Bestsellers
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Catch and Kill
- Lies, Spies, and a Conspiracy to Protect Predators
- By: Ronan Farrow
- Narrated by: Ronan Farrow
- Length: 10 hrs and 43 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall19,127
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Performance16,996
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Story16,904
Now an HBO documentary series streaming on HBO Max. One of the Best Books of the Year Time * NPR * Washington Post * Bloomberg News * Chicago Tribune * Chicago Public Library * Fortune * Los Angeles Times * E! News * The Telegraph * Apple * Library Journal In this newly updated edition of the...
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Amazing
- By Lexi on 10-16-19
By: Ronan Farrow
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Operation Gladio
- The Unholy Alliance Between the Vatican, the CIA, and the Mafia
- By: Paul L. Williams
- Narrated by: Michael Prichard
- Length: 11 hrs and 57 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall449
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Performance390
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Story391
In this disturbing exposé, journalist Paul L. Williams describes a secret alliance forged at the close of World War II by the CIA, the Sicilian and US mafias, and the Vatican....
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A haunting, spellbinding tale.
- By Anthony on 12-07-15
By: Paul L. Williams
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Shadow Cell
- An Insider Account of America's New Spy War
- By: Andrew Bustamante, Jihi Bustamante
- Narrated by: Andrew Bustamante, Jihi Bustamante
- Length: 7 hrs and 15 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall471
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Performance449
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Story449
A thrilling firsthand account by husband-and-wife CIA operatives who, against all odds, triumphed in a deadly cat-and-mouse game against a mole within the agency—an unprecedented insider account of 21st-century spycraft in the tradition of Argo and Black Ops. Andrew and Jihi Bustamante were a...
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An interesting memoir
- By Dr. Darryl on 12-09-25
By: Andrew Bustamante, and others
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Rogue Heroes
- The History of the SAS, Britain's Secret Special Forces Unit That Sabotaged the Nazis and Changed the Nature of War
- By: Ben Macintyre
- Narrated by: Ben Macintyre
- Length: 13 hrs and 1 min
- Unabridged
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Overall2,679
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Performance2,333
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Story2,328
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER The incredible untold story of World War II’s greatest secret fighting force, as told by the modern master of wartime intrigue—now an original series on MGM+! “Reads like a mashup of The Dirty Dozen and The Great Escape, with a sprinkling of Ocean’s 11...
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Those Who Dared, Won!
- By Matthew on 10-07-16
By: Ben Macintyre
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Sandworm
- A New Era of Cyberwar and the Hunt for the Kremlin's Most Dangerous Hackers
- By: Andy Greenberg
- Narrated by: Mark Bramhall
- Length: 12 hrs and 2 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall2,260
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Performance1,877
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Story1,873
"With the nuance of a reporter and the pace of a thriller writer, Andy Greenberg gives us a glimpse of the cyberwars of the future while at the same time placing his story in the long arc of Russian and Ukrainian history." —Anne Applebaum, bestselling author of Twilight of Democracy The true...
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Thru the eyes of the Sandworm's hunters and prey
- By ndru1 on 11-12-19
By: Andy Greenberg
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The Illegals
- Russia's Most Audacious Spies and Their Century-Long Mission to Infiltrate the West
- By: Shaun Walker
- Narrated by: Paul Thornley
- Length: 14 hrs and 19 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall87
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Performance80
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Story80
ONE OF THE ECONOMIST'S BEST BOOKS OF 2025 The definitive history of Russia’s most secret spy program, from the earliest days of the Soviet Union to Putin’s invasion of Ukraine, and a revelatory examination of how that hidden history shaped both Russia and the West. More than a century...
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Russia is No One's Friend
- By LA Reader on 05-06-25
By: Shaun Walker
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Catch and Kill
- Lies, Spies, and a Conspiracy to Protect Predators
- By: Ronan Farrow
- Narrated by: Ronan Farrow
- Length: 10 hrs and 43 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall19,127
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Performance16,996
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Story16,904
Now an HBO documentary series streaming on HBO Max. One of the Best Books of the Year Time * NPR * Washington Post * Bloomberg News * Chicago Tribune * Chicago Public Library * Fortune * Los Angeles Times * E! News * The Telegraph * Apple * Library Journal In this newly updated edition of the...
