12 must-read espionage books like The Anatomy of a Spy: A History of Espionage and Betrayal by Michael Smith

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The Anatomy of a Spy: A History of Espionage and Betrayal

By: Michael Smith

3.90

Format: 394 pages, Kindle Edition

For fans of both real spy dramas and fictional ones—both Ben Macintyre and John le Carré—the story …

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1. The Doorbell Rang (Nero Wolfe, #41)

By: Rex Stout , Stuart M. Kaminsky

4.22

Format: 178 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Hired to help society widow Rachel Bruner foil bothersome Feds, Nero Wolfe and his able assistant A… read more

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"Afraid? I can dodge folly without backing into fear."

-Rex Stout, The Doorbell Rang (Nero Wolfe, #41)

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2. Hamas: A Beginner's Guide

By: Khaled Hroub

4.20

Format: 32 pages, Hardcover

An up-to-date analysis of the problems faced by Iran's Kurdish population read more

Similar categories in Khaled Hroub's Hamas: A Beginner's Guide book and Michael Smith's The Anatomy of a Spy: A History of Espionage and Betrayal

  • nonfiction
Cover of The King's Grave: The Discovery of Richard III’s Lost Burial Place and the Clues It Holds by None, Philippa Langley

3. The King's Grave: The Discovery of Richard III’s Lost Burial Place and the Clues It Holds

By: None , Philippa Langley

4.36

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

The first full-length book about the discover of Richard III's remains by the person who led the ar… read more

Similar categories in None's The King's Grave: The Discovery of Richard III’s Lost Burial Place and the Clues It Holds book and Michael Smith's The Anatomy of a Spy: A History of Espionage and Betrayal

  • history
  • nonfiction
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4. Our Man in Havana

By: Graham Greene

3.00

Format: 50 pages, Paperback

Mr. Wormold, a vacuum cleaner salesman in a city of powercuts, becomes a spy to earn extra income. read more

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  • espionage
Cover of The Dating Game Killer: The True Story of a TV Dating Show, a Violent Sociopath, and a Series of Brutal Murders by Stella Sands

5. The Dating Game Killer: The True Story of a TV Dating Show, a Violent Sociopath, and a Series of Brutal Murders

By: Stella Sands

3.82

Format: 254 pages, Paperback

In 1978, Rodney Alcala was a contestant on the "The Dating Game," one of America's most popular tel… read more

Similar categories in Stella Sands's The Dating Game Killer: The True Story of a TV Dating Show, a Violent Sociopath, and a Series of Brutal Murders book and Michael Smith's The Anatomy of a Spy: A History of Espionage and Betrayal

  • nonfiction
Cover of Damascus Station (Damascus Station #1) by David McCloskey

6. Damascus Station (Damascus Station #1)

By: David McCloskey

4.21

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

CIA case officer Sam Joseph is dispatched to Paris to recruit Syrian Palace official Mariam Haddad.… read more

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  • espionage
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7. Killing the Killers: The Secret War Against Terrorists

By: Bill O'Reilly

4.19

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

In the eleventh book in the multimillion-selling Killing series, Bill O’Reilly and Martin Dugard re… read more

Similar categories in Bill O'Reilly's Killing the Killers: The Secret War Against Terrorists book and Michael Smith's The Anatomy of a Spy: A History of Espionage and Betrayal

  • history
  • nonfiction
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8. The Bookseller of Inverness

By: S.G. MacLean

4.08

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

After Culloden, Iain MacGillivray was left for dead on Drumossie Moor. Wounded, his face brutally s… read more

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9. Vareda

By: Sven Mikser

3.99

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

Vahest ei tea kuueteistkümneaastane Johannes isegi, kas see on lõpuni läbi elamata lein surnud ment… read more

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10. The Peacock and the Sparrow

By: I.S. Berry

3.81

Format: 308 pages, Hardcover

WINNER OF THE EDGAR AWARD FOR BEST FIRST NOVEL • A NEW YORKER BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR • AN NPR BEST B… read more

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  • espionage
"Jimmy dealt in one of two limitless departments within the CIA - money and suspicion."

