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...

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.

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...

From New York Times bestselling author Tess Gerritsen comes a chilling follow-up to The Spy Coast, plunging the Martini Club into the search for a missing teen—with a startling connection to their own pasts. When former spy Maggie Bird retired to the seaside hamlet of Purity, Maine, she...

From a former spy comes an electrifying novel about the mystery, paranoia and ruthlessness of the secretive world of British espionage 'Spies and Other Gods places him in the top tier of today's spy writers' The Spectator 'Wonderfully entertaining' John Banville, author of Booker Prize-winning...

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 ...

DEAD MEN DON'T RUN PRIVATE ARMIES IN THE GULF OF GUINEA. The last confirmed sighting of Colonel Tobias Caine was a body double burned to ash in a Sahel depot. Case closed. Killed in action. Six months later, former Delta Force operative Idris Okonkwo takes a routine security contract on an offshore oil rig in Block Fourteen, specifically to disappear. He wasn't supposed to ask questions about the dark vessels slipping past the platform at night. But when a quiet port rumor places his ruthlessly methodical former mentor alive and commanding an unregistered paramilitary fleet, Idris can't ...

“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 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...

Bloomsbury presents The Devil's Bargain by Stella Rimington, read by Penelope Rawlins. I wanted more' DAVID GILMAN One lie put the nation at risk. Another might save it. Harry Bristow: policeman, father, chauffeur, fraud. In 1988 Harry made one mistake: he took a bribe, letting a man he knew as...

A thief, a hero, and a spy in one boxed set collection. The first three Christian romantic suspense stories in Protector Sweethearts invite us into the world of adventure seekers as they hunt for lost treasures. Book 1: Once a Thief (Stolen World War II Artifacts) A private investigator looking for her missing mother. A reformed art thief getting a new lease on life. Twelve bejeweled eggs with secrets of their own. She sets a thief to catch a thief. Will he also steal her heart? Private investigator Helen Hu must team up with art thief Reuben Costa to rescue her mother, who has vanished ...

History never dies. It merely waits For forty years, Max Keller has been remembered as one of Germany’s most notorious Cold War defectors. Now, terminally ill and carrying evidence powerful men thought was buried forever, he returns from exile with one final mission: expose the truth about why he betrayed his country. As the German intelligence unit Edelweiss closes in, Keller’s return reopens a conspiracy stretching from the darkest days of the Cold War to the highest levels of power. Edelweiss chief Katherina Voss and her team soon discover that Keller was never the whole story — ...

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 ...

Жизнь секретного агента в кино—это шикарные автомобили, смокинги и блестящие остроты, которые он отпускает, расправляясь с очередным врагом при помощи крутых наручных часов. Забудьте обо всем, что видели на экране! Рэд Райли, бывший сотрудник британской секретной службы МИ-6, расскажет как это на самом деле. Приведенные методы проверены на практике, а все жизненно важные шпионские приемы испытаны в полевых условиях.

'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 ...

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 ...

Can You Instagram a Nuclear Explosion? This kid's about to find out. There’s no such thing as a good choice. And the bad ones keep getting worse. Former marine turned journalist, Ray Hammer, should never have said yes. Yet here he is on the Island Territory of Guam doing the bidding of a man who once tried to kill him, Deputy Marshall Frank Whittcombe. And now the world is on a precipice, Hammer must pull the trigger or send humanity into World War 3. He has two options… Kill a teenager or let the world burn. Can Hammer pull the trigger? Or will the Anderson Airforce Base fire the first...