7 best-selling true crime books like Spyfail: Foreign Spies, Moles, Saboteurs, and the Collapse of America’s Counterintelligence by James Bamford

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Spyfail: Foreign Spies, Moles, Saboteurs, and the Collapse of America’s Counterintelligence

By: James Bamford

3.64

Format: 496 pages, Hardcover

James Bamford, the bestselling author of  The Puzzle Palace  and  Body of Secrets , unveils a hidde…

If you liked the true crime plot in Spyfail: Foreign Spies, Moles, Saboteurs, and the Collapse of America’s Counterintelligence by James Bamford , here is a list of 7 books like this:

1. Raven Rock: The Story of the U.S. Government’s Secret Plan to Save Itself -- While the Rest of Us Die

By: Garrett M. Graff

3.67

Format: 350 pages, Hardcover

A fresh window on American history: The eye-opening truth about the government's secret plans to su… read more

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2. Phantom Orbit

By: David Ignatius

4.10

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

A subtle and masterful novel from a prescient voice on the cutting edge of spy literature. David… read more

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  • espionage
  • audiobook
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3. Spies: The Epic Intelligence War Between East and West

By: Calder Walton

4.30

Format: 688 pages, Hardcover

The riveting, untold story of the hundred-year intelligence war between Russia and the West with le… read more

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  • espionage
  • american history
  • history
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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4. Chip War: The Fight for the World's Most Critical Technology

By: Chris Miller

4.44

Format: 464 pages, Hardcover

An epic account of the decades-long battle to control what has emerged as the world's most critical… read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"Comrade, we have built the world’s biggest microprocessor!"

-Chris Miller, Chip War: The Fight for the World's Most Critical Technology

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5. 2054

By: Elliot Ackerman

3.46

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

From the acclaimed authors of the runaway New York Times bestseller 2034 comes another explosive wo… read more

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  • politics
  • audiobook
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6. Nuclear War: A Scenario

By: Annie Jacobsen

4.47

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

There is only one scenario other than an asteroid strike that could end the world as we know it in … read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"The fundamental idea behind this book is to demonstrate, in appalling detail, just how horrifying nuclear war would be."

-Annie Jacobsen, Nuclear War: A Scenario

"Humans are wired to advance. Humans do whatever it takes. And yet, nuclear war zeros it all out. Nuclear weapons reduce human brilliance and ingenuity, love and desire, empathy and intellect, to ash."

-Annie Jacobsen, Nuclear War: A Scenario

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7. Moscow X (Damascus Station #2)

By: David McCloskey

4.30

Format: 454 pages, Hardcover

A daring CIA operation threatens chaos in the Kremlin. But can Langley trust the Russian at its cen… read more

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  • espionage
  • politics
  • audiobook
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8. The Abyss: Nuclear Crisis Cuba 1962

By: Max Hastings

4.40

Format: 538 pages, Hardcover

Bestselling author Max Hastings offers a welcome re-evaluation of one of the most gripping and tens… read more

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  • american history
  • history
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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9. Code Name Blue Wren: The True Story of America's Most Dangerous Female Spy―and the Sister She Betrayed

By: Jim Popkin

3.77

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

10 hours, 24 minutes The incredible true story of Ana Montes, the most damaging female spy in U… read more

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  • espionage
  • american history
  • history
  • true crime
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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10. The Unit: My Life Fighting Terrorists as One of America's Most Secret Military Operatives

By: Adam Gamal

3.90

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

The first and only book to ever be written by a member of America's most secret military unit―an ex… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
  • audiobook
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11. Russians Among Us: Sleeper Cells, Ghost Stories, and the Hunt for Putin's Spies

By: Gordon Corera

4.27

Format: 448 pages, Hardcover

The full, explosive story for the first time: Putin’s espionage campaign against the West, how i… read more

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  • espionage
  • history
  • true crime
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Indigenous Continent: The Epic Contest for North America by Pekka Hämäläinen

12. Indigenous Continent: The Epic Contest for North America

By: Pekka Hämäläinen

4.05

Format: 592 pages, Hardcover

There is an old, deeply rooted story about America that goes like this: Columbus “discovers” a stra… read more

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  • american history
  • history
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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13. These Are the Plunderers: How Private Equity Runs—and Wrecks—America

