Nuclear Spies

Why did the US intelligence services fail so spectacularly to know about the Soviet Union's nuclear capabilities following World War II? As Vince Houghton, historian and curator of the International Spy Museum in Washington, DC, shows us, that disastrous failure came just a few years after the Manhattan Project's intelligence team had penetrated the Third Reich and knew every detail of the Nazi's plan for an atomic bomb. What changed and what went wrong?

First Prize Winner in Published NonFiction, WriterCon 2025. Finalist, 2025 Self-Publishing Review Book Awards The author graduates from an elite university and enters the submarine service in the mid-1980s when rhetoric between the US and USSR threatens to turn the Cold War hot. He encounters an unforgiving world where submarines hunt each other unseen and unheralded in the ocean depths and in which minor mistakes can result in catastrophe. On four classified missions to the Mediterranean Sea, the North Atlantic, the Barents Sea, and the North Pole, he gradually and painfully learns the ...

This isn’t a story about the future. It’s a story about now. About a world where everyone knows disaster is coming—yet no one speaks. Where generals run “just in case” scenarios, knowing that the case is already on its way. Where nuclear war is no longer taboo. It’s a plan. Nuclear War is a global political thriller that begins with one strike—and ends the way the world might.

The INSTANT New York Times bestseller Instant Los Angeles Times bestseller Finalist, Dayton Literary Peace Prize One of NPR's Books We Love One of Newsweek Staffers' Favorite Books of the Year Shortlisted for the Baillie Gifford Prize “In Nuclear War: A Scenario, Annie Jacobsen gives us a...

A Russian nuclear warhead is missing. The trail leads to the remote Moroccan desert, where a sale has already been arranged. British MI6 and the American CIA both want to stop it — and both want the weapon for themselves. Independently, each agency plants an undercover agent inside a running tour that will be circling the area of interest. Richard Block and Amy Marlow discover each other on the ground, and find themselves at once collaborators and rivals in the hunt for the warhead. Global Runners Travel is their cover. As sixty athletes move through Marrakech, massive palmeries, ancient ...

This is more than the story of nuclear conflict. It’s about the devastating effects wrought by nuclear winter. Our possible future is seen through the eyes of the Albright family. Hank Albright, a widower and proprietor of the Driftwood Key Inn, is the epitome of the laid-back islander inhabiting the Keys. His brother, Mike, is a homicide detective for the Monroe County Sheriff’s department. Along with his wife, Jessica, a paramedic and member of the sheriff’s department's water emergency team, they become involved in the investigation of a sadistic serial killer.

March, 2015. Whisked off in the middle of the night by a chopper taking him to a secure underground command center in Tel Aviv, Israeli Prime Minister Dov Dvir is brought up to speed on the greatest crisis ever faced by Israel. An email message sent by a Mossad agent, who has access to the highest echelons of the Iranian regime, warns that an Iranian nuclear strike against Israel will take place within forty eight hours, as a direct result of a coup by elite Iranian military units. When the Ayatollahs –fortified in a bunker in the holy city of Qom – realize that all is lost, they will ...

When a defector reveals that the entire Soviet nuclear arsenal is broken, a Houston police officer becomes the only person who can extract her and change the course of the Cold War. Phil Swain is a SWAT sergeant haunted by a shooting that killed an officer under his command. When a CIA recruiter offers him a way out training as an Army linguist for a weapons verification operation, Phil accepts, not knowing it will pull him into something far larger than his past trauma. In East Germany, posing as a translator, Phil discovers a KGB major willing to defect with classified evidence: the ...

Terrorists obtain a nuclear bomb ...and it’s heading for America. Green Beret operative George Ferrar faces his nemesis in a dark cave in Afghanistan…then learns that a loose nuke is heading to America's heartland. But who will believe him? Everybody from the CIA to the FBI to Congress thinks he has turned against America. Ferrar is resourceful, knowledgeable, and deadly, but must take his game to a whole new level to stay alive, track down the bomb, and save the nation. He races against time as the bomb slips through the hands of numerous countries, from Pakistan to Bahrain to Canada ...

