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A biography of the restless, dazzling and dubious Sir George Downing: Pepys was his clerk; Milton wrote his letters; Wren was his surveyor (in the eponymous street).

Turncoat: Roundhead to Royalist, the Double Life of Cromwell’s S ...

Dennis Sewell

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New espionage history of two pivotal networks behind enemy lines in Belgium, agents who risked their lives to smuggle intelligence out of the occupied country.

The White Lady: The Story of Two Key British Secret Service Networks B ...

Helen Fry

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Operating out of Cairo's Savoy hotel, the British Empire's Middle Eastern intelligence section faced unique challenges during WW1. This is the compelling account of how it navigated the nuan... read more

The Arab Bureau: The Story of Britain’s Most Ingenious Intellige ...

Eamonn Gearon

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In this second book of his espionage trilogy (a sequel to Gabriel's Moon), beloved Boyd deploys his reluctant spy in Guatemala and West Berlin, where he stumbles on a plot to assassinate JFK... read more

The Predicament

William Boyd

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The suspended MI5 operative from Midnight in Vienna is embroiled in skulduggery following the murder of a senior German POW.

Appointment in Paris

Jane Thynne

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A sequel to his Legacy of Ashes: The History of the CIA (2007).

The Mission: The CIA in the 21st Century

Tim Weiner

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Retirement is no longer an option for an elderly former spy when she finds a baby floating down a river and her neighbour is murdered.

A Sting in Her Tale

Mark Ezra

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It's 44 years since his Gorky Park, but MCS is still producing sharp, tense poltical thrillers with sinister Russians.

Hotel Ukraine

Martin Cruz Smith

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The story of Vasili Mitrokhin, the KGB archivist who defected and contrived to bring his archives with him.

The Spy in the Archive

Gordon Corera

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The author is not a spy (or so he says), but his mother and grandfather were. This is an exploration into his family's convoluted past.

My Family and Other Spies

Alistair Wood

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The undermining of Communism in Poland and elsewhere through books: here is the story of the CIA programme to disseminate banned literature (Arendt, Solzhenitsyn, Orwell, etc.) behind the Ir... read more

The CIA Book Club: The Best-Kept Secret of the Cold War ...

Charlie English

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Deep-cover players of the waiting game for influence and action.

The Illegals: Russia’s Most Audacious Spies and the Plot to Infi ...

Shaun Walker

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A spy novel set during WW1 and the early days of MI6.

No 2 Whitehall Court

Alan Judd

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Racketteers, bent politicians and suspect emigres in 1950's London.

Smoke and Embers

John Lawton

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The third novel from the author of Damascus Station has us zipping between Moscow and Langley, with a bit of Singapore...

The Seventh Floor

David McCloskey

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A nail-biter set during the Nazi Occupation of Rome in 1944, as activists smuggle refugees and Allied soldiers to safety behind the backs of the Gestapo.

The Ghosts Of Rome

Joseph O'Connor

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A Chinese study centre in Oxford is under grave suspicion. Salvation comes in the form of Manon Tyler, Rimington's trusty CIA agent.

The Hidden Hand

Stella Rimington

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Entertaining biography of one of the Great Game's most colourful characters, a double-dealing Hungarian autodidact who was an astonishing linguist and an intrepid traveller, making his way t... read more

The Dervish Bowl: The Many Lives of Arminius Vambery ...

Anabel Loyd

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Since its inception in 1909, the Secret Service has had as many women at its heart as men. Few would recognise themselves as Miss Moneypenny.

Her Secret Service: The Forgotten Women of British Intelligence ...

Claire Hubbard-Hall

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The events of April 1980 at the Iranian Embassy in London.

The Siege: The Remarkable Story of the Greatest SAS Hostage Drama ...

Ben Macintyre

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Spies, writers and the contribution of British spies to literature, from the former British Ambassador to the US.

The Intelligent Spy’s Handbook

Robin Renwick

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A new Smiley novel, by the son of John le Carré.

Karla’s Choice

Nick Harkaway

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A nail-biter set in 1914, against the backdrop of Venetia Stanley's love affair with the Prime Minister, Asquith, who was more than twice her age.

Precipice

Robert Harris

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A semi-rogue MI5 agent (female), a money launderer codenamed 'Hagfish', and a news website run by descendants of Bletchley codebreakers who have been hacking high-security government databas... read more

The Enigma Girl

Henry Porter

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1938: a famous novelist dies, leaving his manuscript to his young typist with a cryptic dedication. Atmospheric spy story set between London and Vienna.

Midnight in Vienna

Jane Thynne

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A remarkable account of the author's encounter in Tasmania in the 1960s with the last Lord Talbot de Malahide, and his discovery 50 years later that his man might have been a Soviet spy. A f... read more

Undercover: Two Secret Lives

Tony Scotland

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With his customary élan, Boyd tells the story of an accidental spy zipping between Sixties' London, Cadiz and Warsaw.

Gabriel’s Moon

William Boyd

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From Burghley's biographer and the author of The Watchers: A Secret History of the Reign of Elizabeth.

All His Spies: The Secret World of Robert Cecil

Stephen Alford

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The story of the author's 25-year search for 'Agent Piccadilly' - the man who murdered Georgi Markov with a poisoned umbrella on Westminster Bridge in 1978.

The Umbrella Murder: The Hunt for the Cold War’s Most Notorious ...

Ulrik Skotte

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The narrator, an undercover agent in her mid-thirties, has been sent to spy on a group of eco-activists in France. A wry, sleuthing novel by the author of The Mars Room.

Creation Lake

Rachel Kushner

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Cyril Mills walked a tightrope: a household name because of his actual circus, it turned out that he was a senior Intelligence officer too.

The Spy Who Came in From the Circus

Christopher Andrew

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The only woman to reach London from Warsaw during WW2, she was later parachuted back into Poland where she was deeply involved in the Uprising; she then disappeared into the Soviet prison sy... read more

Agent Zo: The Untold Story of Fearless WW2 Resistance Fighter Elzbieta ...

Clare Mulley

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From the author of the excellent Invisible Agents, about women and espionage in C17th Britain.

Spycraft: Tricks and Tools of the Dangerous Trade from Elizabeth I to ...

Nadine Akkerman

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A deft account of how Churchill's vigorous networking in the US worked not only for his own benefit (speaking fees) but also to Britain's benefit.

Churchill’s American Network: Winston Churchill and the Forging ...

Cita Stelzer

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The author of Damacus Station takes us to Putin's Russia where two CIA operatives are tasked with recruiting the dictator's moneyman.

Moscow X

David McCloskey

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An elegant spy novel by a master of the genre, set in 1949 in Marseille and Laos.

Farewell Dinner for a Spy

Edward Wilson

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