Books like The perfect kill by Robert Baer

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.

A definitive, document‑rich history of the CIA, revealing why presidents and CIA leaders have struggled to grasp global realities and how repeated failures have threatened U.S. national security.

A revealing portrait of Allen Dulles, the CIA’s longest‑serving director, uncovering his influence over U.S. policy, covert operations, and alleged links to assassinations and global intrigue.

Commander of the CIA and NSA Michael Hayden tells the inside story of America’s intelligence wars, detailing how his "play to the edge" philosophy shaped the nation’s response to terrorism, technology and surveillance.

During the Second World War, MI5 and British naval intelligence engineer Operation Mincemeat—feigning an invasion of Greece and Sardinia by sending a corpse laced with false documents off the coast of Spain to trick the Nazis and pave the way for the invasion of Sicily.

A CIA operative infiltrates a Palestinian unit amid Lebanon’s factional turmoil, forging a covert alliance with Fatah intelligence amid pervasive mistruths and terrorism.

James, a young Cherubs agent, investigates the crook Leon and uncovers a dangerous conspiracy—only a dead 18‑year‑old boy could reveal the truth.

Henry Crumpton, a former CIA counterterrorism officer, recounts his covert operations against al Qaeda and the Taliban, detailing the agency’s strategic shift in the Afghanistan war and its impact on U.S. national security.

“[The United States’ goal in Angola] was not to keep out the Cubans and Soviets but to make their imperial efforts as costly as possible and to prove that, after Vietnam. we were still capable of response, however insane. It is this story that has been told, and in impressive and convincing detail, by John Stockweli, the former chief of the CIA’s Angola task force.’ His hook should not he missed. Since strategic thought survives by ignoring experience, it has a highly professional interest in avoiding accounts such as this. By the same token, all who are alarmed about the tendency toward such strategic thinking should strongly welcome Mr. Stockwell’s book.” —John Kenneth Gaibraith. New York Review of Books In Search of Enemies is much more than the story of the only war to be found when the CIA sought to recoup its prestige after the Vietnam debacle. Though no American troops were committed to Angola, only “advisors,” many millions were spent, many thousands died, and many lies were told to the American people, in waging a war without purpose to American vital interests and without hope of victory. In Search of Enemies is unique in its wealth of detail about CIA operations and convincing in its argument that the clandestine services of the CIA should be abolished. John Stockwell, who lived in Africa for ten of his early years, is a graduate of the University of Texas and an alumnus of the U.S. Marine Corps. After twelve years as a CIA officer, he resigned from the agency on April I. 1977

Intriguing biography of Mary Meyer, a witness to John F. Kennedy's murder, and the United States' central intelligence agency's investigation into the event.

James Jesus Angleton, CIA spymaster and powerful unelected official, wielded hidden influence from WWII through the Cold War, overseeing MKULTRA, surveillance of Americans, and the hunt for Soviet moles, while engaging in controversial political and intelligence actions.

A comprehensive look at World War II intelligence operations, detailing how espionage, cryptography, and underground movements by the US, Britain, Russia, Germany, and Japan shaped the war’s course and outcome.