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1) The billion dollar spy: a true story of Cold War espionage and betrayal

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#8 on the Espionage list for 2017-01-15.

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While getting into his car on the evening of February 16, 1978, the chief of the CIA's Moscow station was handed an envelope by an unknown Russian. Its contents stunned the Americans: details of top-secret Soviet research and development in military technology that was totally unknown to the United States. From 1979 to 1985, Adolf Tolkachev, an engineer at a military research center, cracked open the secret Soviet military research establishment,...

2) George Washington's secret six: the spy ring that saved the American Revolution

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Kilmeade, Brian

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#3 on the Espionage list for 2017-01-15.

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When General George Washington beat a hasty retreat from New York City in August 1776, many thought the American Revolution might soon be over. Instead, Washington rallied--thanks in large part to a little-known, top-secret group called the Culper Spy Ring. Washington realized that he couldn't beat the British with military might, so he recruited a sophisticated and deeply secretive intelligence network to infiltrate New York. So carefully guarded...

3) Red notice: a true story of high finance, murder, and one man's fight for justice

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Browder, Bill

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#7 on the Espionage list for 2017-01-15.

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Bill Browder's journey started on the South Side of Chicago and moved through Stanford Business School to the dog-eat-dog world of hedge fund investing in the 1990s. It continued in Moscow, where Browder made his fortune heading the largest investment fund in Russia after the Soviet Union's collapse. But when he exposed the corrupt oligarchs who were robbing the companies in which he was investing, Vladimir Putin turned on him and, in 2005, had him...

4) Rogue heroes: the history of the SAS, Britain's secret special forces unit that sabotaged the Nazis and changed the nature of war

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Macintyre, Ben

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#1 on the Espionage list for 2017-01-15.

5) Secret service dogs: the heroes who protect the President of the United States

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Goodavage, Maria

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#5 on the Espionage list for 2017-01-15.

6) The Secret War: Spies, Ciphers, and Guerrillas, 1939-1945

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Hastings, Max

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#4 on the Espionage list for 2017-01-15.

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"Monumental." —New York Times Book Review

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER

From one of the foremost historians of the period and the acclaimed author of Inferno and Catastrophe: 1914, The Secret War is a sweeping examination of one of the most important yet underexplored aspects of World War II—intelligence—showing how espionage successes and failures by the United States, Britain, Russia,

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7) The spy who couldn't spell: a dyslexic traitor, an unbreakable code, and the FBI's hunt for America's stolen secrets

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Bhattacharjee, Yudhijit

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#10 on the Espionage list for 2017-01-15.

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Before Edward Snowden's infamous data breach, the largest theft of government secrets was committed by an ingenious traitor whose intricate espionage scheme and complex system of coded messages were made even more baffling by his dyslexia. His name is Brian Regan, but he came to be known as the 'Spy Who Couldn't Spell' ... In this ... true-life spy thriller, Yudhijit Bhattacharjee reveals how the FBI unraveled Regan's strange web of codes to build...