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A State of Secrecy: Stasi Informers and the Culture of Surveillance

A State of Secrecy: Stasi Informers and the Culture of Surveillance

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AUSTRALIAN AUTHOR A series of five interlaced, in-depth biographical studies from across the spectrum of writers-turned-spies recruited by the Stasi. Secret police agencies such as the East German Ministry for...
Secret Agent, Unsung Hero: The Valour of Bruce Dowding

Secret Agent, Unsung Hero: The Valour of Bruce Dowding

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Young Australian teacher Bruce Dowding arrived in Paris in 1938, planning only to improve his understanding of French language and culture. Secret Agent, Unsung Hero draws on decades of research...
Ring of Spies: How MI5 and the FBI Brought Down the Nazis in America

Ring of Spies: How MI5 and the FBI Brought Down the Nazis in America

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Speedy cars and faster women, British secret agents and Nazi spies, stolen American blueprints hidden in violin cases and specially adapted umbrellas. This is the story of the Nazi spy...
Secret Power: WikiLeaks and Its Enemies

Secret Power: WikiLeaks and Its Enemies

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*Winner of the European Award for Investigative And Judicial Journalism 2021* *Winner of the Premio Alessandro Leogrande Award for Investigative Journalism 2022* *Winner of the Premio Angelo Vassallo Award 2022*...
Ian Fleming and Operation Golden Eye: Keeping Spain out of World War II

Ian Fleming and Operation Golden Eye: Keeping Spain out of World War II

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Red China: Mao Crushes Chiang's Kuomintang, 1949

Red China: Mao Crushes Chiang's Kuomintang, 1949

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Underground Structures of the Cold War: The World Below

Underground Structures of the Cold War: The World Below

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Secret Power: WikiLeaks and Its Enemies

Secret Power: WikiLeaks and Its Enemies

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Hesitant Comrades: The Irish Revolution and the British Labour Movement

Hesitant Comrades: The Irish Revolution and the British Labour Movement

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No Place to Hide: Edward Snowden, the NSA and the Surveillance State

No Place to Hide: Edward Snowden, the NSA and the Surveillance State

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Spies in the Family: An American Spymaster, His Russian Crown Jewel, and the Friendship That Helped End the Cold War

Spies in the Family: An American Spymaster, His Russian Crown Jewel, and the Friendship That Helped End the Cold War

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Hunting the Jackal: A CIA Ground Soldier's 50-year Career Hunting America's Enemies

Hunting the Jackal: A CIA Ground Soldier's 50-year Career Hunting America's Enemies

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A Dangerous Game

A Dangerous Game

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Codeword Overlord: Axis Espionage and the D-Day Landings

Codeword Overlord: Axis Espionage and the D-Day Landings

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The Spy in the Tower: The Untold Story of Joseph Jakobs, the Last Person to be Executed in the Tower of London

The Spy in the Tower: The Untold Story of Joseph Jakobs, the Last Person to be Executed in the Tower of London

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Double Agent Celery: MI5's Crooked Hero

Double Agent Celery: MI5's Crooked Hero

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With Britain braced for a German invasion, MI5 recruited an ex RNAS officer, come confidence trickster, called Walter Dicketts as a double agent. Codenamed Celery, Dicketts was sent to Lisbon...
The Hunt for Zerzura: The Lost Oases and the Desert War

The Hunt for Zerzura: The Lost Oases and the Desert War

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Spy Runner: Ronnie Reed and Agent Zigzag, Operation Mincemeat and the

Spy Runner: Ronnie Reed and Agent Zigzag, Operation Mincemeat and the

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Major Ronnie Reed was case officer for the infamous Agent Zigzag and the face behind Operation Mincemeat. But how did this young BBC radio operator, with no money and qualifications...
Lost Son: An American Family Trapped Inside the FBI's Secret Wars

Lost Son: An American Family Trapped Inside the FBI's Secret Wars

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When Billy Reilly vanished, his parents embarked on a desperate search for answers. Was their son's disappearance connected to his mysterious work for the FBI, or was it a personal...
Global Strike: A Strike Back Novel (3)

Global Strike: A Strike Back Novel (3)

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If you love the Strikeback series, pre-order the thrilling new book, Red Strike , now. Coming February 2019. Charles Street was once a highly-respected agent working for MI6, until a...
The Hostage: Her survival depends on the last man she should trust . . .

The Hostage: Her survival depends on the last man she should trust . . .

