David Anderson

The Spy Who Taught Me

Behind the Enigma: The Authorised History of GCHQ, Britain’s Secret Cyber-Intelligence Agency

By John Ferris

How Spies Think: Ten Lessons in Intelligence

By David Omand

Rory Cormac

Don’t Mention the Russians

Active Measures: The Secret History of Disinformation and Political Warfare

By Thomas Rid

Michael Burleigh

All the President’s Hitmen

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

By Annie Jacobsen

Michael S Goodman

Spying through History

The Secret World: A History of Intelligence

By Christopher Andrew

Richard Davenport-Hines

File Bodies

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

By Timothy Phillips

Jeremy Lewis

Hiding in Plain Sight

Game of Spies: The Secret Agent, the Traitor and the Nazi

By Paddy Ashdown

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

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

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

David Stafford

The Decryption Factor

The Secret War: Spies, Codes & Guerrillas 1939–45

By Max Hastings

Paul Addison

Gabbo & Bovril

Churchill’s Wizards: The British Genius for Deception 1914–1945

By Nicholas Rankin

M R D Foot

Albanian Operations

The Wildest Province: SOE in the Land of the Eagle

By Roderick Bailey

Nigel Jones

Not What It Seemed

The Hunt for Nazi Spies: Fighting Espionage in Vichy France

By Simon Kitson (Translated by Catherine Tihanyi)

Michael Burleigh

Legacy of Ashes

Legacy of Ashes: The History of the CIA

By Tim Weiner

David Stafford

A Man With No Side

Thirty Secret Years: A G Denniston’s Work in Signals Intelligence 1914–1944

By Robin Denniston

Allan Massie

Sympathy For A Devil

Elizabeth’s Spy Master: Francis Walsingham and the Secret War that Saved England

By Robert Hutchinson

Richard Overy

The Man Who Plotted for Peace

Hitler’s Spy Chief: The Wilhelm Canaris Mystery

By Richard Bassett

Nigel Jones

Very Gallant Gentlemen

Secret War Heroes: Men of the Special Operations Executive

By Marcus Binney

Alex Goodall

Shooting Stars

Age of Assassins: A History of Conspiracy and Political Violence, 1865–1981

By Michael Newton