Books like Killer Spy by Peter Maas

Joseph Conrad’s 1907 political thriller follows London spy Adolf Verloc as he navigates anarchism, espionage and moral compromise, revealing a bleak portrait of the city and the exploitation of the vulnerable.

The Billion Dollar Spy traces how Soviet engineer Adolf Tolkachev supplied the CIA with tens of thousands of classified pages on aviation technology, turning Cold‑War espionage into a decisive American advantage.

John le Carré’s Cold‑War spy thriller follows British agent Alec Leamas as he takes one last perilous assignment to outwit East German intelligence.

Robert Baer, renowned CIA operative, balances a career in the Middle East with a strained marriage and paternity, while his wife Dayna evolves from a California girl to a seasoned intelligence officer facing the personal costs of espionage.

"Executions, kidnappings, the assassination of Leon Trotsky, the plunder of gold from the Spanish treasury, Joseph Stalin's "horrible secret" - historical events and classified matters like these are cast in startling new light by KGB General Alexander Orlov, the subject of this riveting and unprecedented memoir by FBI Special Agent Edward Gazur.". "A veteran in East European counter-espionage investigations, Gazur was the final agent assigned to one of the FBI's most fascinating cases - that of the highest-ranking KGB defector ever, General Alexander Orlov. The two men met in 1971, and over the course of their debriefing sessions Gazur learned more of the astonishing details behind the story of Orlov's spectacular disappearance from Soviet intelligence at the height of the Spanish Civil War. With the mine of information he had amassed about his superiors and Stalin's official purges, Orlov fled in 1938 to the United States, where he lived in hiding from both the FBI and KGB for fifteen years. In 1953 he came in from the Cold War, and many of his revelations to the FBI about Stalin's Soviet and life behind the Iron Curtain later found their way into Orlov's best-selling book, The Secret History of Stalin's Crimes, as well as a special issue of Life magazine.". "Gazur did more than debrief Orlov, however. He also befriended the Bolshevik general - and thus became the sole possessor and literary executor of Orlov's as yet unpublished memoir, "The March of Time," in which he recorded other, darker secrets about the dictator behind the brutal Soviet purges and repressive policies. Alexander Orlov: The FBI's KGB General reveals those secrets for the first time in a compelling and authentic account of Stalin's brutal regime and KGB operations in the Cold War. At the same time, it unfolds the chronicle of the FBI's investigation into the life and mysterious death of one man whom even Stalin feared."--BOOK JACKET.

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.

Two seasoned Time magazine reporters chronicle the explosive story of Robert Hanssen, one of America’s most infamous spies, revealing the shocking depths of his espionage scandal.

A gripping account of Aldrich “Rick” Ames, the most destructive CIA spy of the Cold War, and the decades‑long intrigue that uncovered his betrayal.

In the shadow of post‑Soviet Russia, a Soviet intelligence officer, trained as a seductress, confronts a CIA operative whose daring penetration threatens both men’s careers and the fragile balance of power.