Books like The catcher was a spy by Nicholas Dawidoff

A Soviet nuclear submarine marked for defection slips into the Atlantic, sparking a high‑stakes pursuit by the United States and the Soviet Union in this tense Cold War thriller.

A biography of Oleg Gordievsky, the Soviet double‑agent who, while working undercover in the KGB, supplied MI6 with critical intelligence that accelerated the collapse of the Cold War.

Eddie Chapman, a charismatic con‑man turned double agent, seduced, deceived, and ultimately betrayed both Nazi and British intelligence—revealing the fraught loyalties of wartime espionage.

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.

After years of struggling on the dime museum circuit, Harry Houdini got a break that put him on the front page of a Chicago newspaper. Soon Houdini was performing for royalty, commanding vast sums, and exploring the new power of Hollywood. At a time when spy agencies frequently co-opted amateurs, Houdini developed a relationship with a man who would later run MI-5. For the next several years, the world's most famous magician traveled to Germany and Russia and routinely reported his findings. After World War I, Houdini embarked on a battle of his own, creating a group of operatives to infiltrate the seamy world of fake spirit mediums. In doing so, he triggered the wrath of fanatical Spiritualists, led by British author Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Death threats became an everyday occurrence, but the group would pose an even greater danger to Houdini's legacy.--From publisher description.

Marie‑Madeleine Fourcade, a Frenchwoman born into privilege, led the largest spy network in occupied France during World War II, gathering crucial intelligence that helped plan D‑Day and supporting the resistance against the Nazis.

A detailed account of the Double Cross System, the covert network that turned German spies into double agents and deceived Hitler into misdirecting his forces, enabling the successful D‑Day invasion of Normandy.