Soviet Crime

“[A] callback to what makes Rapp such a special character, and a white-knuckle reminder of why this series remains the gold standard of the political thriller genre.” —The Real Book Spy Don Bentley completes the trilogy begun with American Assassin by taking Mitch Rapp back to his...

What is next for Adolf Hitler? Will his release from prison happen before Christmas, as Hanussen predicted? How will his personal realities affect humanity, now that its greatest enemy is again politically active? What further psychological truths will be revealed about this most complex, desperate and psychotic man? This volume explores the years following Hitler’s release from prison after he failed to grab power through his staged putsch. It further explores the intricacies of his psyche and some of the probable, possible answers to the decades-old questions surrounding this most hated...

Step into the rich history and culture of Mother Russia with this classic collection by esteemed writer Fyodor Dostoyevsky. With his penchant for gripping prose and powerful themes that unmasked the social struggles and intellectual clashes of his day, this audiobook collection brings his work to life for the contemporary listener.

A chilling, relentlessly suspenseful story of international intrigue and high-voltage political tension set in contemporary Russia, from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The General's Daughter. "Highly engaging super-suspense." —Kirkus Reviews On a dark road deep inside Russia, a...

ONE OF THE ECONOMIST'S BEST BOOKS OF 2025 The definitive history of Russia’s most secret spy program, from the earliest days of the Soviet Union to Putin’s invasion of Ukraine, and a revelatory examination of how that hidden history shaped both Russia and the West. More than a century...

Imagine immersing yourself in the most powerful, thought-provoking, and psychologically complex stories ever written-now curated into a single, comprehensive volume that brings Dostoevsky's brilliance to life like never before. The Complete Fyodor Dostoevsky Collection offers his most celebrated novels, novellas, and short stories, designed to captivate your mind and soul with timeless themes of guilt, redemption, madness, morality, and the human condition.

A propulsive, relentless page-turner filled with conspiracies, hope, and resilience, from a bestselling author. "Inventive, edgy and relentlessly gripping from the first page to the last." —Scott Turow, #1 bestselling author of Presumed Innocent Stalin's Soviet Union strives to be a paradise...

A Cambridge aristocrat. A disgruntled CIA officer. An FBI agent who knelt in church. Three men who sold the West to Moscow – and nearly won. Kim Philby, Aldrich Ames, Robert Hanssen – three double agents who betrayed their countries for ideology, money, and ego. This is the definitive account of the intelligence failures that let them operate for decades. The official histories celebrate the spies who saved the West. They bury the ones who tried to destroy it. The textbooks mention the Cambridge Five and the CIA moles in a single paragraph. But they never answer the question that haunts...

Misha Glenny's groundbreaking study of global organized crime is now the inspiration for an 8-part AMC crime drama starring James Norton (War and Peace), Juliet Rylance, and David Strathairn. With the collapse of the Soviet Union, the fall of the Berlin Wall, and the deregulation of...

The Venona Files are several intercepted communiques between the Soviet Union and American Communists following WWII. Some historians and journalists are starting to regard the Cold-War-era American Communist Party as nothing more than a quaint club of polite if misguided ideologues. In The Venona Secrets, Herbert Romerstein and Eric Breindel intend to create a new impression of treacherous Americans "who willfully gave their primary allegiance to a foreign power, the USSR."

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...

The “riveting, meticulously researched, and beautifully written” (Ben Macintyre, author of The Spy and the Traitor) true story chronicles the first and most legendary prisoner exchange of the Cold War, between East and West at Berlin’s Glienicke Bridge and Checkpoint Charlie “A...

Russian Oligarchs control all of the money in Russia but they are failing with the changing world and economy. They look to President Putin for protection and for a price, he agrees. Did a meteor really hit Russia. Secrets abound. But renegade spies are for hire to take out any who get in the way of the almighty Russian dollar. Decorated by supermodels and the highest-priced establishments in the old Soviet Union, the Oligarchs fight each other to hold on to the money while they kill off opponents. Even fleeing to England won't save any from the "Hammer," the former KGB agent who is the ...

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...

The final heart-pounding novel in the sensational Child 44 trilogy, from bestselling author Tom Rob Smith. Leo Demidov is no longer a member of Moscow's secret police. But when his wife, Raisa, and daughters Zoya and Elena are invited on a "Peace Tour" to New York City, he is immediately...

A dazzling spy thriller about a female CIA agent whose extraordinary facial recognition powers lead her into the dangerous heart of the Soviet Union—and the path of a killer who shouldn’t exist. ​ It is 1990 when Melvina Donleavy arrives in Soviet Belarus on her first undercover mission...

Don Bentley completes the trilogy begun with American Assassin by taking Mitch Rapp back to his fledgling assassin days, picking up where Kill Shot ended, on a mission to save the woman he loves amid a CIA showdown with the Russian intelligence services in a new thriller from the author of Vince...

Winter, 1947. Britain's secret services have been penetrated. The country is more vulnerable than ever - and Soviet leader Joseph Stalin knows it. He decides it is time to send his master of 'Special Tasks' to create extra chaos. But Stalin has a more important motive than mere disruption. He...

Amidst the enchanting, perpetual twilight of Saint Petersburg's White Nights festival, a darker reality unfolds for Inspectors Dmitri Petrov and Manislov Illich. Their seemingly straightforward assignment--revisiting two long unsolved cold cases, soon uncovers a disturbing sequence of interconnected crimes. What began as routine soon takes a sinister turn, hinting that the truths they seek are far more perilous than they could imagine. An intricate and captivating mystery, it plunges readers into the heart of Saint Petersburg's hidden darkness. "With atmospheric prose and a sinister plot, ...

This latest pulse-pounding installment in Vince Flynn's #1 New York Times bestselling series takes Mitch Rapp back to his fledgling assassin days, completing the trilogy begun with American Assassin and Kill Shot. The Central Intelligence Agency is in crisis. Following the collapse of the Soviet...