March 2023 Issue Angus Reilly Better Dead than Red G-Man: J Edgar Hoover and the Making of the American Century By Beverly Gage LR
June 2021 Issue Adam Sisman The Spies Who Loved Each Other Ethel Rosenberg: A Cold War Tragedy By Anne Sebba LR
February 2021 Issue 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 LR
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 LR
February 2018 Issue Michael Burleigh Lethal Intelligence Directorate S: The CIA and America's Secret Wars in Afghanistan and Pakistan, 2001–2016 By Steve Coll 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
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
July 2003 Issue Oleg Gordievsky Who Has Really Won? The Main Enemy: The Inside Story of the CIA's Final Showdown with the KGB By Milt Bearden, James Risen LR
March 2009 Issue Nikolai Tolstoy The Name’s Oggins The Lost Spy: An American in Stalin’s Secret Service By Andrew Meier LR
September 2007 Issue Michael Burleigh Legacy of Ashes Legacy of Ashes: The History of the CIA By Tim Weiner LR
April 2012 Issue Michael Evans Spies Like Us Intel Wars: The Secret History of the Fight Against Terror By Matthew M Aid LR
March 2014 Issue James Barr Going Freestyle America’s Great Game: The CIA’s Secret Arabists and the Shaping of the Modern Middle East By Hugh Wilford LR
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