Former Spy

Three former CIA officers—among the world's foremost authorities on recognizing deceptive behavior—share their proven techniques for uncovering a lie Imagine how different your life would be if you could tell whether someone was lying or telling you the truth. Be it hiring a new employee...

In a world that never stops shouting, do you find it impossible to stop and breathe? You’ve tried to quiet the noise, but the chaos of modern life—the endless to-do lists, the demanding job, the constant pressure—follows you everywhere. The truth is, stress isn’t the enemy. The enemy is a mind at war with itself. What if you could build a shelter of calm inside that no storm could shake? In The Unshakable Calm, former intelligence operative Elias Thorne reveals the powerful mindfulness techniques that kept him focused and alive in high-stakes situations. This is not theory. This is ...

The New York Times bestseller that reveals the safety, security, and survival techniques that 99% of Americans don’t know—but should When Jason Hanson joined the CIA in 2003, he never imagined that the same tactics he used as a CIA officer for counter intelligence, surveillance, and...

The highest-ranking Soviet bloc intelligence official ever to defect to the West, Lt. Gen. Ion Mihai Pacepa is at it again. A quarter century ago, in his international bestseller Red Horizons, Pacepa exposed the massive crimes and corruption of his former boss, Romanian President Nicolae Ceausescu, giving the dictator a nervous breakdown and inspiring him to send assassination squads to the U.S. to find his former spy chief and kill him. They failed.

When former spy Maggie Bird retired to the seaside hamlet of Purity, Maine, she settled in for a quiet life with breathtaking views. But enemies from her past soon threatened to destroy everything. Maggie survived, thanks to her wits and the collective intelligence of the Martini Club, the circle of ex-CIA friends in her cocktail-sipping book club. Their handiwork, however, caught the attention of young police chief Jo Thibodeau. Now Jo and her neighborhood ex-spies have an uneasy alliance.

A former CIA officer and curator of the CIA Museum unveils the shocking, untold story of Nobel Prize-winning author Ernest Hemingway’s secret life as a spy for both the Americans and the Soviets before and during World War II. While he was the curator of the CIA Museum, Nicholas Reynolds, a...

He left the game. The game never left him. Former CIA case officer Gavin Reed once operated in the world’s most sensitive shadows—deep cover, off-book, off-grid. Now he’s... whatever this is. A polite civilian. A cautious consultant. A man who can't stop surveilling strangers, deploying evasive maneuvers in shopping malls, or building shell companies just to feel engaged. He tells himself he’s out of the game. The game isn’t so sure. When strange letters arrive and old contacts reappear, Gavin begins to suspect the paper trail of his fake life is unraveling. Not the forged ...

Former CIA officer James ‘Wes’ Wesley paid the ultimate price for his patriotism when he was locked up in a French jail for an anti-terror operation gone wrong--abandoned by the Agency he served, shunned by his colleagues and friends, cut off from his family. Now he is shattered by the news that his ex-wife, Rachel, a State Department analyst, has been killed in a terrorist attack in Spain. He also discovers that his young son, Ethan, is missing. But Wes didn’t know he had a son--until now. Why was Rachel in Spain? And why did she keep his son secret from him?

“A high-energy tale that unfolds at a machine-gun pace…Betley has become essential reading.” —Booklist A global conspiracy threatens America’s position in the current balance of power in this “story of action, history, and secrets that is as imaginative as it is compelling” (Steve...

'A Former Person' is the first in a series of man-on-the-run thrillers set in the 1930s inter-war period. Prince Dmitri Romanov is a member of the former Russian imperial family. He is a playboy and occasional thief of the Romanov jewels being sold on the open market by the Soviet government. Dmitri is asked by the leader of a Chinese Triad organised crime gang to repay a favour and return to Russia to rescue a White Army general who’s needed to lead an army gathering in Manchuria. Dmitri agrees, but is pursued across Europe by Bolshevik spies. Once in Russia, he discovers there is much ...

Formerly Published as The Code of SIlence Trillogy by Morgan G. Blake. The Code of Silence Trilogy (The Dominick Kaine Univeress Book 2) Their passion defies protocol. Their secrets could get them killed. From acclaimed espionage thriller author Morgan G. Blake comes the heart-stopping second installment in the Dominick Kaine series - a complete trilogy in one explosive volume. In the shadow-filled world of international espionage, former operative Eva Carson thought she'd found sanctuary in the quiet mountain town of Cedar Ridge. Creating a new identity as a reclusive artist, she's ...

“A crucial study in the political manipulation of intelligence, understanding how Curveball got us into Iraq will arm us for the next round of lies coming out of Washington.”—Robert Baer, author of See No Evil: The True Story of a Ground Soldier in the CIA's War on Terrorism...

Dominic Kaine: Trigger Country In the shadows of Montana's rugged wilderness, danger and desire collide... Former special forces operative Dominic Kaine thought he'd found peace as the sheriff of Cedar Ridge, a quiet Montana town nestled against the mountains. But when mysterious artist Eva Carson arrives, his carefully constructed world begins to unravel. Eva has her own secrets—a past filled with covert operations and narrow escapes. She came to Cedar Ridge seeking anonymity, a place to disappear from the shadowy organization hunting her. What she didn't expect was Dominic Kaine, a man ...

They thought he was dead. He preferred it that way. Until the algorithm started killing. Gid Kane walked away from the shadows years ago: burned, buried, and officially deceased. When a tech CEO turns up murdered in his penthouse and the scene mirrors a classified kill pattern, he knows one thing: his long-dead algorithm is active again… and someone’s using it to kill. Teaming up with an analyst hacker and a brilliant, no-nonsense ethics professor, he is pulled into a deadly conspiracy that reaches deep into government black sites and private tech empires. Every clue points to a new ...