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Amazing
- By Lexi on 10-16-19
By: Ronan Farrow
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Operation Gladio
- The Unholy Alliance Between the Vatican, the CIA, and the Mafia
- By: Paul L. Williams
- Narrated by: Michael Prichard
- Length: 11 hrs and 57 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall449
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Performance390
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Story391
In this disturbing exposé, journalist Paul L. Williams describes a secret alliance forged at the close of World War II by the CIA, the Sicilian and US mafias, and the Vatican....
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A haunting, spellbinding tale.
- By Anthony on 12-07-15
By: Paul L. Williams
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Shadow Cell
- An Insider Account of America's New Spy War
- By: Andrew Bustamante, Jihi Bustamante
- Narrated by: Andrew Bustamante, Jihi Bustamante
- Length: 7 hrs and 15 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall471
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Performance449
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Story449
A thrilling firsthand account by husband-and-wife CIA operatives who, against all odds, triumphed in a deadly cat-and-mouse game against a mole within the agency—an unprecedented insider account of 21st-century spycraft in the tradition of Argo and Black Ops. Andrew and Jihi Bustamante were a...
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An interesting memoir
- By Dr. Darryl on 12-09-25
By: Andrew Bustamante, and others
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Rogue Heroes
- The History of the SAS, Britain's Secret Special Forces Unit That Sabotaged the Nazis and Changed the Nature of War
- By: Ben Macintyre
- Narrated by: Ben Macintyre
- Length: 13 hrs and 1 min
- Unabridged
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Overall2,679
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Performance2,333
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Story2,328
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER The incredible untold story of World War II’s greatest secret fighting force, as told by the modern master of wartime intrigue—now an original series on MGM+! “Reads like a mashup of The Dirty Dozen and The Great Escape, with a sprinkling of Ocean’s 11...
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Those Who Dared, Won!
- By Matthew on 10-07-16
By: Ben Macintyre
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Sandworm
- A New Era of Cyberwar and the Hunt for the Kremlin's Most Dangerous Hackers
- By: Andy Greenberg
- Narrated by: Mark Bramhall
- Length: 12 hrs and 2 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall2,260
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Performance1,877
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Story1,873
"With the nuance of a reporter and the pace of a thriller writer, Andy Greenberg gives us a glimpse of the cyberwars of the future while at the same time placing his story in the long arc of Russian and Ukrainian history." —Anne Applebaum, bestselling author of Twilight of Democracy The true...
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Thru the eyes of the Sandworm's hunters and prey
- By ndru1 on 11-12-19
By: Andy Greenberg
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The Illegals
- Russia's Most Audacious Spies and Their Century-Long Mission to Infiltrate the West
- By: Shaun Walker
- Narrated by: Paul Thornley
- Length: 14 hrs and 19 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall87
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Performance80
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Story80
ONE OF THE ECONOMIST'S BEST BOOKS OF 2025 The definitive history of Russia’s most secret spy program, from the earliest days of the Soviet Union to Putin’s invasion of Ukraine, and a revelatory examination of how that hidden history shaped both Russia and the West. More than a century...
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Russia is No One's Friend
- By LA Reader on 05-06-25
By: Shaun Walker
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A Spy Among Friends
- Kim Philby and the Great Betrayal
- By: Ben Macintyre, John le Carré
- Narrated by: John Lee
- Length: 11 hrs
- Unabridged
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Overall2,751
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Performance2,429
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Story2,415
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER The epic true story of Kim Philby, the Cold War’s most infamous spy, from the “master storyteller” (San Francisco Chronicle) and author of Prisoners of the Castle. Now an MGM+ series starring Damian Lewis, Guy Pearce, and Anna Maxwell Martin “[A Spy Among...
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The narrator is incorrectly identified.
