Books like The secret soldier by Alex Berenson

When a former CIA interrogator is murdered, Agent John Wells must investigate hints of a covert Polish base, the Midnight House, and a deadly trail of Islamist terror that challenges his own loyalties.

Former CIA agent John Wells must stop an Iranian plot to kill a CIA station chief and launch a nuclear attack, going undercover from Guatemala to Hong Kong and Istanbul.

In this high‑stakes thriller, exhausted CIA operative John Wells must trace a Russian plot that threatens Washington and his own life, forcing him into a deadly confrontation with forces far beyond his reach.

Denis Johnson’s epic novel follows CIA operative Skip Sands, whose psychological‑operations work in Vietnam exposes the blurred lines between friend and foe amid the chaos of war.

A high‑stakes thriller in which a Russian SVR agent secretly works for the CIA while navigating an assassination plot, a double agent, and a forbidden romance with her handler.

Born in the wake of World War II, RAND quickly became the creator of America’s anti-Soviet nuclear strategy. A magnet for the best and the brightest, its ranks included Cold War luminaries such as Albert Wohlstetter, Bernard Brodie, and Herman Kahn, who arguably saved us from nuclear annihilation and unquestionably created Eisenhower’s "military-industrial complex." In the Kennedy era, RAND analysts and their theories of rational warfare steered our conduct in Vietnam. Those same theories drove our invasion of Iraq forty-five years later, championed by RAND affiliated actors such as Paul Wolfowitz, Donald Rumsfeld, and Zalmay Khalilzad. But RAND’s greatest contribution might be its least known: rational choice theory, a model explaining all human behavior through self-interest. Through it RAND sparked the Reagan-led transformation of our social and economic system but also unleashed a resurgence of precisely the forces whose existence it denied -- religion, patriotism, tribalism. With Soldiers of Reason, Alex Abella has rewritten the history of America’s last half century and cast a new light on our problematic present.

A thrilling exploration of the United States' elite military commandos and special operations forces, set against the backdrop of American history and military policy, through the eyes of a seasoned commando and a historian who uncovers the dark secrets of the elite elite commandos that shape American history's darkest chapters.

In 1946 Munich, two Women Airforce Service Pilots fight off Soviet NKGB agents, killing three attackers and setting off a chain of events that reverberates through the nascent CIA.

A CIA analyst in Kabul is dispatched to investigate a compromised station, uncovering drug smuggling and a betrayal that threatens U.S. forces and lives in Afghanistan.