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Agent Josephine

Agent Josephine

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The New Yorker, Best Books of 2022 Vanity Fair, Best Books of 2022 Booklist, Best Books of 2022 Singer. Actress. Beauty. Spy. During WWII, Josephine Baker, the world's richest and...
Ghosts of Honolulu: A Japanese Spy, A Japanese American Spy Hunter, and the Untold Story of Pearl Harbor

Ghosts of Honolulu: A Japanese Spy, A Japanese American Spy Hunter, and the Untold Story of Pearl Harbor

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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER "A fast-paced debut...Espionage buffs will savor this vibrant account." - Publishers Weekly A U.S. naval counterintelligence officer working to safeguard Pearl Harbor; a Japanese spy ordered...
The Lion House: The Rise of Suleyman the Magnificent

The Lion House: The Rise of Suleyman the Magnificent

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'Wolf Hall for the Ottoman Empire ... History at its most gripping' Telegraph Venice, 1522. Intelligence arrives from the east confirming Europe's greatest fear- the vastly rich Ottoman Sultan has...
Forgotten Voices of the Secret War: An Inside History of Special Operations in the Second World War

Forgotten Voices of the Secret War: An Inside History of Special Operations in the Second World War

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The definitive oral history of a unique and extraordinary organisation tasked to 'set Europe ablaze' in World War 2 'The Gestapo kept me three days in this interrogation house. They...
The Real Special Relationship: The True Story of How the British and US Secret Services Work Together

The Real Special Relationship: The True Story of How the British and US Secret Services Work Together

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'Fascinating analysis' Nigel West; 'Grippingly told, authoritative' Mail on Sunday ; 'Meticulously researched...a remarkably good read' John Brennan, former CIA Director; 'Excellent...a detailed, highly professional account' Sir John Scarlett, former...
Black Ops: The Life of a CIA Shadow Warrior

Black Ops: The Life of a CIA Shadow Warrior

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A memoir by the highest-ranking covert warrior to lift the veil of secrecy and offer a glimpse into the shadow wars that America has fought since the Vietnam Era. Enrique...
Fancy Bear Goes Phishing: The Dark History of the Information Age, in Five Extraordinary Hacks

Fancy Bear Goes Phishing: The Dark History of the Information Age, in

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Hacking, espionage, war and cybercrime as you've never read about them before Fancy Bear was hungry. Looking for embarrassing information about Hillary Clinton, the elite hacking unit within Russian military...
The Secret World: A History of Intelligence

The Secret World: A History of Intelligence

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A stupendous history of intelligence, its uses and its neglect - by 'the doyen of intelligence historians' (New Statesman) The history of espionage stretches back over millennia, yet it has...
Red Notice: A True Story of Corruption, Murder and how I became Putin's no. 1 enemy

Red Notice: A True Story of Corruption, Murder and how I became

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The Sunday Times and NYT bestseller. A shocking true-life thriller about corruption, dirty politics and murder in Russia by one of Putin's Most Wanted. 'An unburdening, a witness statement and...
Agent Sonya: From the bestselling author of The Spy and The Traitor

Agent Sonya: From the bestselling author of The Spy and The Traitor

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The incredible story behind the greatest female spy in history from one of Britain's best historians, now in paperback Ursula Kuczynski Burton was a spymaster, saboteur, bomb-maker and secret agent....
The Spy and the Traitor: The Greatest Espionage Story of the Cold War

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

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A thrilling Cold War story about a KGB double agent, by one of Britain's greatest historians On a warm July evening in 1985, a middle-aged man stood on the pavement...
Tom Clancy's Enemy Contact

Tom Clancy's Enemy Contact

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Jack Ryan Jr returns in Tom Clancy's thrilling series - the inspiration behind the smash-hit on Amazon Prime At a suspected Hezbollah hideout in Argentina, a team of elite counter-terror...
Soldier Spy

Soldier Spy

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Soldier Spy is to the war against the enemy at home what Bravo Two Zero was to Gulf War 1 In the boot were six homemade pipe bombs, all linked...
Traitors and Spies: Espionage and corruption in high places in Australia, 1901-50

Traitors and Spies: Espionage and corruption in high places in Australia, 1901-50

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'Deeply researched with keen judgements, Traitors and Spies is a devastating indictment of Australia's security services and their political masters in the decades before the formation of ASIO.' - Professor...
Australia's First Spies: The remarkable story of Australian intelligence operations, 1901-45