-I.S. Berry, The Peacock and the Sparrow

"I was free from the tangle of mistakes, promises, and defeats that grips a man's heels, taunts him with flashes of its sinewy strength."

-I.S. Berry, The Peacock and the Sparrow

"Nobody in espionage could justify sympathy. Right and wrong existed on paper, but in reality all that existed were the amorphous masses of in-between."

-I.S. Berry, The Peacock and the Sparrow

"At the end of the road, I've learned, espionage turns into a profession of ghosts. The culmination of actions taken or not taken, ends swallowed by means. A place where, even after you disappear, you…"

-I.S. Berry, The Peacock and the Sparrow

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11. Lembit Ulfsak

By: Eero Epner

4.57

Format: 482 pages, Hardcover

Mälestusi Lembit Ulfsak ei kirjutanud. „See ei huvita mind,“ rääkis ta ükskord ajakirjanikule, „ma … read more

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12. Last Call: A True Story of Love, Lust, and Murder in Queer New York

By: Elon Green

3.84

Format: 258 pages, Hardcover

The gripping true story, told here for the first time, of the Last Call Killer and the gay communit… read more

Similar categories in Elon Green's Last Call: A True Story of Love, Lust, and Murder in Queer New York book and Michael Smith's The Anatomy of a Spy: A History of Espionage and Betrayal

  • history
  • nonfiction
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13. Putinin trollit: Tositarinoita Venäjän infosodan rintamilta

By: Jessikka Aro

4.02

Format: 453 pages, Hardcover

Kirja, jota luet kuin tosielämän agenttitarinaa. Journalistinen jännityskertomus modernin inform… read more

Similar categories in Jessikka Aro's Putinin trollit: Tositarinoita Venäjän infosodan rintamilta book and Michael Smith's The Anatomy of a Spy: A History of Espionage and Betrayal

  • history
  • nonfiction
Cover of Blood & Ink: An Heiress, a Tabloid War, and the Unsolved Double Murder That Hooked America on True Crime by Joe Pompeo

14. Blood & Ink: An Heiress, a Tabloid War, and the Unsolved Double Murder That Hooked America on True Crime

By: Joe Pompeo

3.58

Format: 344 pages, Hardcover

Vanity Fair's Joe Pompeo investigates the notorious 1922 double murder of a high-society minister a… read more

Similar categories in Joe Pompeo's Blood & Ink: An Heiress, a Tabloid War, and the Unsolved Double Murder That Hooked America on True Crime book and Michael Smith's The Anatomy of a Spy: A History of Espionage and Betrayal

  • history
  • nonfiction
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15. Grey Bees

By: Andrey Kurkov

4.07

Format: 349 pages, Paperback

49-year-old safety inspector-turned-beekeeper Sergey Sergeich, wants little more than to help his b… read more

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16. The Naked Don't Fear the Water: An Underground Journey with Afghan Refugees

By: Matthieu Aikins

4.18

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

In this extraordinary book, an acclaimed young war reporter chronicles a dangerous journey on the s… read more

Similar categories in Matthieu Aikins's The Naked Don't Fear the Water: An Underground Journey with Afghan Refugees book and Michael Smith's The Anatomy of a Spy: A History of Espionage and Betrayal

  • history
  • nonfiction
Cover of Deliberate Cruelty: Truman Capote, the Millionaire's Wife, and the Murder of the Century by Roseanne Montillo

17. Deliberate Cruelty: Truman Capote, the Millionaire's Wife, and the Murder of the Century

By: Roseanne Montillo

3.68

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Exploring the darkly intertwined fates of infamous socialite Ann Woodward and literary icon Truman … read more

Similar categories in Roseanne Montillo's Deliberate Cruelty: Truman Capote, the Millionaire's Wife, and the Murder of the Century book and Michael Smith's The Anatomy of a Spy: A History of Espionage and Betrayal

  • history
  • nonfiction
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18. Agent Running in the Field

By: John Le Carré

3.85

Format: 282 pages, Hardcover

Nat, a 47 year-old veteran of Britain’s Secret Intelligence Service, believes his years as an agent… read more

Similar categories in John Le Carré's Agent Running in the Field book and Michael Smith's The Anatomy of a Spy: A History of Espionage and Betrayal

  • espionage
"Beloof niets waar je niet op kunt terugkomen."

