Spy Middle East

Jake Keller finds himself in a familiar position—on the run for his life and desperate to find the shadowy figures behind a global conspiracy. CIA agent Jake Keller and his partner, Curt Roach, are in Yemen on an important mission. They've been tipped off to a secret meeting of top al Qaeda...

A thirty-nine-day war between the United States and Iran ends the way modern wars end now: not in surrender, but in a memorandum. The guns go silent. The money is promised. The world exhales. Buried within the language of the peace are nineteen words that quietly abandon the people who believed the bombing meant deliverance. In Washington, a small policy institute that has spent its life describing the world decides, for the first time, to act on it, and learns that the line between analysis and operation, once crossed, cannot be uncrossed.

“A persuasive affirmation of a shocking conspiracy theory.” —Publishers Weekly (starred review) “Unger has pursued the story of the October surprise for more than 30 years, often to his own cost. …peppered with amazing details… Den of Spies comes out in a world where dark...

The coat is real. The name tag is real. The man wearing them does not exist. Winner of the 2023 National Jewish Book Award for Hebrew Fiction in Translation, Operation Bethlehem is a gripping espionage thriller about the most dangerous instrument in intelligence work: a man living full-time as someone else. Daniel Ben Attar was a Mossad undercover spy until a single uncontrolled decision ended his career. Now he walks the wards of a psychiatric hospital in Bethlehem as Jalal, a French volunteer – no handler, no backup, no authorization. Only the conviction that something hidden inside ...

When the Lebanese militant organization Hezbollah abandoned smartphones in favor of “untraceable” pagers, its commanders believed they had finally escaped Israeli intelligence. They were wrong. FROM ETHAN HAREL — a writer with firsthand access to people connected to the real operation — comes the classified story behind one of the boldest intelligence missions of the century. When a young Mossad officer, Yael, discovers a narrow and nearly impossible opportunity to turn thousands of enemy pagers into synchronized remote-triggered bombs, she’s dismissed, doubted, and nearly shut ...

The four spies at the center of this story were part of a ragtag unit known as the Arab Section, conceived during World War II by British spies and Jewish militia leaders in Palestine. Intended to gather intelligence and carry out sabotage and assassinations, the unit consisted of Jews who were native to the Arab world and could thus easily assume Arab identities. In 1948, with Israel's existence in the balance during the War of Independence, our spies went undercover in Beirut, where they spent the next two years operating out of a kiosk....

Political figures are being assassinated ...across the Middle East Abandoned in the Middle East with terrorist groups angry at him and the American government accusing him of murder, CIA operative Dean Wells has only one way to save his life and clear his name. He must bring peace to the region. In acclaimed thriller author Fritz Galt’s “vividly portrayed locations” from the souks of Syria to the underwater world of the Red Sea, and from Jordan to Jerusalem, you’ll feel the hot desert wind breathing down your neck. Dean must assemble a cast of shadowy misfits to take on the CIA, ...

Kamran Esfahani, a dentist living out a dreary existence in Stockholm, agrees to spy for the Mossad after he’s recruited by Arik Glitzman, the chief of a clandestine unit tasked with running targeted assassinations and sabotage inside Iran. At Glitzman’s direction, Kam returns to his native Tehran and opens a dental practice there, using it as a cover for the Israeli intelligence agency. Kam proves to be a skillful asset, quietly earning money helping Glitzman smuggle weapons, run surveillance, and conduct kidnappings.

She was trained to slip unseen into hotel rooms and secure facilities. Not into another woman's trust. Behind the Trigger is a psychological spy thriller about the most intimate instrument in intelligence work: another human being. Irit is a Mossad field operative – and a wife, and a mother. When an operational mishap puts her face to face with Noor, the strong-willed wife of a Syrian weapons engineer, the Mossad sees an opening. Irit's role is meant to be brief. Controlled. Temporary. Until it isn't. Irit knows what she is building and why. Noor does not – but Noor is watching, testing...

THE ROGUE OF RIYADH Book 3 of The Maiden of Maiduguri Series “The girl who survived everything must now survive the truth — in front of the world.” The first time Zarah Musa escaped a terrorist empire, she disappeared into the shadows. This time, the shadows are hunting her back. Riyadh was supposed to be a controlled intelligence operation. A quiet ECOWAS counterterror mission inside Saudi Arabia’s security apparatus. Instead, it becomes a manhunt buried beneath royal wealth, state surveillance, and a covert network that has spent years financing chaos across Africa without leaving...

From Qasem Soleimani to the nuclear deal, a deeply reported exploration of Iran’s decades-long power struggle with the United States—in the tradition of Steve Coll’s Ghost Wars and Lawrence Wright’s The Looming Tower “A front-row view of the spy games, assassinations, political...

This “smart, thought-provoking, rising crescendo of suspense” (The Real Book Spy) pits the intelligence of one man against one of the most successful spies ever to operate against American interests. When a young Israeli walks into an American embassy and offers to betray his country for...

In this World War II military history, Rommel's army is a day from Cairo, a week from Tel Aviv, and the SS is ready for action. Espionage brought the Nazis this far, but espionage can stop them—if Washington wakes up to the danger. As World War II raged in North Africa, General Erwin Rommel...

The larger-than-life exploits of Walter Patrick Lang—the Green Beret at the center of America’s covert conflicts from the Cold War to the War on Terror. Army Colonel Walter Patrick Lang led the life that many men would love to live. He faced firefights on three continents and led a band of...

A CIA analyst's of the world of high-stakes foreign intelligence and her role within the campaign to stop top-tier targets inside Al-Qaida. "Revealing and utterly engrossing account." —Joby Warrick, author of Black Flags: The Rise of Isis​ In 1999, 30-year-old Nada Bakos moved from her...

Bloomsbury presents Shadow Strike by Brad Taylor, read by Rich Orlow. The breathtaking new thriller from New York Times bestselling author Brad Taylor sees Taskforce operative Pike Logan tracking down an infamous assassin in Argentina. A rogue group of Iranian officials plots the assassination...

From a New York Times bestselling author, secret agent Jason Bourne can't help but feel connected to a man who also has amnesia—and the truth behind his identity could save Bourne's life. The man Jason Bourne fishes out of the freezing sea is near death. He awakens with no memory of who he is...

#1 New York Times bestselling author Daniel Silva delivers another action-packed tale of high stakes international intrigue. Master novelist Daniel Silva has thrilled readers with twenty-six thoughtful and gripping spy novels featuring the 'much-loved Gabriel Allon”'(Booklist) and ingenious...

New York Times bestselling author Kyle Mills rewrites the rules for thrillers with Fade—a novel ripped from today's headlines Welcome to the new war on terror. A secret wing of Homeland Security is recruiting agents to work undercover in the Middle East, and the director wants his...

Beirut, 1943. The French Mandate is ending — and someone is using its last unguarded months to settle an old account. Charles Eddington arrives in the most beautiful city of the war with a title that means nothing and instructions no one will admit to having signed. Couriers are dying on the mountain roads above the city — careful men, on unconnected routes, none of them robbed. No one in the cracking machinery of the Mandate wants the question asked, least of all the charming French intelligence officer who befriends Charles over drinks at the St. Georges and warns him, with real ...