Piers Brendon

Freedom Readers

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

By Charlie English

John Foot

All the Pontiff’s Men

Vatican Spies, from the Second World War to Pope Francis

By Yvonnick Denoël (Translated from French by Alan McKay)

Angus Reilly

Better Dead than Red

G-Man: J Edgar Hoover and the Making of the American Century

By Beverly Gage

Adam Sisman

From Odessa with Love

Sidney Reilly: Master Spy

By Benny Morris

Adam Sisman

Sleeping with the Enemy

Love and Deception: Philby in Beirut

By James Hanning

Beirut Spy: The St George Hotel Bar – International Intrigue in the Middle East

By Saïd K Aburish

Adam Sisman

The Spies Who Loved Each Other

Ethel Rosenberg: A Cold War Tragedy

By Anne Sebba

Alan Judd

Some Like It Hot

The Quiet Americans: Four CIA Spies at the Dawn of the Cold War – a Tragedy in Three Acts

By Scott Anderson

Allan Massie

An Old-fashioned Kind of Spy

Master of Deception: The Wartime Adventures of Peter Fleming

By Alan Ogden

Michael Burleigh

All the President’s Hitmen

Surprise, Kill, Vanish: The Definitive History of Secret CIA Assassins, Armies & Operators

By Annie Jacobsen

Simon Heffer

From Riga with Love

The Zinoviev Letter: The Conspiracy That Never Dies

By Gill Bennett

Richard Davenport-Hines

File Bodies

The Secret Twenties: British Intelligence, the Russians and the Jazz Age

By Timothy Phillips

Martin Walker

They Got It All Wrong

For the President's Eyes Only: Secret Intelligence and the American Presidency from Washington to Bush

By Christopher Andrew

Alan Judd

Monkey Business

M: Maxwell Knight, MI5’s Greatest Spymaster

By Henry Hemming