Books like The spy and the traitor by Ben Macintyre

Jack 1939 is a travel‑oriented suspense thriller set amid 1939 Europe, exploring espionage activities between American and German actors against the backdrop of looming war.

A masterful spy thriller set during World War II, Agent Garbo tells the true story of Juan Pujol, a Barcelona poultry farmer who rose to become one of the most brilliant spies in history.

A Cuban intelligence service officer and a CIA director must team up to uncover a legendary treasure and stop a dangerous Mexican drug cartel.

Ken Follett follows his bestsellers Jackdaws and Code to Zero with an extraordinary novel of early days of World War II...It is June 1941 and the war is not going well for England. Across the North Sea, eighteen-year-old Harald Olufsen takes a shortcut on the German-occupied Danish island of Sande an discovers an astonishing sight that will change the momentum of the war. He must get word to England-except that he has no way to get there. He has only an old derelict Hornet Moth biplane rusting away in a ruined church: a plane so decrepit that it is unlikely ever to get off the ground...even if Harald knew how to fly it."Follett...hits the mark again with this dramatic and tragic tale...[He] starts out fast and keeps up the pace." -Publishers Weekly

Peter Lance’s investigative work argues that U.S. agency actions and political motives suppressed key evidence about the 9/11 attacks, questioning official narratives and the 9/11 Commission’s findings.

When corporate titan Christian Gillette is summoned to a secret meeting at Camp David, he must navigate a high‑stakes plot to install a capitalist junta in Cuba amid threats that span from Havana to Washington, D.C.

A gripping insider’s account of the CIA’s cutting-edge gadgets and operations, based on never-before-seen illustrations.

A first‑hand account of the Watergate scandal from H. R. Haldeman, detailing events, key figures, and the political climate of 1972–1974.

A sweeping, first‑hand account of American intelligence, tracing key espionage and covert operations from the Revolution to the present and showing how secrecy shaped U.S. history.

Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist David A. Vise uncovers the life and secrets of Robert Philip Hanssen, a devoted FBI counterintelligence agent who became a Russian spy for decades.

**The Yogi and the Commissar** (1945) is a collection of essays of Arthur Koestler, divided in three parts: Meanderings, Exhortations and Explorations. In the first two parts he has collected essays written from 1942 to 1945 and the third part was written especially for this book. In the title essay, Koestler proposes a continuum of philosophies for achieving "heaven on earth", from the Commissar at the materialist, scientific end of the spectrum, to the Yogi at the spiritual, metaphysical end. The Commissar wants to change society using any means necessary, while the Yogi wants to change the individual, with an emphasis on ethical purity instead of on results. (Source: [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Yogi_and_the_Commissar))

Exploring the rise of Joseph McCarthy, America's anti-communist crusader.

A thriller about a World War II spy network and their desperate efforts to protect their agents from capture or death.

A detailed account of Israeli intelligence operations gathering strategic information for the CIA and its participation in covert military support across the globe.

A unique, unprecedented look at the inner workings of our domestic secret service by a leading investigative reporter. An alarming portrait of incompetence -- and worse -- inside the agency that is supposed to protect us from terrorism. Canada’s espionage agency enjoys operating deep in the shadows. Set up as a civilian force in the early eighties after the RCMP spy service was abolished for criminal excesses, no news is good news for the Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS). This country’s spymasters work diligently to prevent journalists, politicians and watchdog agencies from prying into their secret world. Few journalists have come close to rivalling Andrew Mitrovica at unveiling the stories CSIS does not want told. In Covert Entry, the award-winning investigative reporter uncovers a disturbing pattern of corruption, law-breaking and incompetence deep inside the service, and provides readers with a troubling window on its daily operations. At its core, Covert Entry traces the eventful career of a veteran undercover operative who worked on some of the service’s most sensitive cases and was ordered to break the law by senior CSIS officers, in the name of national security. Like Philip Agee’s Inside the Company: CIA Diary, Mitrovica’s book delivers a ground-level, day-to-day look at who is actually running the show in clandestine operations inside Canada. The picture he paints does not fill one with confidence and definitively shatters the myth that CSIS respects the rights and liberties it is charged with protecting. From the Hardcover edition.

Detective Petric, a lone survivor in Sarajevo during a civil war, pursues the wrong people.

Describes how and why women become terrorists and suicide bombers and looks at a variety of terrorist groups and activities around the world.

A thrilling espionage story of World War II

A collection of historical documents revealing CIA's secret brainwashing and biological warfare operations in the US.

A group of executives is held hostage in a luxurious business retreat by a group of backwoods hunters, with the goal of demanding a ransom of unprecedented size.

A nonfiction account that examines how the COVID‑19 pandemic unfolded within the United States government, exploring political challenges and policy responses between 2017 and 2021.

Quiet Americans is Scott Anderson’s in-depth look at the United States Central Intelligence Agency’s covert operations during the Cold War, revealing how intelligence officers shaped global events.