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.

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 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 ...

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.

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.

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...

Unmask the shadowy world of Russian espionage with this riveting exploration of the Russian Intelligence Services (RIS) and their global clandestine operations. With decades of experience as a CIA operations officer, author Sean M. Wiswesser takes listeners deep into the heart of...

“The Moscow Circuit succeeds at crafting an international thriller filled with suspense and all the tenets of a solid spy story.” —Robert Cain, Reedsy Discovery “Fascinating read… highly recommend.” ★★★★★ (Verified Purchase) The attack wasn’t random. It was part of something larger—a program never meant to be discovered. And they didn’t expect her to figure it out. When violence shatters Raya’s life, she learns it was not an isolated act—it was the consequence of an intelligence operation launched decades earlier and buried with ruthless precision. Designed ...

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...

RUSSIA’S MOST DANGEROUS SOLDIERS WERE NEVER MEANT TO BE SEEN. They strike behind enemy lines. They gather intelligence, sabotage critical targets, hunt high-value enemies, guide attacks, and operate where Moscow wants power without responsibility. They are Spetsnaz, military intelligence operatives, special operations forces, mercenaries, proxies, and specialists whose missions exist in the dangerous space between espionage and open war. This is the hidden world of Russia’s shadow army. FROM THE SOVIET UNION TO PUTIN’S WARS The Shadow Army takes readers inside the secretive military ...

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...

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...

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...

Bloomsbury presents Putin's Wars by Mark Galeotti, read by David Sibley. THE FINANICAL TIMES – BEST BOOKS OF 2022 'The prolific military chronicler and analyst Mark Galeotti has produced exactly the right book at the right time.' – The Times A history of how Putin and his conflicts have...

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 ...

This revelatory and dramatic history of disinformation traces the rise of secret organized deception operations from the interwar period to contemporary internet troll farms We live in the age of disinformation—of organized deception. Spy agencies pour vast resources into hacking, leaking, and...

Named a Best Book of the Year by Vogue Slow Horses meets Red Sparrow in this “sharp, freshly conceived, [and] thoroughly entertaining” (Kirkus Reviews, starred review) globetrotting spy thriller featuring a brilliant young intelligence officer and a troubled heiress who stumble into a...

In Russia, death is rarely just death when it happens near power. From Soviet-era assassinations to modern poisonings, prison deaths, suspicious falls, plane crashes, and wartime car bombings, Deep State Russia follows a dark trail of bodies connected to the Russian state, its enemies, its defectors, its critics, and its own insiders. This book examines some of the most chilling deaths tied to Russia’s political world: Leon Trotsky, Georgi Markov, Alexander Litvinenko, Anna Politkovskaya, Sergei Magnitsky, Boris Nemtsov, Alexei Navalny, Yevgeny Prigozhin, and many others. Some cases were ...

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...

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...