-John Le Carré, Agent Running in the Field

"O cartaz seguinte anuncia as características curativas dos famosos banhos. Não há nenhum cartaz a anunciar que a cidade também é célebre como o local de encontro preferido da fina-flor do crime organ…"

-John Le Carré, Agent Running in the Field

"Para quem tem acesso autorizado à Poeira de Estrelas, o espetáculo começa dentro de cinquenta e cinco minutos. Para quem não tem, há dois funcionários com olhos de águia à porta que terão todo o gost…"

-John Le Carré, Agent Running in the Field

"It is my considered opinion, that for Britain and Europe, and for liberal democracy across the entire world as a whole, Britain’s departure from the European Union in the time of Donald Trump, and Br…"

-John Le Carré, Agent Running in the Field

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19. Black Ops: The Life of a CIA Shadow Warrior

By: Ric Prado

3.96

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

The Explosive National Bestseller A memoir by the highest-ranking covert warrior to lift the veil … read more

Similar categories in Ric Prado's Black Ops: The Life of a CIA Shadow Warrior book and Michael Smith's The Anatomy of a Spy: A History of Espionage and Betrayal

  • espionage
  • history
  • nonfiction
Cover of The Confidante: The Untold Story of the Woman Who Helped Win WWII and Shape Modern America by Christopher C. Gorham

20. The Confidante: The Untold Story of the Woman Who Helped Win WWII and Shape Modern America

By: Christopher C. Gorham

4.32

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

Perfect for readers of A Woman of No Importance, Three Ordinary Girls, and Eleanor: A Life comes th… read more

Similar categories in Christopher C. Gorham's The Confidante: The Untold Story of the Woman Who Helped Win WWII and Shape Modern America book and Michael Smith's The Anatomy of a Spy: A History of Espionage and Betrayal

  • history
  • nonfiction
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21. The Sisterhood: The Secret History of Women at the CIA

By: Liza Mundy

4.23

Format: 400 pages, Kindle Edition

A thrilling and monumental new history of the CIA that reveals how women have always played crucial… read more

Similar categories in Liza Mundy's The Sisterhood: The Secret History of Women at the CIA book and Michael Smith's The Anatomy of a Spy: A History of Espionage and Betrayal

  • espionage
  • history
  • nonfiction
Cover of The Scandalous Hamiltons: A Gilded Age Grifter, a Founding Father's Disgraced Descendant, and a Trial at the Dawn of Tabloid Journalism by Bill Shaffer

22. The Scandalous Hamiltons: A Gilded Age Grifter, a Founding Father's Disgraced Descendant, and a Trial at the Dawn of Tabloid Journalism

By: Bill Shaffer

3.63

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

An Alexander Hamilton heir, a beautiful female con artist, an abandoned baby, and the shocking cour… read more

Similar categories in Bill Shaffer's The Scandalous Hamiltons: A Gilded Age Grifter, a Founding Father's Disgraced Descendant, and a Trial at the Dawn of Tabloid Journalism book and Michael Smith's The Anatomy of a Spy: A History of Espionage and Betrayal

  • history
  • nonfiction
Cover of How Spies Think: Ten Lessons in Intelligence by David Omand

23. How Spies Think: Ten Lessons in Intelligence

By: David Omand

3.67

Format: 344 pages, Hardcover

From the former director of GCHQ, learn the methodology used by the British intelligence agencies t… read more

Similar categories in David Omand's How Spies Think: Ten Lessons in Intelligence book and Michael Smith's The Anatomy of a Spy: A History of Espionage and Betrayal

  • espionage
  • history
  • nonfiction
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24. The Lehman Trilogy

By: Stefano Massini

4.25

Format: 720 pages, Hardcover

Magnificent in scope,  internationally lauded, and transcendent, the novel in verse that inspired t… read more

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Cover of Spymaster: The Man Who Saved MI6 by Helen Fry

25. Spymaster: The Man Who Saved MI6

By: Helen Fry

3.92

Format: 360 pages, Hardcover

The dramatic story of a man who stood at the center of British intelligence operations, the ultimat… read more

