Real Spies

ONE WOMAN. ONE MISSION. ONE DEADLY SECRET. The race is on! An unputdownable espionage thriller about NOOR INAYAT KHAN: an Indian princess turned Allied spy during WWII. A secret so deadly, no one is safe. PRINCESS OF SPIES will grip you to the very end. ★★★★★ ´If you loved The Nightingale or The Alice Network, you won’t put this down.´ ★★★★★ ´Over the course of these pages you will suffer, you will be shocked by the horror and anguish; but you will also discover an ode to the struggle against tyranny, to faith in something that lasts beyond death, and to love.´ —...

A fictionalised retelling of the Wirecard scandal, Marked To Fail fuses financial thriller with geopolitical espionage to expose the hidden machinery behind a billion-dollar lie. When a delivery boy is killed in New York, no one imagines the death will matter. But buried inside a routine police report is a detail that points to something far larger: a London fintech darling quietly routing millions of everyday payments through a shadow network tied to Iran’s missile program and Hezbollah.

Weird but True Stories from World War II: Bizarre but Real Tales from the World’s Strangest War dives deep into the hidden, surreal, and astonishing true events that unfolded between 1939 and 1945. From exploding rats and rubber tank armies to psychic infiltrators and bears enlisted in combat, this fascinating book uncovers the strangest corners of World War II history—stories so unbelievable they can only be true. Perfect for history buffs, trivia lovers, and curious readers, this compelling collection brings together ten incredible stories that reveal just how unpredictable and ...

James Bond has nothing on Dusko Popov. A double agent for the Abwehr, MI5 and MI6, and the FBI during World War II, Popov seduced numerous women, spoke five languages, and was a crack shot, all while maintaining his cover as a Yugoslavian diplomat....

She sent the people she loved into the war. Not all of them came back. London, England, 1942. Anna Adams is the cool, untouchable heart of SOE’s French Section. She chooses the women, trains them, and sends them behind enemy lines. No one at Baker Street headquarters knows the girl she was before: a Jewish refugee driven out of Germany in 1938, whose heart still belongs to the Polish pilot who saved her at the border. Pressed into an engagement with a man who would erase her past, Anna buries herself in her work. Then her agents begin to vanish, one by one. Among them are her closest ...

She carried diamonds across borders. One mistake, and she almost didn’t come home. Antwerp, Belgium, 1942. Lili Hamilton was never going to be a dutiful daughter. The heiress to a Kent coal mine walks out of her engagement, falls for a brilliant, dangerous communist, and sets out to become a war reporter. She is determined to be more than the daughter of Madeleine, the runaway countess who defied the Germans in In Picardy’s Fields. But the war she meant to write about pulls her straight in. In occupied Antwerp, a Jewish diamond family trusts her with everything the Nazis want from them:...

When Hezbollah abandoned smartphones in favor of “untraceable” pagers, its commanders believed they had finally escaped Israeli intelligence. They were wrong. From Ethan Harel comes a high-stakes espionage thriller inspired by one of the boldest intelligence operations of the century — a story so steeped in authentic tradecraft it reads less like fiction and more like the file that was never released. When a young Mossad officer, Yael, discovers a narrow and nearly impossible opportunity to turn thousands of enemy pagers into synchronized remote-triggered bombs, she is dismissed, ...

Torture. Cannibalism. Cruelty. Execution. History is filled with tales so grotesque and chilling they sound like fiction, but every one of them is disturbingly real. From ancient empires to medieval kingdoms and beyond, rulers and regimes devised punishments that turned human suffering into spectacle. Victims were roasted alive, devoured by vermin, blinded with burning irons, flayed, impaled, drowned, or crushed under beasts—all carried out not in secret, but as deliberate displays of power meant to terrify entire populations. This book uncovers the most shocking execution methods and ...

Follow-up to the New York Times bestseller Spy Secrets That Can Save Your Life--revealing high-stakes techniques and survival secrets from real intelligence officers in life-or-death situations around the world Everyone loves a good spy story, but most of the ones we hear are fictional. That's...

*Now an award-winning Apple TV+ series starring Gary Oldman, Kristin Scott Thomas and Jack Lowden* 'The finest British spy fiction of the past 20 years' Metro 'Masterful' Daily Mail 'A pulsating spy thriller' Daily Express **** Slough House is the Intelligence Service outpost for failed spies...

