Spy Wars

In 1861, when war erupted between the States, President Lincoln made an impassioned plea for volunteers. Determined not to remain on the sidelines, Emma Edmonds cropped her hair, donned men's clothing, and enlisted in the Union Army. Everyone, even her fellow soldiers, thought she was a man. But Emma wanted to do more. When she heard a key Union spy had been captured and executed, she volunteered to take his place. Soon she was a cunning master of disguise, risking discovery and death at every turn. Emma had fooled her own army, but could she keep her secret behind rebel lines?

In a forbidding Gothic castle on a hilltop in the heart of Nazi Germany, an unlikely band of British officers spent the Second World War plotting daring escapes from their Nazi captors. Or so the story of Colditz has gone, unchallenged for 70 years. But that tale contains only part of the truth. The astonishing inside story, revealed for the first time by best-selling historian Ben Macintyre, is a tale of the indomitable human spirit, but also one of class conflict, homosexuality, espionage, insanity and farce.

In this thrilling historical spy novel from New York Times best-selling author Alan Furst, two heroic resistance fighters smuggle valuable information to occupied Paris to turn the tide of the World War II and defeat Nazi Germany.

As the daughter of Sir Alfred Whitford, Kat has a certain set of responsibilities. Chasing her wayward sister, Ellie, to Nazi-occupied Paris was never supposed to be one of them. Now accustomed to the luxurious lifestyle that her Nazi boyfriend provides, Ellie has no intention of going back to the shackled life their parents dictate - but Kat will stop at nothing to bring her sister home.

This candid and darkly witty memoir recounts an exhilarating life - and a few close brushes with death. With remarkable sangfroid and a humorist's eye for absurdity, H. K. Roy describes his many strange and risky exploits in his long career with the CIA. Whether he was pursuing Soviet and Cuban spies, running "denied area" operations in Eastern Europe, hunting Bosnian War criminals, or providing actionable intelligence to US government and coalition forces in Iraq, Roy usually found himself at the right place at the right time.

When a major espionage network at the heart of MI5 is blown and its members arrested the finger of suspicion points to a high-level traitor in the Kremlin, and when that same man secretly meets with the British in Geneva, pint-sized State Security Chief Stanislav Paslov realizes that one of his closest allies and confidants is conspiring with the West. To unmask such a powerful enemy Stanislav Paslov will need friends in very high places, but who can he trust? Moscow is in turmoil, comrade is betraying comrade, and division and treachery are everywhere. Meanwhile, in Washington's relative ...

The spy novel emerged from the intrigues of the mid-20th century for good reason. The war with the Third Reich involved an unseen cloak-and-dagger struggle between the participants, but beyond that, an even larger and longer contest took place in the shadows. The men responsible for this unprecedented leaking of life-or-death information would enter history as the Cambridge Five - though in fact, they may have been only the core of a much larger group.

In June 1952 a woman was murdered by an obsessed colleague in a hotel in the South Kensington district of London. Her name was Christine Granville. That she died young was perhaps unsurprising; that she had survived the Second World War was remarkable. The daughter of a feckless Polish aristocrat and his wealthy Jewish wife, Granville would become one of Britain's most daring and highly decorated special agents.

Terrorists come from all backgrounds. But they share one goal: the greatest tragedy on American soil. The daughter of an Iraqi cleric and her ruthless brother plot a disaster that will eclipse 9/11, enlisting unsuspecting Americans as pawns. When a chilling beheading video surfaces on the dark web, the vigilante group Fidelitas sends ex-Special Forces operative Rayna Tan into the war-torn Middle East. Her mission: uncover the truth. Surviving the investigation is just the beginning. Time is running out. With whispers of an attack looming over America’s most beloved holiday, Rayna must ...

In the shadows of a high-stakes world where espionage and betrayal collide, "From Russia with Sodium Pentothal" unfolds within the stark confines of an interrogation room that serves as both a battleground and a crucible for truth. The story follows Anastasia, a skilled interrogator with a reputation for her unconventional tactics, as she confronts Jack, an American agent whose secrets could tip the balance of global power. Bound to a chair and at the mercy of a woman who is as enigmatic as she is relentless, Jack navigates a web of deception, survival, and unexpected connection. As ...