Similar categories in Helen Fry's Spymaster: The Man Who Saved MI6 book and Michael Smith's The Anatomy of a Spy: A History of Espionage and Betrayal

  • espionage
  • history
  • nonfiction
Cover of Hamas Contained: The Rise and Pacification of Palestinian Resistance (Stanford Studies in Middle Eastern and Islamic Societies and Cultures) by Tareq Baconi

26. Hamas Contained: The Rise and Pacification of Palestinian Resistance (Stanford Studies in Middle Eastern and Islamic Societies and Cultures)

By: Tareq Baconi

4.28

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

Hamas rules Gaza and the lives of the two million Palestinians who live there. Demonized in media a… read more

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  • history
  • nonfiction
"The prevailing inability or unwillingness to talk about Hamas in a nuanced manner is deeply familiar. During the summer of 2014, when global newsrooms were covering Israel’s military operation in the…"

-Tareq Baconi, Hamas Contained: The Rise and Pacification of Palestinian Resistance (Stanford Studies in Middle Eastern and Islamic Societies and Cultures)

Cover of War of Shadows: Codebreakers, Spies, and the Secret Struggle to Drive the Nazis from the Middle East by Gershom Gorenberg

27. War of Shadows: Codebreakers, Spies, and the Secret Struggle to Drive the Nazis from the Middle East

By: Gershom Gorenberg

4.05

Format: 496 pages, Hardcover

An award-winning journalist and historian tells the story of the Nazis' brutal march into Egypt, wh… read more

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  • espionage
  • history
  • nonfiction
Cover of The Spymasters: How the CIA Directors Shape History and the Future by Chris Whipple

28. The Spymasters: How the CIA Directors Shape History and the Future

By: Chris Whipple

4.06

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

From the New York Times bestselling author of The Gatekeepers, a remarkable, behind-the-scenes look… read more

Similar categories in Chris Whipple's The Spymasters: How the CIA Directors Shape History and the Future book and Michael Smith's The Anatomy of a Spy: A History of Espionage and Betrayal

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

29. 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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  • history
  • nonfiction
Cover of Need to Know: World War II and the Rise of American Intelligence by Nicholas E. Reynolds

30. Need to Know: World War II and the Rise of American Intelligence

By: Nicholas E. Reynolds

3.90

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

Historian and former CIA officer Nicholas Reynolds, the New York Times bestselling author of Writer… read more

Similar categories in Nicholas E. Reynolds's Need to Know: World War II and the Rise of American Intelligence book and Michael Smith's The Anatomy of a Spy: A History of Espionage and Betrayal

  • espionage
  • history
  • nonfiction
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31. The Anatomy of a Spy: A History of Espionage and Betrayal

By: Michael Smith

3.90

Format: 394 pages, Kindle Edition

For fans of both real spy dramas and fictional ones—both Ben Macintyre and John le Carré—the story … read more

Similar categories in Michael Smith's The Anatomy of a Spy: A History of Espionage and Betrayal book and Michael Smith's The Anatomy of a Spy: A History of Espionage and Betrayal

  • espionage
  • history
  • nonfiction

19 Top history books like The Anatomy of a Spy: A History of Espionage and Betrayal by Michael Smith

Transform Your Habits

The King's Grave: The Discovery of Richard III’s Lost Burial Place and the Clues It Holds

None , Philippa Langley

4.36

Transform Your Habits

Killing the Killers: The Secret War Against Terrorists

Bill O'Reilly

4.19

Transform Your Habits

Last Call: A True Story of Love, Lust, and Murder in Queer New York

Elon Green

3.84

Transform Your Habits

Putinin trollit: Tositarinoita Venäjän infosodan rintamilta

Jessikka Aro

4.02

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18 best-selling british literature books like Agent Running in the Field by John le Carré

Transform Your Habits

Smoke and Whispers (The Oxford Investigations, #4)

Mick Herron

4.02

Transform Your Habits

The Ipcress File (Secret File, #1)

Len Deighton

3.93

Transform Your Habits

Down Cemetery Road (The Oxford Investigations, #1)

Mick Herron

3.89

Transform Your Habits

London Match (Bernard Samson, #3)

Len Deighton

3.59

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