"The history of espionage is far older than any of today's intelligence agencies, yet the long history of intelligence operations has been largely forgotten. The codebreakers at Bletchley Park, the most successful World War II intelligence agency, were completely unaware that their predecessors in earlier moments of national crisis had broken the codes of Napoleon during the Napoleonic wars and those of Spain before the Spanish Armada. Those who do...

"A brilliant exposé of how Kim Philby -- the master-spy and notorious double agent -- became the mentor, and later, mortal enemy of James Angleton who would eventually lead the CIA."--inside cover

Follows the plight of Wormold, a former vacuum cleaner salesman, who becomes a slave to the expensive whims of his thirteen-year-old daughter, Milly, and takes on a job for MI6 as Secret Agent 5920015 to pay for them.

"Old spooks carry the memory of tradecraft in their bones, and when Solomon Dortmund sees an envelope being passed from one pair of hands to another in a Marylebone cafe, he knows he's witnessed more than an innocent encounter. But in relaying his suspicions to John Bachelor, who babysits retired spies like Solly for MI5, he sets in motion a train of events that will alter lives"--

8 episodes of the sleek, chic, and powerful adventures of the secret agent codenamed Josephine.

When a young woman employed by the Swedish Ministry of Foreign Affairs finds herself in possession of documents revealing plans for a pan-European intelligence service with questionable objectives, she draws the attention of both SAPO, Sweden's intelligence agency, and Britain's MI6.

Surprise ... your target. Kill ... your enemy. Vanish ... without a trace. From Pulitzer Prize finalist Annie Jacobsen, the untold story of the CIA's secret paramilitary units. When diplomacy fails, and war is unwise, the president calls on the CIA's Special Activities Division, a highly-classified branch of the CIA and the most effective, black operations force in the world. Originally known as the president's guerrilla warfare corps, SAD conducts...

In this adventure in the series, eponymous agent Quiller is sent to Cambodia, where there is fear that the murderous Communist party known as the Khmer Rouge will fight to return to power. His only ally is a sexy photojournalist who is waging her own personal war against the Khmer Rouge.

"The New York Times bestselling author of Code Girls reveals the untold story of how women at the CIA ushered in the modern intelligence age, a sweeping story of a "sisterhood" of women spies spanning three generations who broke the glass ceiling, helped transform spycraft, and tracked down Osama Bin Laden. Upon its creation in 1947, the Central Intelligence Agency instantly became one of the most important spy services in the world. Like every male-dominated...