From New York Times bestselling author Sam Kean comes the gripping, untold story of a renegade group of scientists and spies determined to keep Adolf Hitler from obtaining the ultimate prize: a nuclear bomb. Scientists have always kept secrets. But rarely have the secrets been as vital as they...

NUCLEAR WAR: THE WAR FOR ORBIT is a standalone story from the world of DAY ZERO. You can listen to it on its own, without needing to know the previous books. The world after nuclear war is trying to return to order. Governments talk about law again. Cities are being rebuilt. People learn to live with the memory of catastrophe and plans for the future. In Moscow, Sergey Lavrov, president of New Russia, is preparing to announce the first election results since the war. For his supporters, it is meant to prove the country is leaving survival mode behind.

The world ended in less than an hour. When escalating tensions between the world’s superpowers erupt into global nuclear war, millions die in the opening strikes. Cities vanish beneath firestorms, governments collapse, and civilisation is reduced to ash. Caught in Britain when the bombs fall, brothers Alex and Jason Carhill are thrown into a nightmare of radioactive fallout, freezing darkness and desperate survivors fighting to stay alive. As society unravels around them, Alex must battle not only starvation, disease and violent scavengers, but the terrifying psychological toll of a world...

What if someone could beat a powerful sitting president? And would we actually want them in power? The Games are over. What replaces them is older, quieter and considerably worse. THE MACHINE Founded in 1918 by men who had watched the Tsars fall and concluded that no single leader could ever be trusted with a country that size. Membership passes from father to son. They appear in no database and no publication, and they own exactly one building on earth — a decommissioned Soviet missile silo on the Western Siberian Plain. They put Putin in power. Then Voronin. And for a decade they have ...

From the winner of the National Jewish Book Award—Ronald H. Balson's An Affair of Spies tells of a spy mission to rescue a defector from Germany and prevent the Nazis from creating an atomic bomb. Nathan Silverman grew up in Berlin in the 1920s, the son of a homemaker and a theoretical...

Nathan Tyler is an unassuming professor at a middling American university with a rather obscure specialty in mathematics—in short, a nobody from nowhere. So why is the White House calling? Summoned to Washington, DC, for a top-secret briefing, Nathan discovers that he’s the key to a massive foreign intelligence breakthrough. Reading between the lines of a cryptic series of equations, he could open a door straight into the heart of the Kremlin and change the global balance of power forever.

Mark Wolfe was the greatest spy of his generation. Now he's been put out to pasture. Gone are the days of dead-drops beneath railway station clocks in foreign lands that no longer exist - of dry-cleaning, double agents and triple crosses. Now Mark's stuck behind a desk in Vauxhall Cross in...

FromNew York Timesbestselling authors Steve Berry and Grant Blackwood comes an action-packed adventure: in the waning days of the Cold War, Luke Daniels embarks on a quest in search of the legendary library of Ivan the Terrible—the unlikely key to ending a looming threat orbiting two hundred...

In 2015, a major story broke exposing Hillary Clinton's role in approving the sale of an American uranium company to the Russian state nuclear agency Rosatom. An indispensable guide to the hidden background of recent events, Fallout shows how Putin's bid for nuclear dominance produced a series of political scandals that ultimately posed one of the greatest threats to our democracy in modern American history. 

In a world on the brink of nuclear war, one man stands between peace and global chaos. Following the devastating aftermath of a nuclear detonation in the Panama Canal, the world teeters on the edge of war. The Russian president's claims about a hidden Soviet weapons depot in Georgia escalate tensions, pushing the globe closer to the abyss of conflict. Acting U.S. President Jordan Stratton faces a nation in turmoil, grappling with the shadows of recent terrorist attacks and the critical condition of President Maggie Trousdale.

New York Times bestselling author Anne Sebba's moving biography of Ethel Rosenberg, the wife and mother whose execution for espionage-related crimes defined the Cold War and horrified the world. In June 1953, Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, a couple with two young sons, were led separately from...