April 2025 Issue Piers Brendon Tinker, Tailor, Sleeper, Troll The Illegals: Russia’s Most Audacious Spies and the Plot to Infiltrate the West By Shaun Walker
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 2018 Issue Simon Heffer From Riga with Love The Zinoviev Letter: The Conspiracy That Never Dies By Gill Bennett LR
September 2017 Issue Richard Davenport-Hines File Bodies The Secret Twenties: British Intelligence, the Russians and the Jazz Age By Timothy Phillips 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
December 2015 Issue Oleg Gordievsky Power Lines Near and Distant Neighbours: A New History of Soviet Intelligence By Jonathan Haslam
November 2015 Issue Alan Judd Spider in the Web The Shadow Man: At the Heart of the Cambridge Spy Circle By Geoff Andrews LR
November 2015 Issue Adam Sisman Agent Reckless Stalin’s Englishman: The Lives of Guy Burgess By Andrew Lownie LR
March 2009 Issue Nikolai Tolstoy The Name’s Oggins The Lost Spy: An American in Stalin’s Secret Service By Andrew Meier LR
April 2008 Issue Phillip Knightley The Socialist at Centre-Half Comrade Jim: The Spy Who Played for Spartak By Jim Riordan LR
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