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.

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...

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...

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.

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.

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...

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...

The “terrifically good” (The New York Times Book Review) finale in the New York Times bestselling Red Sparrow trilogy is a gripping espionage thriller that continues the dangerous entanglements of Russian counterintelligence chief Dominika Egorova and her lover, CIA agent Nate Nash, on the...

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 ...

Two legendary former CIA operatives reveal the tactics they developed to survive the Cold War in Moscow and turn the odds in America’s favor—as referenced in Apple TV’s Emmy-winning spy thriller series, Slow Horses. “Devilishly fun.” —New York Times Book Review Antonio and Jonna...

Forty-eight hours. One attack. And a decision that could pull NATO into war. When a coordinated drone strike hits a NATO logistics facility in Poland, the evidence appears damning. Russian components. Russian signatures. Russian methods. Within hours, governments are preparing for the unthinkable. But CIA operations officer Daniel Mercer sees a problem. The intelligence proves where the attack came from. It does not prove who gave the order. Then one of Mercer’s most sensitive Russian sources sends a warning: NO TASKING. NO AUTHORITY. ATTRIBUTION IS BEING BUILT. As pressure mounts in ...

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...

“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 ...

Bersanov has risen far enough inside Russian intelligence to matter and far enough to be destroyed by exactly the kind of scrutiny that comes with real power. When a rival on the confirmation board begins building a case that Bersanov’s results are too convenient to be entirely his own, CIA officers Phil Swain and Tatiyana Druyanova find themselves doing something they never intended: manufacturing evidence to help a Russian officer survive his own institution’s judgment. It is not the only debt coming due. Berlin station chief Merrick has spent thirty years guarding a compromise ...

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.

One of ‘the heirs to John le Carré’ The Times ‘A tremendous achievement’ WILLIAM BOYD ‘Behold the new Golden Age of Spy Kings’ Sunday Times To betray, you must first belong… In June 1934, Kim Philby met his Soviet handler, the spy Arnold Deutsch. The woman who introduced them was...

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 ...

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...

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 ...

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...