- By Greenlake DD on 07-30-14
By: Ben Macintyre, and others
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The Cuckoo's Egg
- Tracking a Spy Through the Maze of Computer Espionage
- By: Cliff Stoll
- Narrated by: Will Damron
- Length: 12 hrs and 46 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall1,867
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Performance1,553
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Story1,548
Before the internet became widely known as a global tool for terrorists, one perceptive US citizen recognized its ominous potential. Armed with clear evidence of computer espionage, he began a highly personal quest to expose a hidden network of spies that threatened national security....
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A story that stands the test of time
- By Todd on 08-11-20
By: Cliff Stoll
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Russians Among Us
- Sleeper Cells, Ghost Stories, and the Hunt for Putin’s Spies
- By: Gordon Corera
- Narrated by: Derek Perkins
- Length: 12 hrs and 48 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall895
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Performance779
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Story775
With intrigue that rivals the best le Carre novels, Russians Among Us tells the urgent story of Russia’s espionage efforts against the United States and the West from the end of the Cold War to the present Spies have long been a source of great fascination in the world of fiction, but...
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Should be required reading for every citizen
- By Amazon Customer on 02-27-20
By: Gordon Corera
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The Billion Dollar Spy
- A True Story of Cold War Espionage and Betrayal
- By: David E. Hoffman
- Narrated by: Dan Woren
- Length: 11 hrs and 54 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall3,835
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Performance3,402
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Story3,394
From the author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning history The Dead Hand comes the riveting story of a spy who cracked open the Soviet military research establishment and a penetrating portrait of the CIA’s Moscow station, an outpost of daring espionage in the last years of the Cold War ...
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Compelling as historical thriller, character study
- By Mr. Pointy on 08-25-15
By: David E. Hoffman
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Hunting the Jackal
- A Special Forces and CIA Soldier's Fifty Years on the Frontlines of the War Against Terrorism
- By: Billy Waugh, Tim Keown
- Narrated by: Joe Barrett
- Length: 8 hrs and 10 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall1,947
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Performance1,723
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Story1,713
For more than half a century, Special Forces and CIA legend Billy Waugh dedicated his life to tracking down and eliminating America's most virulent enemies....
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Hunting the Jackal - epic accounting of SOF/SOG and CIA IV
- By Eric on 01-08-18
By: Billy Waugh, and others
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Riding with Evil
- Taking Down the Notorious Pagan Motorcycle Gang
- By: Ken Croke, Dave Wedge
- Narrated by: Will Damron
- Length: 9 hrs and 42 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall1,017
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Performance916
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Story912
Sons of Anarchy meets The Departed in this fast-paced, high-wire act memoir from former ATF agent Ken Croke, the first federal agent in history to go undercover and successfully infiltrate the infamous—and infamously violent—Pagan Motorcycle Club, a white supremacist biker gang. Longtime ATF...
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Hooked from the First Line
- By J.A.Vess on 03-23-22
By: Ken Croke, and others
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Spycraft
- The Secret History of the CIA's Spytechs from Communism to Al-Qaeda
- By: Robert Wallace, Henry Robert Schelsinger
- Narrated by: David Drummond
- Length: 19 hrs and 50 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall1,084
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Performance685
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Story691
The former director of OTS gives listeners an unprecedented look at the devices and operations deemed "inappropriate for public disclosure" by the CIA just two years ago....
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Unique, informative history of the CIA
- By Richard on 07-29-08
By: Robert Wallace, and others
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Agent Sonya
- Moscow's Most Daring Wartime Spy
- By: Ben Macintyre
- Narrated by: Ben Macintyre
- Length: 14 hrs and 14 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall918
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Performance789
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Story787
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER The “master storyteller” (San Francisco Chronicle) behind the New York Times bestseller The Spy and the Traitor uncovers the true story behind one of the Cold War’s most intrepid spies. “[An] immensely exciting, fast-moving account.”—The Washington Post...
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Wanted to love it
- By Robert Bell on 09-30-20
By: Ben Macintyre
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The Triple Agent
- The al-Qaeda Mole who Infiltrated the CIA
- By: Joby Warrick
- Narrated by: Sunil Malhotra
- Length: 7 hrs and 7 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall886
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Performance746
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Story739
A stunning narrative account of the mysterious Jordanian who penetrated both the inner circle of al-Qaeda and the highest reaches of the CIA, with a devastating impact on the war on terror. In December 2009, a group of the CIA’s top terrorist hunters gathered at a secret base in Khost...
