German Intelligence

This is the riveting and extraordinary story of Kapitan Herbert Cleff, presented here for the first time by Brian Brinkworth. Cleff, an officer on the staff of General Wilhelm Ritter von Thoma, attached to the 21st Panzer division operating in the Western desert, was captured near El Dab'a in Libya on the sixth of November, 1942. He was interrogated both in the Western Desert and in the United Kingdom, following assessments that led his British captors to believe that he might prove useful to the Allied war effort. During this interrogation period, Cleff kept releasing tantalizing snippets.

"[Narrator Erin] Bennett’s reading is never overdone; her directness neither shies away from [author Christine] Kuehn’s unpleasant revelations nor sensationalizes them...her light expression lets the dramatic details speak for themselves." — Booklist "[Narrator Erin] Bennett's enunciation...

‘A superbly plotted historical drama… highly recommended!’ The Wishing Shelf One woman must sacrifice everything to uncover the truth in this enthralling historical novel, inspired by the true World War Two campaign Radio Aspidistra… England, 1942: Having fled Germany after her father...

‘The Silk Code had me absolutely hooked… A great storyline full of bravery, trust, love, survival, betrayal and determination.’ NetGalley reviewer, ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Based on the true story of ‘Englandspiel’, one woman must race against the clock to uncover a traitor, even if it means...

Now a major film starring Philip Seymour Hoffman, Rachel McAdams, Willem Dafoe, and Robin Wright. From John le Carré, this New York Times bestselling spy thriller is his “strongest, most powerful novel” (The New York Times Book Review). A half-starved young Russian man in a long black...

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 ...

In this historical fantasy, a new recruit to the most powerful supernatural intelligence agency on Earth is accused of going rogue—and must go on the run to clear her name.September, 1940. Three women of the Checquy, the secret organization tasked with protecting Britain from supernatural...

In a tale as twisted as any spy thriller, discover how three women delivered critical evidence of Axis war crimes to Allied forces during World War II: “Mazzeo is a fascinating storyteller” (New York Journal of Books). In 1944, news of secret diaries kept by Italy's Foreign Minister...

A year after Germany's defeat, Gregor Reinhardt has been hired back onto Berlin's civilian police force. The city is divided among the victorious allied powers, but tensions are growing, and the police are riven by internal rivalries as factions within it jockey for power and influence with Berlin's new masters. When a man is found slain in a broken-down tenement, Reinhardt embarks on a gruesome investigation.

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....

Why is “Made in Germany” no longer selling? German passenger-car exports have fallen 28 percent since 2016. In 2025, automotive exports to Germany’s largest foreign market crashed 17.8 percent. Its trade deficit with its biggest trading partner exploded to €89.3 billion. After two consecutive years of recession, Germany began consuming productive capital faster than it replaced it—for the first time since reunification. Europe’s industrial engine is slowing down. Why “Made in Germany” Is Not Selling Anymore reveals how a manufacturing superpower lost the decade that ...

A holiday on Rhodes ends with two men dead in a palace courtyard. Rex Dalton is not working. He is standing in a crowd of tourists with his wife, Catia, and Digger, his black Dutch Shepherd, when the dog goes still and stares at a man who is about to die. Ninety seconds later two men are down, an assassin is running, and Rex is running after her. She puts a bullet in her own head rather than be taken. That night three masked men shoot their way into the Daltons' hotel suite. By morning the CIA has what is left of a dead informant's story, and it is barely a story at all: somewhere behind a ...

A courier vanishes. A veteran spy waits. Someone is measuring every choice he makes. Vienna, 1955. East German intelligence officer Eberhard Teschner arrives at a midnight recovery point and finds signs only a professional would notice: an altered panel, an early tram, a signal retired years ago. The meeting has not merely failed. It has been staged. By dawn, Eberhard's fallback rooms have been touched and his private life drawn into the operation. Berlin issues a courteous recall through the mentor who shaped his career. A British officer offers rescue at the price of ownership. And ...

A captured German officer. A hidden signal network. A Jewish-American interrogator forced to choose between the truth that could save lives and the name that could explain his father’s death. Aachen, Germany, 1944. Sergeant Eli Brandt has returned to the city of his childhood in an American uniform, working intelligence interviews in the ruins of the Reich’s first fallen German city. Every prisoner brings another file, another alias, another carefully managed lie. Then Werner Dressler arrives. Dressler is a German signals officer with knowledge of relay points, transmission windows, and...

The CIA wants Sophie Decker dead. Agent Tom Finn is the bullet After a disastrous clash with Department 89, Washington decides Germany’s covert strike unit is too dangerous to exist. The order comes from the top: deploy a CIA black-ops kill team and erase Major Sophie Decker — along with every operative under her command. But Department 89 doesn’t play by international rules. Led by one of Europe’s most ruthless intelligence commanders, they strike from the shadows, dismantle enemies without mercy, and never back down from a war — especially not one on their doorstep. As CIA agent...

Mein Spy gives a firsthand documentation of German espionage and sabotage in the U.S. in the lead-ups to both World War I and World War II. These activities, some only plotted, some carried out, defeated their own purpose. Instead of keeping America from intervening on behalf of the Allies, German disinformation and sabotage inflamed an American public opinion that up to that point had mostly been neutral.

‘How did I not know anything about this?! A beautifully written book.’ – NetGalley Reviewer, ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ England: 1944 When psychologist Maddie Gresham is sent a mysterious message telling her to report to Trent Park mansion, she wonders how she will be helping the war effort from a...

Bestsellerautor Yuval Noah Harari erklärt, wie Informationsnetzwerke unsere Welt geschaffen haben und sie jetzt zu zerstören drohen. In den letzten 100.000 Jahren hat die Menschheit enorme Macht erlangt. Doch trotz all unserer Entdeckungen, Erfindungen und Eroberungen befinden wir uns heute in einer existenziellen Krise. Die Welt steht am Rande des ökologischen Zusammenbruchs. Zuhauf werden Falschinformationen verbreitet.

Hans Unterwald doesn’t pull triggers — he pulls strings When the Berlin Wall falls, one man sees opportunity in the wreckage. Ex–Luftwaffe pilot Hans Unterwald spent the Cold War uncovering traitors inside his own ranks — until the system paid him to keep quiet. Now he sells silence for a living. In the chaos of a reunited Germany, Unterwald becomes the Fixer: the man politicians call when scandals need to vanish and enemies need to disappear. But when he seizes a cache of stolen Stasi files, he discovers the deadliest currency in Europe isn’t money — it’s information. And ...

The late William Casey, former director of the CIA, here gives an autobiographical account of his World War II service with the OSS (Office of Strategic Services, which later evolved into the CIA) and the role such early intelligence organizations played in the defeat of Hitler.