European Intelligence

The mind-blowing story of how information networks – from the stone age to AI - have shaped our world from the #1 Sunday Times bestselling author of Sapiens Stories brought us together. Books spread our ideas – and our mythologies. The internet promised infinite knowledge. The algorithm...

A history of the elaborate and brilliantly sustained World War II intelligence operation by which Hitler's generals were tricked into giving away vital Nazi secrets At the outbreak of World War II, MI6 spymaster Thomas Kendrick arrived at the Tower of London to set up a top secret operation...

The untold story of the academics who became OSS spies, invented modern spycraft, and helped turn the tide of the war At the start of WWII, the U.S. found itself in desperate need of an intelligence agency. The Office of Strategic Services (OSS), a precursor to today’s CIA, was quickly...

A renegade CIA officer must infiltrate an extremist group in the heart of Europe in a high-stakes political thriller offering “spy fiction at its headiest and most addictive” (Kirkus Reviews). “Left me breathless with its nimble plot work and sheer storytelling audacity.” —The New York...

“A story as fascinating as it is undersung . . . a riveting account” (The New York Times Book Review, Best Books of 2025 So Far) of the CIA’s secret program to smuggle millions of books through the Iron Curtain during the Cold War “Brimming with poetic detail, spring-loaded with...

Brought to you by Penguin. A prescient, thoughtful and chilling examination of the current state of the world If there are lessons from history, now is the time when we need to heed them, so that we do not end up in another Great Power war because of the fatal combinations of jingoism, fear...

2007 Audie Award Finalist for...

One of AudioFile’s Best Audiobooks of 2019! Named “The Book of the Year” by Lee Child in The Guardian From “master of the genre” (The Washington Post) and author of Leaving Berlin, a heart-pounding and intelligent espionage novel about a Nazi war criminal who was supposed to be dead...

From the New York Times bestselling author of The Orphan's Tale, a breathtaking and thrilling follow-up to Almost Home—ten years after the tragedy that forever changed her life, Jordan Weiss uncovers a betrayal that leaves her reeling and sets her off on a journey searching for answers. Ten...

They can destroy anyone with a secret. Now they’ve chosen the wrong man Germany’s most powerful people are suddenly resigning, confessing their darkest secrets, and killing themselves in horrifying public suicides. When Department 89 discovers that the deaths are connected, Decker and her team uncover signs of a sophisticated blackmail operation targeting the country’s political and corporate elite. Then Hans Unterwald, Chief of Staff to the German Chancellor, receives his own ultimatum. The people behind the deaths know secrets from his past that could destroy careers, trigger ...

This program is read by the author. The explosive story of the poisoning of the former Russian spy Sergei Skripal and what it reveals about the growing clandestine conflict between the West and Russia. Salisbury, England: March 4, 2018. Slumped on a bench, paralyzed and barely able to breathe...

Before the legend of Department 89, there were the people who built it in blood Long before Germany’s most secret intelligence unit existed, four future agents lived through the chaos of the Cold War, betrayal, and political conspiracy — experiences that would forge them into the ruthless operatives of this explosive German espionage thriller series. Sophie Decker. A homeless survivor of abuse and the brutal DDR streets. She joins the army, becoming a fearless female assassin in the making — a soldier who fights her own private wars long before joining Department 89. Wolfgang Schmitz....

History never dies. It merely waits For forty years, Max Keller has been remembered as one of Germany’s most notorious Cold War defectors. Now, terminally ill and carrying evidence powerful men thought was buried forever, he returns from exile with one final mission: expose the truth about why he betrayed his country. As the German intelligence unit Edelweiss closes in, Keller’s return reopens a conspiracy stretching from the darkest days of the Cold War to the highest levels of power. Edelweiss chief Katherina Voss and her team soon discover that Keller was never the whole story — ...

In the contemporary world of intelligence, wars are no longer declared. They seep quietly into everyday life, into bank accounts, relationships, borders, and bodies. KIRU – Love and Death in Bratislava is a literary espionage novel set deep inside that gray terrain, where loyalty is conditional, love is dangerous, and obedience often replaces choice. Tomás Mancini—known operationally as Kiru—is an Argentine intelligence operative shaped by discipline, silence, and the long shadows of institutional violence. Raised within the rigid structures of a military boarding school and later ...

The International Spy Museum's Historian takes us on a wild tour of missions and schemes that almost happened, but were ultimately deemed too dangerous, expensive, ahead of their time, or even certifiably insane. "Compulsively readable laugh out loud history." —Mary Roach, New York Times...

On Amsterdam’s Herengracht, a young Ghanaian woman is found dead—positioned with the same chilling precision Thomas Walker has seen before, while Dutch police prepare to dismiss her death as suicide. Suspended from the Metropolitan Police and operating without authority, Walker teams up with Detective Pieter van der Meer, a Dutch investigator with his own reasons for refusing to look away. Their investigation exposes a recruitment pipeline hidden inside Amsterdam’s fashion industry and leads them toward a darker truth: Operation Black Rose was not merely operating here—it may have ...

Criminals use guns, money, and intimidation. Jillian Banks uses an itemized receipt. At forty-eight, international estate coordinator Jillian Banks doesn't do espionage. She does appraisals, provenance, and pristine paperwork. Armed with a portable French press and a stainless-steel Parker Jotter, Jillian travels the globe bringing order to the chaotic aftermath of other people's lives. But her newest client in Lisbon has left behind a catastrophic liability. The deceased travel writer was actually an operative mapping a massive human trafficking pipeline across the Mediterranean. Now, a ...

The Lazarus DoctrineA Short Story in the Balkans By Daniel Parton A buried doctrine. A forgotten war. And a truth too dangerous to stay hidden. When Serbian historian Mila Petrović is summoned to inspect a Cold War bunker unearthed on the outskirts of Pristina, she uncovers more than relics — she stumbles upon a long-dormant operation codenamed Lazarus. Designed to resurrect nationalism through myth, martyrdom, and manufactured memory, the doctrine was never meant to see daylight. Until now. As violence brews across ethnic lines, Mila teams up with Erion Kodra, an Albanian cryptographer ...

2007 Audie Award Finalist for...

International bestselling author Mandy Robotham returns with a brand new tale set in 1950s London. ‘A gripping story of revenge, guilt and redemption, sweetened by love.’ Daisy Wood, author of The Forgotten Bookshop in Paris ‘A truly brilliant read—I couldn’t put it down!’ Suzanne...