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Great modern history story
- By Melissa on 08-11-11
By: Joby Warrick
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Witness
- By: Whittaker Chambers
- Narrated by: John MacDonald
- Length: 30 hrs and 19 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall750
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Performance650
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Story651
First published in 1952, Witness came on the heals of America's trial of the century, in which Whittaker Chambers accused Alger Hiss of spying for the Soviet Union....
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Great history about Communism
- By Susan on 03-04-10
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Gideon's Spies
- The Secret History of the Mossad
- By: Gordon Thomas
- Narrated by: Theodore Bikel
- Length: 6 hrs and 2 mins
- Abridged
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Overall367
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Performance259
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Story260
In the secret world of spies and covert operations, no other intelligence service continues to be surrounded by myth and mystery as does the Mossad....
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Hatchet Job?
- By despinne on 07-02-03
By: Gordon Thomas
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The Sword and the Shield
- By: Christopher Andrew, Vasilli Mitrokhin
- Narrated by: Robert Whitfield
- Length: 31 hrs and 23 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall558
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Performance468
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Story465
This book reveals the most complete picture ever of the KGB and its operations in the United States and Europe. It is based on an extremely top secret archive which details the full extent of its worldwide network....
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Great book on the history of the KGB
- By Clydene on 05-28-12
By: Christopher Andrew, and others
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Mossad
- The Greatest Missions of the Israeli Secret Service
- By: Michael Bar-Zohar, Nissim Mishal
- Narrated by: Benjamin Isaac
- Length: 14 hrs and 34 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall1,329
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Performance1,159
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Story1,152
Authors MichaelBar-Zohar and Nissim Mishal take us behind the closed curtain with riveting, eye-opening, boots-on-the-ground accounts of the most dangerous, most crucial missions....
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maybe with a different reader.
- By Andrew on 04-30-16
By: Michael Bar-Zohar, and others
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Life Undercover
- Coming of Age in the CIA
- By: Amaryllis Fox
- Narrated by: Amaryllis Fox
- Length: 7 hrs and 10 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall1,792
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Performance1,579
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Story1,576
INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER “Fast and thrilling . . . Life Undercover reads as if a John le Carré character landed in Eat Pray Love." —The New York Times Amaryllis Fox's riveting memoir tells the story of her ten years in the most elite clandestine ops unit of the CIA, hunting the...
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Book of the year...
- By Mr Dangerous on 10-16-19
By: Amaryllis Fox
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Killing Pablo
- The Hunt for the World's Greatest Outlaw
- By: Mark Bowden
- Narrated by: Zac Aleman
- Length: 10 hrs
- Unabridged
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Overall13
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Performance12
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Story12
A Simon & Schuster audiobook. Simon & Schuster has a great book for every listener...
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The real Pablo Escobar
- By KAP on 08-14-25
By: Mark Bowden
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Prisoners of the Castle
- An Epic Story of Survival and Escape from Colditz, the Nazis' Fortress Prison
- By: Ben Macintyre
- Narrated by: Ben Macintyre
- Length: 13 hrs and 25 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall483
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Performance410
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Story411
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER The “entertaining [and] often-moving account” (The Wall Street Journal) of the remarkable POWs whose relentlessly creative attempts to escape a notorious Nazi prison embodied the spirit of resistance against fascism, from the author of The Spy and the Traitor...
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Another chapter of history brought to life by a master
- By Steve on 09-28-22
By: Ben Macintyre
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Code Name: Lise
- The True Story of the Woman Who Became WWII's Most Highly Decorated Spy
- By: Larry Loftis
- Narrated by: Kate Reading
- Length: 9 hrs and 59 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall1,581
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Performance1,416
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Story1,412
NATIONAL BESTSELLER Featured in The New York Times, The Atlantic, Time, New York Newsday, and on Today! “A nonfiction thriller.”—The Wall Street Journal From New York Times and international bestselling author of the “gripping” (Michael Connelly, #1 New York Times bestselling author)...
