The Thirty-Nine Steps

John Buchan

1915 ★ 3.8

The Looming Tower

Lawrence Wright

2006 ★ 4.3

The Night Manager

John le Carré

1993 ★ 3.6

Legacy of Ashes

Tim Weiner

2007 ★ 4.2

Triple

Ken Follett

1979

Stone Cold

David Baldacci

2007 ★ 4.2

By way of deception

Victor Ostrovsky, Claire Hoy

1990 ★ 4.4

KGB

Oleg Gordievsky, Christopher Andrew

1991

Once Gone

Blake Pierce

2015

KGB

Oleg Gordievsky, Christopher M. Andrew, Christopher Andrew

1990

Chatter

Patrick Radden Keefe

2005

Secret Service

Christopher M. Andrew

1985

The invisible government

David Wise

1964

Spy

Richard Platt

1996

Blowing up Russia

Alexander Litvinenko, I͡Uriĭ Felʹshtinskiĭ

2007

Mossad

Ronald Payne

1991

Dangerous Liaison Inside

Andrew Cockburn, Cockburn, Andrew, Leslie Cockburn

1991

The U.S. intelligence community

Jeffrey Richelson

1985

The Iran-Contra connection

Peter David Scott, Jonathan Marshall, Jane Hunter

1987

Intelligence and intelligence analysis

Patrick F. Walsh

2011

Safe for democracy

John Prados

2007

The political economy of human rights

Noam Chomsky

1979

The 9/11 Commission report

National Commission on Terrorist Attacks upon the United States.

2004

The Grey Line

Andrew Brown

2011

Western intelligence and the collapse of the Soviet Union, 1980-1990

David Arbel

2003

Breakdown

Bill Gertz

2002

Precipice

Don Pendleton

2013

Come retribution

William A. Tidwell, James O. Hall, David Winfred Gaddy

1988

The Russian secret police

Ronald Hingley, R. Hingley

1970

Empire and Information

C.A. Bayly

2005