“Amazingly intricate and impossible to put down." There could be a new president of Russia... and she has plans. Her nation stands at a precipice, but are they ready to usher a woman into the Kremlin? Will she allow anybody to stop her? With a dissident voice leaking her secrets to the world, Svetlana might not have that chance—she will give anything to know the identity and whereabouts of this whistleblower. Russian oligarchs continue to gather in secret—a vicious cage fight, controlled by a bloodthirsty man, whose actions surpass anything that The Games have seen before. Is this one...

The Angels (CIA Area 51 Chronicles – Book 1) By TD Barnes The birth of CIA aerial reconnaissance. The race to build the U-2. The hidden history of Area 51. In this explosive first installment of The CIA Area 51 Chronicles, step into the shadowy world of Cold War espionage, where the newly formed Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) battles for supremacy against the U.S. Air Force, Navy, and Marine Corps in a high-stakes struggle to control America’s aerial intelligence operations. At the height of Cold War paranoia, President Truman entrusts the CIA with an unprecedented mission—to ...

As he prepares to deliver the State of the Union address, the president of the United States is convinced the Islamic State is on the run, about to be crushed by American forces once and for all. But New York Times foreign correspondent J. B. Collins tells the president he's dead wrong. With the Middle East on fire, the Israeli prime minister dead, and Amman in ruins, Collins fears a catastrophic attack inside the American homeland is imminent.

Simon Kovalic, top intelligence operative for the Commonwealth of Independent Systems, is on the front line of the burgeoning Cold War with the aggressive Illyrican Empire. He barely escapes his latest mission with a broken arm and vital intel that points to the empire cozying up to the Bayern Corporation: a planet-sized bank. There’s no time to waste, but with Kovalic out of action, his undercover team is handed over to his ex-wife, Lt. Commander Natalie Taylor.

Reed Montgomery's retirement is doomed to be short-lived. After the CIA receives intelligence from deep inside North Korea of a startling new weapon, President Trousdale green-lights an illegal mission to extract the informant.

As World War II rages across Europe and the Pacific, its impact ripples through communities in the heartland of America. A farm girl is locked in a dangerous love triangle with two Germans soldiers held in an Illinois POW camp. Another German, a war refugee, is forced to risk her life spying on the developing Manhattan Project in Chicago. And espionage surrounds the disappearance of an actress from the thriving Jewish community of Chicago's Lawndale.

“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 ...

Rudi Graf is an engineer who always dreamed of sending rockets to the moon. But instead, he finds himself working alongside Wernher von Braun, launching V2 rockets at London for the Nazis from a bleak seaside town in occupied Holland. As the SS increases its scrutiny of the project, Graf, an engineer more than a soldier, has to muster all of his willpower to toe the party line. And when rumors of a defector circulate through the German ranks, Graf becomes a prime suspect.

A Deadly Game of Betrayal Lisbon,1940: With Europe in turmoil and France falling, British agent Taylor Hartridge steals the Nazi invasion plans for Britain. He suspects a double agent in Lisbon and, fearing for his life, insists on taking the plans to London. He’s murdered before his departure, the invasion plans stolen. London analyst Simon Cole arrives in Lisbon to replace him. A novice who’s woefully unprepared but willing and determined, he’s pitted against the Chameleon, a mysterious German spy who’s a master of disguise. Racing to recover the plans before the enemy launches ...

July 1940. As Britain braces itself for invasion, ex-Tommy and safecracker Bill O'Hagan is glad to have escaped the battlefield. But when a job goes wrong, he finds himself forced to serve his country once more. Spurned by his government and fearing for his life, the Duke of Windsor flees to Portugal with the woman for whom he abdicated the throne, Wallis Simpson. As a web of Nazi trickery threatens to ensnare him, his fate and the fate of Britain rest on one man.