Australia's First Spies: The remarkable story of Australian intelligence operations, 1901-45

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Australia was born with its eyes wide open. Although politicians spoke publicly of loyalty to Britain and the empire, in secret they immediately set about protecting Australia's interests from the...
The Secret Cold War: The Official History of ASIO, 1976 - 1989

The Secret Cold War: The Official History of ASIO, 1976 - 1989

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The Cold War between the West and the Soviet Bloc didn't end with detente in 1975: it just went underground. Until the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989, tensions...
The Protest Years: The Official History of ASIO, 1963-1975

The Protest Years: The Official History of ASIO, 1963-1975

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By 1963, Robert Menzies had been prime minister for thirteen years, Australia had its first troops in Vietnam, and change was in the air. There would soon be street protests...
The Spy Catchers: The Official History of ASIO, 1949-1963

The Spy Catchers: The Official History of ASIO, 1949-1963

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Winner of the Prime Minister's Prize for Australian History For the first time, ASIO has opened its archives to an independent historian. With unfettered access to the records, David Horner...
Enemies: A History of the FBI

Enemies: A History of the FBI

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Every Spy a Prince: The Complete History of Israel's Intelligence Community

Every Spy a Prince: The Complete History of Israel's Intelligence Community

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Think Like a Spy: Master the Art of Influence and Build Life-Changing Alliances

Think Like a Spy: Master the Art of Influence and Build Life-Changing

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'It's rare to find a book that is not only intensely personal but deeply practical. Julian Fisher has somehow pulled it off, in this fascinating and engaging guide to the...
A Woman I Know: female spies, double identities, and a new story of the Kennedy assassination

A Woman I Know: female spies, double identities, and a new story of the Kennedy assassination

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Giordano Bruno and the Embassy Affair

Giordano Bruno and the Embassy Affair

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Pines

Pines

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The first book of the smash-hit Wayward Pines trilogy, from the New York Times bestselling author of Dark Matter, Recursion, and Upgrade Secret Service agent Ethan Burke arrives in Wayward...
Her Secret Service: The Forgotten Women of British Intelligence

Her Secret Service: The Forgotten Women of British Intelligence

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'Groundbreaking' Sunday Times'Beautifully written and elegiac . . . a masterpiece' Damien Lewis, Sunday Times bestselling authorSince the inception of the Secret Service Bureau back in 1909, women have worked...
Intercept: The Secret History of Computers and Spies

Intercept: The Secret History of Computers and Spies

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INTERCEPT is the previously untold - and previously highly classified - story of the melding of technology and espionage. Gordon Corera's compelling narrative, rich with historical details and characters, takes...
The Secret Heart: John Le Carre: An Intimate Memoir

The Secret Heart: John Le Carre: An Intimate Memoir

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The Illusionist: The True Story of the Man Who Fooled Hitler

The Illusionist: The True Story of the Man Who Fooled Hitler

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Cairo, 1942: If you had asked a British officer who Colonel Clarke was, they would have been able to point him out: always ready with a drink and a story,...
Trotsky's Favourite Spy: The Life Of George Alexander Hill

Trotsky's Favourite Spy: The Life Of George Alexander Hill

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UnaKroll was eleven when she first met her father. They stopped for lunch on theway from Brighton to London and he took her outside to play with theinnkeeper's Angora rabbit....
Hitler's Spy Chief

Hitler's Spy Chief

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Arrested in the wake of the July 1944 plot to assassinate Hitler, Canaris was executed by the Nazis in the last week of the war, although the extent of his...
Future Crimes: Everything Is Connected, Everyone Is Vulnerable and What We Can Do about It

Future Crimes: Everything Is Connected, Everyone Is Vulnerable and What We Can Do about It

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Beverly Hills Spy: The Double-Agent War Hero Who Helped Japan Attack Pearl Harbor

Beverly Hills Spy: The Double-Agent War Hero Who Helped Japan Attack

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In the spirit of Ben Macintyre's greatest spy nonfiction, the truly unbelievable and untold story of Frederick Rutland-a debonair British WWI hero, flying ace, fixture of Los Angeles society, and...
The Spy Who Couldn't Spell: A Dyslexic Traitor, an Unbreakable Code, and the FBI's Hunt for America's Stolen Secrets