By: Gretchen Morgenson

3.70

Format: 400 pages, ebook

WALL STREET JOURNAL BESTSELLER Pulitzer Prize–winning and New York Times bestselling financial jour… read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of New Cold Wars: China's Rise, Russia's Invasion, and America's Struggle to Defend the West by David E. Sanger

14. New Cold Wars: China's Rise, Russia's Invasion, and America's Struggle to Defend the West

By: David E. Sanger

4.37

Format: 528 pages, Hardcover

A fast-paced account of America’s plunge into simultaneous Cold Wars against two very different adv… read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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15. Spyfail: Foreign Spies, Moles, Saboteurs, and the Collapse of America’s Counterintelligence

By: James Bamford

3.64

Format: 496 pages, Hardcover

James Bamford, the bestselling author of  The Puzzle Palace  and  Body of Secrets , unveils a hidde… read more

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  • espionage
  • american history
  • history
  • true crime
  • politics
  • united states
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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16. Spies, Lies, and Algorithms: The History and Future of American Intelligence

By: Amy B. Zegart

3.96

Format: 360 pages, Hardcover

A fascinating and authoritative account of espionage for the digital age, from one of America’s lea… read more

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  • espionage
  • history
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Pegasus: How a Spy in Your Pocket Threatens the End of Privacy, Dignity, and Democracy by Laurent  Richard

17. Pegasus: How a Spy in Your Pocket Threatens the End of Privacy, Dignity, and Democracy

By: Laurent Richard

3.89

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

Featuring an introduction by Rachel Maddow, Pegasus: How a Spy in Our Pocket Threatens the End of P… read more

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  • espionage
  • true crime
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Fat Leonard: How One Man Bribed, Bilked, and Seduced the U.S. Navy by Craig Whitlock

18. Fat Leonard: How One Man Bribed, Bilked, and Seduced the U.S. Navy

By: Craig Whitlock

4.39

Format: 480 pages, Hardcover

#1 New York Times bestselling author Craig Whitlock’s masterful account of one of the biggest publi… read more

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  • history
  • true crime
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"After a decade of U.S. wars and surging defense budgets, an expectation of special treatment had taken root in the Navy. Many officers felt they were owed something extra for enduring long deployment…"

-Craig Whitlock, Fat Leonard: How One Man Bribed, Bilked, and Seduced the U.S. Navy

Cover of Gray Day: My Undercover Mission to Expose America's First Cyber Spy by Eric  O'Neill

19. Gray Day: My Undercover Mission to Expose America's First Cyber Spy

By: Eric O'Neill

4.08

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

A cybersecurity expert and former FBI "ghost" tells the thrilling story of how he helped take down … read more

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  • history
  • true crime
  • politics
  • nonfiction
Cover of The Fourth Man: The Hunt for a KGB Spy at the Top of the CIA and the Rise of Putin's Russia by Robert B. Baer

20. The Fourth Man: The Hunt for a KGB Spy at the Top of the CIA and the Rise of Putin's Russia

By: Robert B. Baer

3.69

Format: 295 pages, Hardcover

The never-before-told story of the thrilling hunt for a KGB spy in the top ranks of the CIA and the… read more

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  • espionage
  • history
  • true crime
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Restricted Data: The History of Nuclear Secrecy in the United States by Alex Wellerstein

21. Restricted Data: The History of Nuclear Secrecy in the United States

By: Alex Wellerstein

4.18

Format: 528 pages, Hardcover

The first full history of US nuclear secrecy, from its origins in the late 1930s to our post–Cold W… read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction

18 Best audiobook books like Spyfail: Foreign Spies, Moles, Saboteurs, and the Collapse of America’s Counterintelligence by James Bamford

Transform Your Habits

Phantom Orbit

David Ignatius

4.10

Transform Your Habits

Spies: The Epic Intelligence War Between East and West

Calder Walton

4.30

Transform Your Habits

Chip War: The Fight for the World's Most Critical Technology

Chris Miller

4.44

Transform Your Habits

2054

Elliot Ackerman

3.46

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18 best-selling fiction books like Moscow X (Damascus Station #2) by David McCloskey

The Good Assassin (George Mueller #2)

Paul Vidich

3.96

Transform Your Habits

The Secret Hours

Mick Herron

4.29

Transform Your Habits

Phantom Orbit

David Ignatius

4.10

Transform Your Habits

The Peacock and the Sparrow

I.S. Berry

3.81

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