Spy Intelligence

Experienced CIA agent Henry Jones finds signs of a covert agency penetration and wonders how extensively business interests have seized U.S. intelligence. Dubbed the Dark Protocol, this covert network turns real missions into mercenaries by controlling worldwide battles for personal benefit. Driven by allegiance to real national security—and troubled by the human costs he has seen—Henry dares to reveal the plot. Supported by Alex Carter, a moral whistleblower in hiding, and Elena Volkov, a disillusioned foreign agent, Henry runs against merciless surveillance under the mysterious ...

Throughout history, there has been a consistent crossover between show business and espionage, often producing some of the most extraordinary undercover agents, and occasionally leading to disastrous and dangerous failures. The fact that one relies on publicity and the other on secrecy might seem to rule out a successful symbiosis, but as both require high levels of creative thinking, improvisation, disguise and role-play, they inevitably attract some remarkably similar personalities. Stars and Spies is the first history of the interplay between the two worlds.

A devastating terrorist attack cripples Berlin. The terrorists have no idea what they've started When a North Korean defector escapes to Germany, a brutal attempt to silence him fails—and Pyongyang responds with vengeance. The resulting attack leaves Berlin in chaos, the worst since the end of World War II. Now the German government activates its most dangerous weapon: Major Sophie Decker, head of Department 89, an elite covert intelligence unit that operates without oversight or restraint. Her orders are simple: locate and eliminate everyone involved. No arrests. No negotiations. As ...

Ever since the earliest days of the Cold War, American intelligence agencies have launched spies in the sky, implanted spies in the ether, burrowed spies underground, sunk spies in the ocean, and even tried to control spies' minds by chemical means. But these weren't human spies. Instead, the United States expanded its reach around the globe through techno-spies. Nothing Is Beyond Our Reach investigates how America's technophiles inadvertently created a global espionage empire: one based on technology, not land.

Lady Sophia Huntington Villiers is no stranger to intrigue, as her work with Alan Turing’s Bombe Machines at Bletchley Park during the war attests. Now, as part of Simon Barre’s covert team in postwar Vienna, she uses her inimitable charm and code name Starling to infiltrate the world of relics, uncovering vital information that could tilt the stakes of the mounting Cold War. When several influential men charge her with finding the death mask of Mozart, Sophie wonders if there is more than the composer’s legacy at stake and finds herself drawn to potential answers in Prague.

Michal Goleniewski, cover name Sniper, was one of the most important spies of the early Cold War. For two and a half years at the end of the 1950s, as a Lt. Colonel at the top of Poland’s espionage service, he smuggled more than 5,000 top-secret Soviet bloc intelligence and military documents, as well as 160 rolls of microfilm, out from behind the Iron Curtain. In January 1961, he abandoned his wife and children and made a dramatic defection across divided Berlin with his East German mistress to the safety of American territory.

None stop action in this comedy adventure story of three old school friends who find themselves caught up in an incredible web of intrigue and espionage. Mike Hardcastle never envisaged that twenty years ago his life would be turned upside down by a series of unforeseen events. Now, thirty-eight years old, Mike has made his peace with his turbulent past and is content with his modest lifestyle.Then, everything changes when Edith, his aunt, announces that she needs Mike to look after her dog, Hemingway, while she visits a sick friend. Mike’s mundane and predictable life is about to be put ...

The Psychology of Spies and Spying tells the story of the people involved in spying: the human sources (agents) who betray their country or organization, and the professional intelligence officers who manage the collection and reporting process. It provides a rigorous psychological analysis of the personalities and motivations of individuals involved in spying.

Love is perilous — and impossible to resist…. When a senator's son disappears under mysterious circumstances at an exclusive Caribbean resort, Paragon agent Gideon Jones is dispatched to observe and report. Posing as an entertainer-for-hire for the resort's wealthy guests, Gideon uncovers a shocking web of deceit and desire — even as he feels the magnetic pull of an extraordinary man who tempts him like no other. When a deadly threat is revealed, Gideon is forced to confront a terrible truth: Saving the man he’s fallen for could mean losing him forever…. The elite operatives of ...

She’s not here to serve the system. She’s here to burn it down if it fails. Department 89 is Germany’s deadliest secret—a black ops team that operates outside the law. Major Sophie Decker leads it with absolute authority, targeting extremist groups and hostile foreign agents before they can strike. No courts. No questions. Just bodies. This boxset delivers four intense spy thrillers packed with covert warfare, political betrayal, and a heroine who never backs down. For fans of high-stakes action and hard justice, this is your next addiction. Praise for the Department 89 series ★...

