Spy Intelligence

The Skripal Files is a remarkable and definitive account of Sergei Skripal’s story, which lays bare the new spy war between Russia and the West. Mark Urban, the diplomatic and defense editor for the BBC, met with Skripal in the months before his poisoning, learning about his career in Russian military intelligence, how he became a British agent, his imprisonment in Russia, and the events that led to his release. Skripal’s first-hand accounts and experiences reveal the high stakes of a new spy game that harks back to the chilliest days of the Cold War.

Maddie James and her colleagues are terrorism experts working in a crumbling intelligence agency. They are certain another terrorist attack is coming, but in a post-9/11 election year the Administration is stressing its victories in the War on Terror - and few want to hear the team's warnings. Reluctantly, Maddie's given a team of five analysts to focus on the impending threat. The crew labors through bureaucratic obstacles, personal problems, and a blossoming romance between its senior members. They come heartbreakingly close to stopping the attack....

Four Thrillers. One Ruthless Heroine. Unstoppable Action Germany’s enemies don’t play by the rules—so neither does Department 89. Led by Major Sophie Decker, a covert military intelligence officer with a kill list longer than her patience, Department 89 operates in the shadows. No oversight. No restrictions. No mercy. When threats emerge—from terrorist cells and rogue generals to traitorous politicians—Decker goes to war. In this explosive boxset (Books 4–7 of the award-winning series), Decker takes on her deadliest missions yet. The targets are powerful. The stakes are global. ...

“Carefully plotted…an abundance of cunning political themes…invigorating until the last page.” –The BookLife Prize Cold War espionage is raging. A Russian bomber crashes on a frozen Alaska lake. The lone survivor, Anton, has flown the mission to free his wife from a political gulag, even though he knows in his heart that she is already dead. Ellen, the widow of a falsely discredited US Intelligence officer rescues him. Their common story of betrayal sparks a passion that each felt was forever lost. THE OPPOSITE OF TRUST is the perfect title for a cold war thriller that pits east ...

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 ...

Mein Spy gives a firsthand documentation of German espionage and sabotage in the U.S. in the lead-ups to both World War I and World War II. These activities, some only plotted, some carried out, defeated their own purpose. Instead of keeping America from intervening on behalf of the Allies, German disinformation and sabotage inflamed an American public opinion that up to that point had mostly been neutral.

As the son-in-law of Egyptian president Gamal Abdel Nasser and a close advisor to his successor, Anwar Sadat, Ashraf Marwan had access to the deepest secrets of the country's government. But he himself had a secret: he was a spy for the Mossad, Israel's intelligence service. Under the codename "The Angel", Marwan turned Egypt into an open book for the Israeli intelligence services and, by alerting the Mossad in advance of the joint Egyptian-Syrian attack on Yom Kippur, saved Israel from a devastating defeat.

On September 5, 1945, just three days after the Japanese surrendered and WWII ended, Igor Gouzenko walked out of the Soviet Embassy in Ottawa and blew the lid off a Soviet spy ring that had penetrated the Canadian government. The espionage network also extended to the U.S. and the U.K. and included the first of the atom bomb spies to be exposed and caught. Igor Gouzenko’s defection woke up the Western allies to the nature and extent of Stalin’s covert activities against them. The repercussions were dramatic and affected national security and international relations for decades. Although...

Dominic Kaine: Trigger Country In the shadows of Montana's rugged wilderness, danger and desire collide... Former special forces operative Dominic Kaine thought he'd found peace as the sheriff of Cedar Ridge, a quiet Montana town nestled against the mountains. But when mysterious artist Eva Carson arrives, his carefully constructed world begins to unravel. Eva has her own secrets—a past filled with covert operations and narrow escapes. She came to Cedar Ridge seeking anonymity, a place to disappear from the shadowy organization hunting her. What she didn't expect was Dominic Kaine, a man ...

Already infamous for the arbitrary, paranoid persecution of its own citizens throughout much of the 20th century, the Soviet Union - as is revealed in John Koeher’s revelatory, eye-opening exposé - also waged a vicious espionage campaign against the Catholic Church and its followers. From the persecution of local priests to an assassination order against Pope John Paul II, the KGB viewed Catholicism as a threat to stability in Eastern Europe and treated the church as an enemy of the State. Lifetime journalist and former U.S. Army Intelligence Officer John Koehler has written the definitive book on this startling history.

Julian Lawndsley has renounced his high-flying job in the City for a simpler life running a bookshop in a small English seaside town. But only a couple of months into his new career, Julian's evening is disrupted by a visitor. Edward, a Polish émigré living in Silverview, the big house on the edge of town, seems to know a lot about Julian's family and is rather too interested in the inner workings of his modest new enterprise. When a letter turns up at the door of a spy chief in London warning him of a dangerous leak, the investigations lead him to this quiet town by the sea.

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.

He just wants to be left alone but his enemies have other plans Jens Schacht - also known as The Scorpion - is on the run. The French Government want him for murder and deserting from the Foreign Legion. Meanwhile, the British Government also want him for wiping out one of their special forces units. Despite this, he secretly returns to Paris, hoping to settle down and live quietly with the love of his life. However, fate has decreed otherwise. A deadly encounter with the French Mafia puts Schacht and his fugitive partner, Siegfried Ritter, into the line of fire once more. In a relentless ...

One spy holds the world’s most dangerous secrets. Only one woman can bring him home When a deep-cover German agent is exposed inside the FSB, Berlin erupts. He’s carrying intel capable of collapsing alliances, compromising NATO, and upending the global order. Enter Major Sophie Decker, commander of Germany’s covert black ops unit — Department 89. Her mission: infiltrate Russia, retrieve the asset, and shut down the leak before Moscow pulls the trigger. But the Russians aren’t the only threat. There’s a traitor in Berlin, and time is running out. This isn’t surveillance. This ...

Katie and Bethany try to kick-start their detective agency again. She is settled, and in love with Marco, husband number three, or five, depending on how you count these things, and has no intention of mingling into her husband’s world of MI5. Having been accidentally hooked, there is no turning back as she enters the world of lies, sexpionage, and women’s power over men’s feeble minds. Book five in the Katie’s Journey series can be read as a standalone, and if this book is your introduction, then I’m sure you’ll find yourself reaching for books one to four. All references to ...

Three Thrillers. One Elite Kill Team. No Rules. No Mercy. When diplomacy fails and politics gets messy, Germany calls in Department 89 — a black ops unit that doesn’t officially exist. Led by Major Sophie Decker, they take on the jobs no one else can. Covert hits. Rogue missions. Enemies that don’t play fair. Decker’s team fights in the shadows, striking first and leaving nothing but silence behind. In these three high-octane thrillers, they go head-to-head with war criminals, assassins, and traitors within the system itself. Justice isn’t served. It’s executed. Three brutal ...

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 ...

The South’s James Bulloch, charming and devious, was to acquire a cutting-edge clandestine fleet intended to break President Lincoln’s blockade of Confederate ports, sink Northern merchant vessels, and drown the U.S. Navy’s mightiest ships at sea. The profits from gunrunning and smuggling cotton—Dixie’s notorious “white gold”—would finance the scheme. Opposing him was Thomas Dudley, a resolute Quaker lawyer and abolitionist. He was determined to stop Bulloch by any means necessary in a spy-versus-spy game of move and countermove, gambit and sacrifice, intrigue and betrayal.

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 ...