Spies, Spooks, Assassins, and Other Shadowy Characters

This list offers a selection of novels, nonfiction books and DVDs. These materials deal with spies, espionage, or assassins. It is not comprehensive. If what you are looking for is not here, or if you are interested in other topics, please Ask Us!

FICTION:

The Spirit of Liberty, Ted Allbeury

Deliver Us from Evil, David Baldacci

The Shadow Patrol, Alex Berenson*

Kiloton Threat, William G. [Jerry] Boykin and Tom Morrisey

Stephen Coonts’ Deep Black: Sea of Terror, Stephen Coonts*

A Foreign Country, Charles Cumming*

Lehrter Station, David Downing*

The Blind Spy, Alex Dryden*

Last to Fold, David Duffy

Sentinel, Matthew Dunn*

The Prague Cemetery, Umberto Eco

Pandora’s Box, Clive Egleton

Inside Out, Barry Eisler*

Devil May Care, Sebastian Faulks writing as Ian Fleming

The Double Game, Dan Fesperman*

Red Star Burning: A Thriller, Brian Freemantle*

Robert Ludlum’s The Janus Reprisal, Jamie Freveletti*

Mission to Paris, Alan Furst*

The Tehran Conviction, Tom Gabbay

Robert Ludlum’s The Janson Command, Paul Garrison*

Spook Country, William Gibson

The Swiss Courier, Tricia Goyer & Mike Yorkey

The Spymasters, W.E.B. Griffin*

Castro’s Daughter, David Hagberg*

A Devil is Waiting, Jack Higgins*

Shake Off, Mischa Hiller

Bloodmoney, David Ignatius*

Goodbye Mexico, Phillip Jennings*

Istanbul Passage, Joseph Kanon

Scorpion Betrayal, Andrew Kaplan*

Field Gray: A Bernie Gunther Novel, Philip Kerr*

House Justice: A Joe DeMarco Thriller, Mike Lawson

Our Kind of Traitor, John le Carré*

Robert Ludlum’s The Bourne Imperative: A New Jason Bourne Novel, Eric Van Lustbader*

The Book of Spies, Gayle Lynds

The Prisoner’s Wife, Gerard Macdonald

Hunt the Wolf: A SEAL Team Six Novel, Don Mann

Girl in a Box, Sujata Massey

Jack 1939, Francine Mathews

Trapeze, Simon Mawer

The Colonel’s Mistake, Dan Mayland

The Mistaken Wife, Rose Melikan*

Washington Shadow, Aly Monroe*

The Silent Oligarch, Chris Morgan Jones

The Expats, Chris Pavone

The Risk Agent, Ridley Pearson

Seahawk Burning: A Third Novel of the Civil War at Sea, Randall S. Peffer*

The Bell Ringers, Henry Porter*

Blasphemy, Douglas Preston

Rules of Betrayal, Christopher Reich*

Scarecrow Returns, Matthew Reilly

The Geneva Trap: A Liz Carlyle Novel, Stella Rimington*

The Fallen Angel, Daniel Silva*

Assegai, Wilbur Smith

An American Spy, Olen Steinhauer*

Games Traitors Play, Jon Stock*

The Skorpion Directive, David Stone*

Twice a Spy, Keith Thomson*

The Black List: A Thriller, Brad Thor*

*one of a number of “spy” novels by this author

NONFICTION:

The Spy Within: Larry Chin and China’s Penetration of the CIA, Tod Hoffman  327.12 HOF

The Invisible Harry Gold: The Man Who Gave the Soviets the Atom Bomb, Allen M. Hornblum  327.12 HOR

Our Man in Mexico: Winston Scott and the Hidden History of the CIA, Jefferson Morley  327.12 MOR

Uncompromised: The Rise, Fall, and Redemption of an Arab American Patriot in the CIA, Nada Prouty  327.12 PRO

Fair Game, Valerie Plame Wilson  327.12 WIL

Expelled: A Journalist’s Descent into the Russian Mafia State, Luke Harding  327.120947 HAR

Operation Kronstadt: The True Story of Honor, Espionage, and the Rescue of Britain’s Greatest Spy, The Man with a Hundred Faces, Harry Ferguson  327.1241 FER

Deception: The Untold Story of East-West Espionage Today, Edward Lucas  327.1247 LUC

The Lost Spy: An American in Stalin’s Secret Service, Andrew Meier  327.1247 MEI

The Company We Keep: A Husband-and-Wife True-Life Spy Story, Robert and Dayna Baer  327.1273 BAE

The Interrogator: An Education, Glenn L. Carle  327.1273 CAR

The Art of Intelligence: Lessons from a Life in the CIA’s Clandestine Service, Henry A. Crumpton  327.1273 CRU

A Time To Betray: The Astonishing Double Life of a CIA Agent Inside the Revolutionary Guards of Iran, Reza Kahlili  327.1273 KAH

Tiger Trap: America’s Secret Spy War with China, David Wise  327.51 WIS

The Twilight War: The Secret History of America’s Thirty-Year Conflict with Iran, David Crist  327.73055 CRI

Special Agent Man: My Life in the FBI as a Terrorist Hunter, Helicopter Pilot, and Certified Sniper, Steve Moore  363.25 MOO

