Russian Intelligence

Since its founding in 1995, the FSB, Russia's Federal Security Service, has regained the majority of the domestic security functions of the Soviet-era KGB. Under Vladimir Putin, who served as FSB director just before becoming president, the agency has grown to be one of the most powerful and favored organizations in Russia. The FSB not only conducts internal security but also has primacy in intelligence operations in former Soviet states.

When the Detroit Red Wings were rebooting their franchise after more than two decades of relative futility, they knew the best place to find world-class players who could turn things around more quickly were conscripted servants behind the Iron Curtain. All they had to do to get them was make history by drafting them and then figure out how to get them out of the Soviet Union.

Seven Million Dollar Spy reveals, for the first time, the inside story of the dramatic US counterintelligence operation that resulted in the capture of the most dangerous mole working for Russia inside US intelligence. Now, the former senior KGB spy, to whom the US paid seven million dollars for Moscow's file on the mole, is identified by both his real and code names.

Listening stations camouflaged as boatsheds in secluded coastline locations, spying missions probing far into Russian territory, strictly guarded radar installations, aircraft and seagoing vessels that collect information covertly. All of this has been part of a secret intelligence collaboration between the USA and Norway that also includes wiretapping on the Russian border and the covert tapping of civilian satellites. Espionage has ensnared individuals in a high stakes game being played out between the great powers, which both during and after the Cold War has turned secluded villages and...

An incredible true tale of espionage and engineering set at the height of the Cold War—a mix between The Hunt for Red October and Argo—about how the CIA, the U.S. Navy, and America’s most eccentric mogul spent six years and nearly a billion dollars to steal the nuclear-armed Soviet...

Three gripping thrillers. One relentless investigation. A conspiracy that refuses to stay buried. From international bestselling author Tim Heath comes the next explosive installment in The Hunt Series. This action-packed box set includes three standalone thrillers that pull readers deep into a world of espionage, political corruption, and global power struggles. Across these stories, investigators uncover secrets powerful forces will do anything to protect. As hidden networks begin to unravel, every discovery raises the stakes and every decision could prove fatal. Inside this box set: The ...

A riveting true-life thriller and revealing memoir from the daughter of an American intelligence officer the astonishing true story of two spies and their families on opposite sides of the Cold War. In the summer of 1975, seventeen-year-old Eva Dillon's family was living in New Delhi when her...

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...

In a world of renewed great power competition, the challenges facing the United States in managing its relations with China and Russia are daunting. But with "A New Cold War Global Strategy," you can get ahead of the curve in understanding this complex conflict. This comprehensive analysis of the relationships among these three global powers draws on insights from history, economics, law, and philosophy to provide a strategic roadmap for the United States. From the resource dependence and demographic constraints of dictatorship to the isolationism and withdrawal of democracy, the book ...

All chess games end in a murder... It's 1920, the murders of a trade unionist, a knight and a bishop shock Britain. The finger of blame seems to point to Russia. As the body count rises, Kit Aston plays a deadly game of chess with a Russian grandmaster where checkmate is a matter of life or death. The latest Kit Aston whodunnit is a gripping historical crime thriller, full of twists and hilarious one liners which fuses classic murder mystery with a spy novel. The Kit Aston mysteries mix real life historical characters and events with crime thrillers full of red herrings. No books are the ...

A thrilling book that 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 failed to stop them. From the bestselling author of The...

Garry Kasparov gives his account of his landmark 1997 chess match with the IBM supercomputer Deep Blue, and explains why, twenty years later, he's become convinced that artificial intelligence is good for humans. "This important and optimistic book explains what we as humans are uniquely...

When Captain Maksim “Kuz” Kuznetsov swings his Mi-8 helicopter off a routine flight path and lands in enemy territory, the world calls it a defection. Moscow calls it contagion. Within hours, Kuz is buried inside a Western protection pipeline built on paperwork, door codes, and the quiet lies that keep people alive. A new name. A new city. A new set of rules: don’t be seen, don’t make patterns, don’t trust anyone who sounds calm. But Lieutenant Colonel Malyshev doesn’t hunt with guns first. He hunts with systems—maintenance crews, access logs, stairwells, garages, “service ...

The Russians were playing Donald Trump and his allies long before the 2016 election - and continue to do so to this day. That much, and more, is made clear in this masterfully narrated audiobook.

In 1917, a band of communist revolutionaries stormed the Winter Palace of Tsar Nicholas II - a dramatic and explosive act marking that Vladimir Lenin’s communist revolution was now underway. But Lenin would not be satisfied with overthrowing the Tsar. His goal was a global revolt that would topple all Western capitalist regimes - starting with the British Empire. Russian Roulette tells the spectacular and harrowing story of the British spies in revolutionary Russia and their mission to stop Lenin’s red tide from washing across the free world.

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...

Boris Morros was a major figure in the 1930s and 1940s. The head of music at Paramount, nominated for Academy Awards, he then went on to produce his own films with Laurel and Hardy, Fred Astaire, Henry Fonda, and others. But as J. Edgar Hoover would discover, these successes were a cover for one of the most incredible espionage tales in the history of the Cold War-Boris Morros also worked for Russian intelligence. Morros's assignments took him to the White House, the Vatican, and deep behind the Iron Curtain.

Paul, an eighteen-year-old high school senior, is devasted by the sudden loss of his parents in a car accident. Bereaved and left penniless, he takes over his father's business where he stumbles on evidence of that his parents weren’t exactly what they appeared to be. When he asks his friend Simon, a brilliant data scientist and FBI agent, to help him with an encrypted file on his father's computer, Simon starts to wonder about the nature of the parents' business. He is certain that the key to their secrets lies in the encrypted file. Meanwhile at the Russian Embassy in Washington DC, an ...

Learn or Die . . . A 10,000 word short featuring Kuba - the AI from The Rogue Hackers Series. As the story begins, we're plunged into the murky Moscow underworld as the Soviet State Collapses, and a brilliant mathematician rewrites the rules of what is possible for artificial intelligence. But as the stunning machine develops ever more incredible capabilities, it reaches the attention of the Russian mob and sparks a gang war between rival factions; even as the KGB hovers in the background ready to seize this synthetic miracle and make it a soldier of the state.

The explosive, never-before-told story of the thrilling hunt for a KGB spy in the top ranks of the CIA, revealing how spies blinded the US to the rise of Putin and Russia’s dangerous future, from New York Times bestselling author and former CIA officer Robert Baer. We think we know all the...