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'Thrilling! The Hostage is an intense, white-knuckle ride from start to finish' LAURA GRIFFIN 'An action-packed, don't-blink-or-you'll-miss-something kind of novel, which makes it impossible to put down once you've started...
V-Bombers: Britain's Nuclear Frontline in the Cold War

V-Bombers: Britain's Nuclear Frontline in the Cold War

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This is the story of a very British deterrent. Much has been written about the V-bombers the Valiant, Victor and Vulcan but virtually nothing has been said about their strategic...
Spies in the Family: An American Spymaster, His Russian Crown Jewel, and the Friendship That Helped End the Cold War

Spies in the Family: An American Spymaster, His Russian Crown Jewel, and the Friendship That Helped End the Cold War

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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...
Putin: The explosive and extraordinary new biography of Russia's leader

Putin: The explosive and extraordinary new biography of Russia's leader

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The monumental biography of the most influential leader on the world stage in the last twenty years. Vladimir Putin is a pariah to the West. He has the power to...
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...
The Midnight Swimmer: A gripping Cold War espionage thriller by a former special forces officer

The Midnight Swimmer: A gripping Cold War espionage thriller by a former special forces officer

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A brilliant Cuban Missile Crisis spy thriller by a former special forces officer who is ' poised to inherit the mantle of John le Carre' 'Edward Wilson seems poised to...
The Berlin Exchange

The Berlin Exchange

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** PRE-ORDER THE NEW JOSEPH KANON NOVEL, SHANGHAI , COMING SOON IN SPRING 2024! ** 'A modern master at work' THE TIMES 'Heart-poundingly suspenseful' WASHINGTON POST 'Joseph Kanon owns this...
The Night Travelers

The Night Travelers

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Four generations of women experience love, loss, war and hope from the rise of Nazism to the Cuban Revolution and, finally, the fall of the Berlin Wall in this sweeping...
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...
Hope

Hope

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Bernard Samson gets caught up in the messy unravelling of the USSR in the second novel of the Faith, Hope, Charity trilogy Bernard Samson returns to Berlin in the second...
Faith

Faith

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The first novel in the celebrated Faith, Hope and Charity trilogy finds Bernard Samson in rural Germany, trying to deliver a Russian defector to London Central Bernard Samson returns to...
Charity

Charity

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The final novel featuring Bernard Samson, one of Deighton's most enduring characters, who must return to Berlin for one last case Bernard Samson returns to Berlin in the final novel...
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...
Call for the Dead: The Smiley Collection

Call for the Dead: The Smiley Collection

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A special look for the books featuring his iconic character, George Smiley After a routine security check by George Smiley, civil servant Samuel Fennan apparently kills himself. When Smiley finds...
Boys in Zinc

Boys in Zinc

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Mesmerizing, haunting stories from the Soviet-Afghan War collected by the winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature From 1979 to 1989 Soviet troops engaged in a devastating war in Afghanistan...
Beyond the Wall: East Germany, 1949-1990

Beyond the Wall: East Germany, 1949-1990

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The definitive new history of East Germany by a highly acclaimed historian In 1990, a country disappeared. When the iron curtain fell, East Germany simply ceased to be. For over...
Karla's Choice: A  John le Carre Novel

Karla's Choice: A John le Carre Novel

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A gripping new novel set in the universe of John le Carre's most iconic spy, George Smiley, written by acclaimed novelist Nick Harkaway It is spring in 1963 and George...
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...
White Fox

White Fox

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Set during the darkest days of the Cold War, a tautly-told, nail-bitingly atmospheric historical thriller about two competing KGB operatives caught in a race to secure the devastating truth behind...
Midnight in Chernobyl: The Untold Story of the World's Greatest Nuclear Disaster

Midnight in Chernobyl: The Untold Story of the World's Greatest

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The definitive, dramatic untold story of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant disaster, based on original reporting and new archival research. ** Challenger- A True Story of Heroism and Disaster on...
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...
The Honourable Schoolboy: The Smiley Collection

The Honourable Schoolboy: The Smiley Collection

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As we publish all of le Carre's work for the first time, a special look for the books featuring his iconic character, George Smiley George Smiley, now chief of the...
The Russia Anxiety: And How History Can Resolve It

The Russia Anxiety: And How History Can Resolve It

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We can all treat history with more respect. If we do, we might find that the cure for the Russia Anxiety is within reach ... Russia is an exceptional country,...
The Cold War: A World History

The Cold War: A World History

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A major history of the conflict that shaped every aspect of our world As Germany and then Japan surrendered in 1945 there was a tremendous hope that a new and...