The Spy Who Couldn't Spell: A Dyslexic Traitor, an Unbreakable Code,

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The thrilling, true-life account of the FBI's hunt for the ingenious traitor Brian Regan-known as the Spy Who Couldn't Spell. Before Edward Snowden's infamous data breach, the largest theft of...
Lincoln's Spies: Their Secret War to Save a Nation

Lincoln's Spies: Their Secret War to Save a Nation

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A major addition to the history of the Civil War, Lincoln's Spies is a riveting account of the secret battles waged by Union agents to save a nation. Filled with...
'Buster' Crabb: Ian Fleming's Favourite Spy, The Inspiration for James Bond

'Buster' Crabb: Ian Fleming's Favourite Spy, The Inspiration for James

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Commander Lionel 'Buster' Crabb was a drinker and gambler, who loved women, fast cars and gadgets. A bomb disposal expert, he was regularly commissioned for secret underwater missions, and helped...
Enemies Within: Communists, the Cambridge Spies and the Making of Modern Britain

Enemies Within: Communists, the Cambridge Spies and the Making of

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What pushed Blunt, Burgess, Cairncross, Maclean and Philby into Soviet hands?With access to recently released papers and other neglected documents, this sharp analysis of the intelligence world examines how and...
Think Like a Spy: Master the Art of Influence and Build Life-Changing Alliances

Think Like a Spy: Master the Art of Influence and Build Life-Changing

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'It's rare to find a book that is not only intensely personal but deeply practical. Julian Fisher has somehow pulled it off, in this fascinating and engaging guide to the...
Spies: The epic intelligence war between East and West

Spies: The epic intelligence war between East and West

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The riveting story of the hundred-year intelligence war between Russia and the West with lessons for our new superpower conflict with China'A masterpiece' CHRISTOPHER ANDREW, author of The Defence of...
Breaking and Entering: The Extraordinary Story of a Hacker Called "Alien"

Breaking and Entering: The Extraordinary Story of a Hacker Called

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This taut, true thriller dives into a dark world that touches us all, as seen through the brilliant, breakneck career of an extraordinary hacker--a woman known only as Alien. When...
The Eagle in the Mirror: In Search of War Hero, Master Spy and Alleged Traitor Charles Howard 'Dick' Ellis

The Eagle in the Mirror: In Search of War Hero, Master Spy and Alleged

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Part biography, part forensic jigsaw puzzle, part cold-case detective investigation, The Eagle in the Mirror is the story of Charles Howard 'Dick' Ellis. The longest-serving spy for the British Secret...
The Flame of Resistance: American Beauty. French Hero. British Spy.

The Flame of Resistance: American Beauty. French Hero. British Spy.

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'I have always been fascinated by that charismatic hero of the Resistance, Josephine Baker, but it turns out I didn't know the half of it. Lewis' story-telling blew my mind....
Long Haul: Hunting the Highway Serial Killers

Long Haul: Hunting the Highway Serial Killers

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"A true-crime masterpiece." -Don WinslowFrom the FBI's former assistant director, a shocking journey to the dark side of America's highways, revealing the FBI Highway Serial Killings Initiative's hunt for the...
README.txt: A Memoir

README.txt: A Memoir

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In True Face: A Woman's Life in the CIA, Unmasked

In True Face: A Woman's Life in the CIA, Unmasked

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The bestselling coauthor of The Moscow Rules and Argo tells her riveting, courageous story of being a female spy at the height of the Cold WarJonna Hiestand Mendez began her...
Spies: The epic intelligence war between East and West

Spies: The epic intelligence war between East and West

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The riveting story of the hundred-year intelligence war between Russia and the West with lessons for our new superpower conflict with China'A masterpiece' CHRISTOPHER ANDREW, author of The Defence of...
Spies: The epic intelligence war between East and West

Spies: The epic intelligence war between East and West

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The riveting story of the hundred-year intelligence war between Russia and the West with lessons for our new superpower conflict with China'A masterpiece' CHRISTOPHER ANDREW, author of The Defence of...
Cashing Out: The Flight of Nazi Treasure, 1945-1948

Cashing Out: The Flight of Nazi Treasure, 1945-1948

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By the end of January 1945, it was clear to Germany that the war was lost. The Third Reich was in freefall, and its leaders, apart from those clustered around...
In True Face: A Woman's Life in the CIA, Unmasked

In True Face: A Woman's Life in the CIA, Unmasked

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The bestselling coauthor of The Moscow Rules and Argo tells her riveting, courageous story of being a female spy at the height of the Cold WarJonna Hiestand Mendez began her...