A gripping spy novel set amid an Iranian coup
On August 19, 1953, Iranian Prime Minister Mohammad Mosaddegh was overthrown in a coup...
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Category: Spy Stories
Nazi saboteurs, the Mafia, and crooked cops
Woodrow Cain is a fugitive from disappointment in a small North Carolina town. “Wife gone,...
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A new series about British spies in Nazi Germany
In 2012, former BBC journalist Alex Gerlis brought out the first of four outstanding spy novels...
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A compelling tale of intrigue in Central Asia
Few Americans know anything about Central Asia. Yet a quick glance at the map shows that the...
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Mischief and misadventure in abundance at Slough House
When books are adapted for film or television, something is invariably lost. All too often, that...
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A top-secret Anglo American spy agency
Assume that the people who call the shots at MI6 and the CIA had grown so frustrated by the 1980s...
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An ingenious tale about a spy swap in East Berlin
The two decades following World War II brought a rush of unwelcome revelations to Great Britain...
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The Danish Resistance and a secret Nazi base
Radar played as big a role in the Allied victory in World War II as the atomic bomb. Once the...
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A dangerous spy game in Berlin before the fall of the Wall
Over the past half-dozen years, Paul Vidich has emerged as a major new voice in the literature of...
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A right-wing Washington cabal seeks to destabilize China
Professor Wang Kaixuan emerged from the waters of the South China Sea shortly before dawn.”...
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A nostalgic look at espionage from John le Carré
Before the advent of spy satellites and the Internet, espionage was a game played out largely by...
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A spellbinding MIddle Eastern spy story
Mark Sava’s long tenure as the CIA Station Chief in oil-rich Azerbaijan has made him one of...
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A spellbinding novel about espionage in Syria
Few world leaders in recent decades have proven themselves to be more savage than Syrian President...
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A deep state conspiracy to trigger a Pakistani-Indian war
In his first novel, The American Mission, veteran US Foreign Service Officer Matthew Palmer raises...
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A poisoned CIA asset, and a hunt for a CIA mole
A Russian businessman dies on a plane from JFK to Washington National Airports. It seems to be a...
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