

"The never-before-told story of four real-life women who risked everything to take on a life of espionage during the Civil War"--Provided by publisher.

Blind Man's Bluff: The Untold Story Of American Submarine Espionage

Sherry Sontag, Christopher Drew, Annette Lawrence Drew · 406 pages

George Washington's Secret Six: The Spy Ring That Saved the American Revolution

Brian Kilmeade, Don Yaeger · 205 pages

This book portrays the intelligence agents known as George Washington's secret six, who were recruited by Washington to gather information secretly and contributed to the general's successes in the Revolutionary War. The coauthor is Don Yaeger.

Ghost Wars: The Secret History of the CIA, Afghanistan, and bin Laden from the Soviet Invasion to September 10, 2001

Steve Coll · 728 pages

An account of the CIA's involvement in the covert wars in Afghanistan that fueled Islamic militancy and gave rise to bin Laden's al Qaeda. For nearly the past quarter century, while most Americans were unaware, Afghanistan has been the playing field for intense covert operations by U.S. and foreign intelligence agencies-invisible wars which sowed the seeds of the September 11 attacks and which pro

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.

A Man Called Intrepid

William Stevenson

Bomb: The Race to Build—and Steal—the World's Most Dangerous Weapon

Steve Sheinkin · 266 pages

In December of 1938, a chemist in a German laboratory made a shocking discovery: When placed next to radioactive material, a Uranium atom split in two. That simple discovery launched a scientific race that spanned 3 continents. In Great Britain and the United States, Soviet spies worked their way into the scientific community; in Norway, a commando force slipped behind enemy lines to attack German

Killing Lincoln: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever

Bill O'Reilly, Martin Dugard · 324 pages

This book is a riveting historical narrative of the heart-stopping events surrounding the assassination of Abraham Lincoln, and the first work of history from mega-bestselling author Bill O'Reilly. The anchor of The O'Reilly Factor recounts one of the most dramatic stories in American history -- how one gunshot changed the country forever. In the spring of 1865, the bloody saga of America's Civil

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

The Billion Dollar Spy: A True Story of Cold War Espionage and Betrayal

David E. Hoffman · 312 pages

"While getting into his car on the evening of February 16, 1978, the chief of the CIA's Moscow station was handed an envelope by an unknown Russian. Its contents stunned the Americans: details of top-secret Soviet research and development in military technology that was totally unknown to the United States. From 1979 to 1985, Adolf Tolkachev, an engineer at a military research center, cracked open

Argo: How the CIA & Hollywood Pulled Off the Most Audacious Rescue in History

Antonio J. Mendez, Matt Baglio · 314 pages

This is a true story of secret identities and international intrigue; it is the gripping account of the history making collusion between Hollywood and high-stakes espionage. It relates the true account of the 1979 rescue of six American hostages from Iran. On November 4, 1979, Iranian militants stormed the American embassy in Tehran and captured dozens of American hostages, sparking a 444-day orde

Propaganda Girls: The Secret War of the Women in the OSS

Lisa Rogak · 240 pages

Washington's Spies: The Story of America's First Spy Ring

Alexander Rose · 369 pages

In 1778, George Washington unleashed an unlikely ring of spies in New York to discover British battle plans.

The Nazi Hunters: How a Team of Spies and Survivors Captured the World's Most Notorious Nazi

Neal Bascomb · 258 pages

This narrative nonfiction adaptation of HUNTING EICHMANN chronicles the capture of Adolf Eichmann, the head of operations for the Nazis' Final Solution.

The Kill Artist

Daniel Silva · 432 pages

"Gabriel Allon had a simple but brutal job: he tracked down and eliminated Israel's terrorist enemies. But when his wife and son fell victim to the danger that accompanied him everywhere, Gabriel quit and devoted himself to the work of art restoration, an occupation that had previously been a cover for his secret assignments. Now Ari Shamron, the head of Israeli intelligence, needs Gabriel's parti

Dark Invasion 1915: Germany's Secret War & the Hunt for the First Terrorist Cell in America

Howard Blum

No Easy Day: The Firsthand Account of the Mission That Killed Osama Bin Laden

Mark Owen, Kevin Maurer · 366 pages

For the first time anywhere, the first-person account of the planning and execution of the Bin Laden raid from a Navy Seal who confronted the terrorist mastermind and witnessed his final moment. From the streets of Iraq to the rescue of Captain Richard Phillips in the Indian Ocean, and from the mountaintops of Afghanistan to the third floor of Osama Bin Laden's compound, operator Mark Owen of the

The Secret War: Spies, Codes and Guerrillas 1939-1945

Max Hastings · 612 pages

An examination of one of the most important yet underexplored aspects of World War II--intelligence--shows how espionage successes and failures by the United States, Britain, Russia, Germany, and Japan influenced the course of the war and its final outcome.

The Secret Life of Bletchley Park: The WWII Codebreaking Centre and the Men and Women Who Worked There

Sinclair McKay · 336 pages

Bletchley Park was where one of the war's most famous and crucial achievements was made: the cracking of Germany's "Enigma" code in which its most important military communications were couched. This country house in the Buckinghamshire countryside was home to Britain's most brilliant mathematical brains, like Alan Turing, and the scene of immense advances in technology -- indeed, the birth of mod

Agent Garbo

Stephan Talty · 323 pages

Before he remade himself as the master spy known as Garbo, Juan Pujol was nothing more than a Barcelona poultry farmer. But as Garbo, he turned in a masterpiece of deception that changed the course of World War II. Posing as the Nazis’ only reliable spy inside England, he created an imaginary million-man army, invented armadas out of thin air, and brought a vast network of fictional subagents to l

American Assassin

Vince Flynn · 435 pages

Follow Mitch Rapp, as he takes on his first, explosive counterterrorism assignment.

Guests of the Ayatollah: The First Battle in America's War with Militant Islam

Mark Bowden · 704 pages