Tower of Secrets is a thriller, filled with spycraft and intelligence techniques never before revealed, a true story that is more spellbinding than any work of fiction could ever be. Head of security for cipher communications worldwide, Sheymov has rare knowledge of the entire system. Enter the riveting world of real intelligence where every life-or-death move on the chessboard affects the fate of nations. This is a tale more thrilling than fiction, told by a consummate master of the game.

Set in the aftermath of the “riveting…action-packed” (Joan Lunden, New York Times bestselling author) Oath of Honor and the discovery of a deadly global conspiracy, the president requests Logan West to form a covert task force with the mission to dismantle a nameless enemy in this “fast...

Conspiracies. Cannibalism. Torture. Human experimentation. These days, conspiracy theories run rampant. But what if some of these horrors turned out to be true? Many people are shocked to learn that history is filled with several confirmed, real-life horrors and dark conspiracies that seem too frightening to be real — everything from assassinations and grotesque human experimentation to bizarre plots, fake wars, and mass poisoning of entire populations. This book explores some of the most disturbing and incredible plots involving corporations, governments, scientists, and other trusted ...

Winner of the Association for Mormon Letters Biography Award A compelling true story of three LDS teens’ fight for freedom. “Rudi Wobbe: Charged with Preparation to High Treason and Aiding and Abetting the Enemy” Thus began the trial of Rudi Wobbe and two of his teenage friends as they stood before the justices of the dreaded Volksgerichtshof, the infamous supreme court of Nazi Germany. All the power and indignation of the Third Reich now focused on these three young LDS men who dared to distribute the truth about the war to their neighbors. If found guilty, they faced imprisonment—...

"In this oddly entertaining audiobook, narrator Pete Cross takes listeners through the many experiments and devices created by the R&D branch of the Office of Strategic Services (OSS) during WWII... Listeners will be both transfixed and horrified by the decisions weighed, and taken." - AudioFile...

The official record was never the truth. From the award-winning author of the Code Name series comes CODE NAME: BERLIN Where Spies Go to Die, A Cold War Thriller Inspired by Real-World Events. Berlin, 1955. CIA informants are being erased across the city, MI6 has been compromised and the KGB is losing control of its own apparatus. And now, NATO has formed, and the Soviets have answered with the Warsaw Pact. It should be balanced, but it isn't. Someone is preparing to break it apart. No pattern. No warning. No survivors. The war may be over, but the men and women who fought it are still in ...

It's 1946, and Jamie McCoy has just returned to Boston from combat in the Pacific to learn that his mother has died while he was overseas; his father, a World War I hero and world-renowned aviator, had vanished while attempting a solo flight over the Atlantic many years before. While settling his parents' estate, Jamie is told about some mysterious events leading to his father's flight that convince him to visit the rural Connecticut town where he grew up. There, in the idyllic all-American community of Granbury, he finds that his father's memory is idolized, but that of his mother is ...

They thought they had 22 spies inside Britain. They had zero. In 1944, Hitler kept 150,000 troops waiting at the wrong beach while Allied forces stormed Normandy. The reason? A failed Spanish chicken farmer convinced the Third Reich he was running 27 agents across England. Every single one was fictional. Juan Pujol García had failed at everything. Failed chicken farmer. Failed cinema manager. What he had was imagination—and a burning hatred of fascism. When British intelligence rejected him, he recruited himself to the Germans, invented an entire spy network from a Lisbon apartment using...

They had names, families and carefully constructed lives. But some of those names belonged to somebody else. The Dead Man Had Another Name explores 30 extraordinary true stories of fugitives, spies, impostors and ordinary people who abandoned, borrowed or invented identities—and the remarkable investigations that eventually revealed who they really were. Discover the escaped killer who lived for decades under another name, the mysterious woman identified years after her death through genetic genealogy, the Soviet spies who built convincing Western lives, and the impostors who persuaded ...

Louis is a gripping story of the life of a professional wartime spy. From his boyhood education in Egypt in the early 1900s, he was being prepared to serve in the newly formed British Secret Service Bureau on the orders of Abbas II Hilmi, the Khedive of Egypt and Sudan, as part of a secret arrangement with the British government to supply young operatives for the newly formed bureau.