On the trail of Soviet infiltrator Agent Blériot, Svetlana Lokhova takes the reader on a thrilling journey through Stalin’s most audacious intelligence operation. On a sunny September day in 1931, a Soviet spy walked down the gangplank of the luxury transatlantic liner SS Europa and into New York. Attracting no attention, Stanislav Shumovsky had completed his journey from Moscow to enrol at a top American university. He was concealed in a group of 65 Soviet students heading to prestigious academic institutions. But he was after far more than an excellent education.

As war began in Europe in 1939, a naturalized German American was recruited by the Nazis to set up a radio transmitter and collect messages from spies active in the city to send back to Nazi spymasters in Hamburg. This German American, William G. Sebold, approached the FBI and became the first double agent in the Bureau's history, the center of a 16-month investigation that led to the arrest of a colorful cast of 33 enemy agents.

When MI5 agent Dragan Kelly gets word of a ‘priceless treasure’ heard spoken of by Eva Braun in Hitler’s bunker, he’s certain of one thing. He must be the one to find it. Reunited with his team - the enigmatic and unpredictable Sybilla Thorstaadt, and the ‘mad’ priest Wolfgang Rahn - Kelly enlists the help of a tough ex-German paratrooper, Horst Manteufel, the last guard commander in Hitler’s bunker. As Kelly expects, nothing is straightforward. Every step they take is dogged by the sinister and mysterious Thule secret society. If that wasn’t enough, Gestapo chief Heinrich...

Curveball answers the crucial question of the Iraq war: How and why was America’s intelligence so catastrophically wrong? In this dramatic and explosive book, award-winning Los Angeles Times reporter Bob Drogin delivers a narrative that takes us to Europe, the Middle East, and deep inside the CIA to find the truth—the truth about the lies and self-deception that led us into a military and political nightmare.

One traitor. One mission. One final war inside Germany’s intelligence elite For years, Major Sophie Decker has fought to expose a powerful traitor buried deep in the German government. Twice he tried to destroy her. Twice he failed. Now, with a direct order from the Chancellor, Decker leads Department 89, Germany’s most secretive black ops unit, on a final mission to uncover him—and end him. But her enemy has backup: a rogue investigative journalist with one goal—destroy Decker and take the Chancellor down with her. If Decker fails, the traitor wins. And the republic burns. Praise ...

In the World War II era, Geoffrey Pyke was described as one of the world's great minds - to rank alongside Einstein. Pyke was an inventor, adventurer, polymath, and unlikely hero of both world wars. He earned a fortune on the stock market, founded an influential pre-school, wrote a bestseller, and came up with the idea for the US and Canadian Special Forces. Henry Hemming is the first reporter to sift through this extraordinary new information and finally tell Pyke's astonishing story in full: his brilliance, his flaws, and his life of adventures, ideas, and secrets.

VOLCANO by Rosa Turner Boschen A tautly written political thriller. Thirteen days before the end of 2001 an alliance of Chinese and Middle Eastern terrorists has an unholy plan to blow democracy out of the water. American intelligence is under siege and so is Division Chief Mark Neal's marriage. When strange things start happening at home, Ana steps away from her maternity leave to accept a secret mission. With a time bomb ticking, can Mark and Ana both save their troubled relationship—and avert an international crisis? Praise for Volcano "Volcano is an intense suspense thriller that has ...

Giving his all to save the man he loves…. When a Las Vegas gangster steals a rogue nuke, it’s up to Paragon to prevent a catastrophe. Agent Dominic Mazza’s mission: Infiltrate the gangster’s casino by baring all as a male dancer. The hard-bodied agent has a clear and seductive plan of attack — until dance troupe manager Jared Price proves a dangerous distraction with his engaging personality and striking good looks. Emotional entanglements are deadly in Dominic’s line of business. But when Jared pushes his way into the gangster’s decadent inner circle, Dom realizes he has no ...

The most intimate secrets are always professional... In the shadowy world of espionage, Dominic Kaine knows that trust is a luxury no operative can afford. But when a high-stakes tech theft brings them face-to-face with Dr. Alexandra Hunter—a brilliant consultant with ties to their past—the line between mission and personal entanglement begins to blur. As Dominic navigates a web of encrypted whispers and calculated deceptions, they discover the stolen AI technology is merely the surface of a conspiracy that runs deeper than anyone suspects. With Victoria Cross emerging as a dangerous ...

From living in a tin-roofed shack north of Dar es Salaam to becoming Baroness Park of Monmouth, Daphne Park led a most unusual life - one that consisted of a lifelong love affair with the world of Britain's secret services. In the 1970s, she was appointed to Secret Intelligence Service's most senior operational rank as one of its seven area controllers - an extraordinary achievement for a woman working within this most male-dominated and secretive of organizations.