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Allan Massie
An Old-fashioned Kind of Spy
Master of Deception: The Wartime Adventures of Peter Fleming
By Alan Ogden
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August 2019 Issue
Michael Burleigh
All the President’s Hitmen
Surprise, Kill, Vanish: The Definitive History of Secret CIA Assassins, Armies & Operators
By Annie Jacobsen
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March 2019 Issue
Christopher Andrew
The Spy Who Loved Himself
An Impeccable Spy: Richard Sorge, Stalin’s Master Agent
By Owen Matthews
October 2018 Issue
Frederick Forsyth
Our Kind of Traitor
The Spy and the Traitor: The Greatest Espionage Story of the Cold War
By Ben Macintyre
August 1988 Issue
George Stern
Espionage is So Much More Amusing in French
The Evil Empire: The Third World War Now
By Count de Marenches & Christine Ockrent
The Friends: Britain's Post-War Secret Intelligence Operations
By Nigel West
August 2018 Issue
Simon Heffer
From Riga with Love
The Zinoviev Letter: The Conspiracy That Never Dies
By Gill Bennett
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July 2018 Issue
Richard Norton-Taylor
On Her Majesty’s Shady Service
Disrupt and Deny: Spies, Special Forces, and the Secret Pursuit of British Foreign Policy
By Rory Cormac
February 2018 Issue
Piers Brendon
Spooked Out
Enemies Within: Communists, the Cambridge Spies and the Making of Modern Britain
By Richard Davenport-Hines
September 2017 Issue
Richard Davenport-Hines
File Bodies
The Secret Twenties: British Intelligence, the Russians and the Jazz Age
By Timothy Phillips
LR
June 1995 Issue
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
LR
May 2017 Issue
Alan Judd
Monkey Business
M: Maxwell Knight, MI5’s Greatest Spymaster
By Henry Hemming
LR
August 1993 Issue
David Chipp
Bang Bang Kiss Kiss
17F: The Life of Ian Fleming
By Donald McCormick
LR
October 2016 Issue
Jeremy Lewis
Hiding in Plain Sight
Game of Spies: The Secret Agent, the Traitor and the Nazi
By Paddy Ashdown
LR
September 2016 Issue
Alan Judd
Secrets & Lies
Spymaster: The Life of Britain’s Most Decorated Cold War Spy and Head of MI6, Sir Maurice Oldfield
By Martin Pearce
LR
October 1979 Issue
Paul Wilkinson, Anthony Storr
The Evil that Men do…
The Search for the 'Manchurian Candidate': The Story of the CIA's Secret Efforts to Control Human Behaviour
By John Marks
LR
June 2016 Issue
Donald Rayfield
Philosophers & Murderers
Black Wind, White Snow: The Rise of Russia’s New Nationalism
By Charles Clover
A Very Expensive Poison: The Definitive Story of the Murder of Litvinenko and Russia’s War with the West
By Luke Harding
LR
June 2016 Issue
Christopher Andrew
Whispers in Downing Street
The Black Door: Spies, Secret Intelligence and British Prime Ministers
By Richard J Aldrich, Rory Cormac
LR
December 2015 Issue
Oleg Gordievsky
Power Lines
Near and Distant Neighbours: A New History of Soviet Intelligence
By Jonathan Haslam
LR
December 2015 Issue
Alan Judd
The Guy Who Came in from the Cold
John le Carré: The Biography
By Adam Sisman
LR
November 2015 Issue
David Stafford
The Decryption Factor
The Secret War: Spies, Codes & Guerrillas 1939–45
By Max Hastings
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