Ghost: Confessions of a Counterterrorism Agent, Fred Burton  363.325 BUR

The Triple Agent: The Al-Qaeda Mole Who Infiltrated the CIA, Joby Warrick  363.325 WAR

Broker, Trader, Lawyer, Spy: Inside the Secret World of Corporate Espionage, Eamon Javers  364.128 JAV

Strange Days Indeed: The 1970s: The Golden Age of Paranoia, Francis Wheen       909.827 WHE

The Fourth Horseman: One Man’s Secret Mission to Wage the Great War in America, Robert L. Koenig  940.485 KOE

Double Cross: The True Story of the D-Day Spies, Ben Macintyre  940.5421421 MAC

Shadow Knights: The Secret War Against Hitler, Gary Kamiya  940.5486 KAM

Hornet’s Sting: The Amazing Untold Story of World War II Spy Thomas Sneum, Mark Ryan  940.5486 RYA

The Irregulars: Roald Dahl and the British Spy Ring in Wartime Washington, Jennet Conant  940.548641 CON

The Hunt for Nazi Spies: Fighting Espionage in Vichy France, Simon Kitson       940.548644 KIT

The Axmann Conspiracy: The Nazi Plan for a Fourth Reich and How the U.S. Army Defeated It, Scott Andrew Selby  943.087 SEL

Operation Dark Heart: Spycraft and Special Ops on the Frontlines of Afghanistan—and the Path To Victory, Anthony Shaffer  958.1047 SCH

The Spy Who Loved Us: The Vietnam War and Pham Xuan An’s Dangerous Game, Thomas A. Bass  959.70438 BAS

Stealing Secrets: How a Few Daring Women Deceived Generals, Impacted Battles, and Altered the Course of the Civil War, H. Donald Winkler  973.7082 WIN

Edward Bancroft: Scientist, Author, Spy, Thomas J. Schaeper  B BANCROFT

Sleeping with the Enemy: Coco Chanel’s Secret War, Hal Vaughan  B CHANEL

Wild Bill Donovan: The Spymaster Who Created the OSS and Modern American Espionage, Douglas Waller  B DONOVAN

Nathan Hale: The Life and Death of America’s First Spy, M. William Phelps  B HALE

Alger Hiss: Why He Chose Treason, Christina Shelton  B HISS

DVDs, FICTION:

The Accidental Spy  DVD ACC

Alias  DVD ALI (SET)*

The AvengersDVD AVE+

Body of Lies  DVD BOD

Breach  DVD BRE

Burn Notice  DVD BUR (SET)*

Chuck  DVD CHU (SET)

Circles of Deceit  DVD CIR (SET)

The Departed  DVD DEP

Diamonds Are Forever  DVD DIA

Die Another Day  DVD DIE

The Double  DVD DOU

Double Identity  DVD DOU

The Equalizer  DVD EQU (SET)*

Eye of the Needle  DVD EYE

Farewell  DVD FAR

For Your Eyes Only  DVD FOR

From Russia with Love  DVD FRO

G-Force  DVD G

Get Smart  DVD GET

GoldenEye  DVD GOL

Goldfinger  DVD GOL

Gotcha!  DVD GOT

Haywire  DVD HAY

Homeland  DVD HOM (SET)

The Hour  DVD HOU (SET)

Infernal Affairs  DVD INF

J. Edgar  DVD J

Johnny English Reborn  DVD JOH

Knight and Day  DVD KNI

The Lady Vanishes  DVD LAD

Laser Mission  DVD LAS

Licence To Kill  DVD LIC

Live and Let Die  DVD LIV

The Living Daylights  DVD LIV

Man in a Suitcase  DVD MAN (SET)

The Man with the Golden Gun  DVD MAN

MI-5  DVD MI (SET)*

Missing  DVD MIS (SET)

Mission: Impossible  DVD MIS (SET)*

Mission: Impossible Ghost Protocol  DVD MIS

Mission: Impossible II  DVD MIS

Mission: Impossible III  DVD MIS

Mr. Palfrey of Westminster  DVD MR (SET)

Night Train to Munich  DVD NIG

North by Northwest  DVD NOR

Notorious  DVD NOT

Ian Fleming's On Her Majesty's Secret Service  DVD ON

Our Man Flint  DVD OUR

A Perfect Spy  DVD PER (SET)

Quantum of Solace  DVD QUA

Salt  DVD SAL

John le Carré's Smiley's People  DVD SMI (SET)  

Spy Game  DVD SPY

Spy in Black  DVD SPY

The Spy Who Came in from the Cold  DVD SPY

The Spy Who Loved Me  DVD SPY

The Sum of All Fears  DVD SUM

The 39 Steps  DVD THI

This Means War  DVD THI

3 Days of the Condor  DVD THR

Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy  DVD TIN (SET)

Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy  DVD TIN

A View to a Kill  DVD VIE

Wish Me Luck  DVD WIS (SET)*

The World Is Not Enough  DVD WOR

You Only Live Twice  DVD YOU

DVDs, NONFICTION:

The Man Nobody Knew: In Search of My Father, CIA Spymaster William Colby        327.12 MAN (DVD)

Heir to an Execution: A Granddaughter’s Story  364.131 HEI (DVD)

Garbo the Spy  940.548641 GAR (DVD)

* Television series with multiple DVDs per set. In some cases there are multiple seasons.
+ The Avengers television series may be found by year and volume in single cases, not in sets.

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