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SKIP THE PROLOGUE!
- By Erica J. Conway on 09-17-19
By: Larry Loftis
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The Venona Secrets
- Exposing Soviet Espionage and America's Traitors
- By: Herbert Romerstein, Eric Breindel
- Narrated by: Jim McCance
- Length: 16 hrs and 11 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall133
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Performance113
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Story115
The Venona Files are several intercepted communiques between the Soviet Union and American Communists following WWII....
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The Stalin Burreau in America
- By Doug on 07-09-13
By: Herbert Romerstein, and others
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The Main Enemy
- The Inside Story of the CIA's Final Showdown with the KGB
- By: Milton Bearden, James Risen
- Narrated by: Christopher Lane
- Length: 19 hrs and 48 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall863
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Performance772
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Story762
A landmark collaboration between a thirty-year veteran of the CIA and a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, The Main Enemy is the dramatic inside story of the CIA-KGB spy wars, told through the actions of the men who fought them....
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A masterpiece of espionage history
- By kucherv on 08-21-18
By: Milton Bearden, and others
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The Moscow Rules
- The Secret CIA Tactics That Helped America Win the Cold War
- By: Antonio Mendez, Jonna Mendez
- Narrated by: Wilson Bethel
- Length: 7 hrs and 2 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall1,724
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Performance1,493
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Story1,489
A “devilishly fun” (New York Times Book Review) account of a deadly serious business: the undercover spies and the tactics they developed to survive the Cold War in Moscow, from legendary former-CIA operatives. Antonio Mendez and his future wife Jonna were CIA operatives working to spy on...
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Interesting, clean, pro-CIA history
- By Alexander M Leasenby on 02-27-20
By: Antonio Mendez, and others
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American Kompromat
- How the KGB Cultivated Donald Trump, and Related Tales of Sex, Greed, Power, and Treachery
- By: Craig Unger
- Narrated by: Jason Culp
- Length: 12 hrs and 24 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall499
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Performance423
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Story421
**THE INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER** Kompromat n.—Russian for "compromising information" This is a story about the dirty secrets of the most powerful people in the world—including Donald Trump. It is based on exclusive interviews with dozens of high-level sources—intelligence officers...
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10 star book
- By Victoria Eriksson on 01-31-21
By: Craig Unger
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The Spy in Moscow Station
- A Counterspy's Hunt for a Deadly Cold War Threat
- By: Eric Haseltine
- Narrated by: Eric Haseltine
- Length: 8 hrs and 29 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall207
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Performance181
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Story181
This program is read by the author. The thrilling, true story of the race to find a leak in the United States Embassy in Moscow—before more American assets are rounded up and killed. Foreword by Gen. Michael V. Hayden (Retd.), Former Director of NSA & CIA. In the late 1970s, the National...
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Dull Dull Dull
- By DVN on 09-02-19
By: Eric Haseltine
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In True Face
- A Woman's Life in the CIA, Unmasked
- By: Jonna Mendez
- Narrated by: Barbara Benjamin-Creel
- Length: 8 hrs and 41 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall78
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Performance68
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Story68
The bestselling coauthor of The Moscow Rules and Argo tells her riveting, courageous story of being a female spy at the height of the Cold War Jonna Hiestand Mendez began her CIA career as a “contract wife” performing secretarial duties for the CIA as a convenience to her husband, a young...
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Breaking the Glass Ceiling in the CIA
- By Maggie May on 03-11-24
By: Jonna Mendez
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Spyfail
- Foreign Spies, Moles, Saboteurs, and the Collapse of America's Counterintelligence
- By: James Bamford
- Narrated by: David Colacci
- Length: 20 hrs and 41 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall79
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Performance68
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Story68
James Bamford, the bestselling author of The Puzzle Palace and Body of Secrets, unveils a hidden cabal of foreign powers that have spied against America to reveal the incredible spygames, secrets, and cyberweapons they’ve hatched, unlocked, and stolen--and how U.S. intelligence has utterly...
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As an undereducated layman, Bamford is excellent
- By ChuckBeatty on 03-11-23
By: James Bamford