Spy Middle East

Shane Collins, a world-weary CIA spy, is ready to come in from the cold. Stationed in Bahrain off the coast of Saudi Arabia for his final tour, he has little use for his mission—uncovering Iranian support for the insurgency against the monarchy. Then Collins meets Almaisa, a beautiful and enigmatic artist, and his eyes are opened to a side of Bahrain most expats never experience, to questions he never thought to ask.

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.

In the secret world of spies and covert operations, no other intelligence service continues to be surrounded by myth and mystery as does the Mossad. Created in 1951 to ensure the future of an embattled Israel, Mossad is responsible for the most audacious and thrilling feats of espionage, counterterrorism, and assassination. To some, Mossad is the precise and at times lethal instrument of Israel's will, a fiercely dedicated group of men and women: an elite intelligence arm.

On February 28, 2013, after pleading guilty to violating the Intelligence Identities Protection Act, John Kiriakou began serving a 30 month prison sentence. His crime: blowing the whistle on the CIA's use of torture on al Qaeda prisoners. Doing Time Like a Spy is Kiriakou's memoir of his 23 months in prison. Using 20 life skills he learned in CIA operational training, he was able to keep himself safe and at the top of the prison social heap. It is at once a searing journal of daily prison life and an alternately funny and heartbreaking commentary on the federal prison system.

What if one impossible decision during a suspenseful mission shattered everything you believed about your past? Set deep within the world of contemporary Israeli espionage, Behind the Trigger is a psychological spy thriller where covert operations collide with buried trauma, and the cost of trust is life or death. Irit is no cliché female protagonist. She’s a Mossad field agent, mother, and wife - trained to complete missions, not confront her past. But when a thrilling assignment sparks an unexpected connection with Noor - the wife of a Syrian missiles engineer - everything changes. Two...

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....

What if your only shot at redemption meant risking your life to uncover one of history’s greatest mysteries - buried deep in enemy territory? Set among the sacred stone walls of modern-day Bethlehem, Operation Bethlehem is a gripping spy thriller fused with the suspense of a rare archeological mystery. Beneath this ancient city, where every step is tracked and every motive is suspect, lies a secret no one dares to find. Daniel, a former Mossad operative haunted by failure and desperate to find his purpose again, goes undercover for a dangerous mission of his own. But he’s not alone. ...

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...

The Good Spy is Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer Kai Bird’s compelling portrait of the remarkable life and death of one of the most important operatives in CIA history - a man who, had he lived, might have helped heal the rift between Arabs and the West. On April 18, 1983, a bomb exploded outside the American Embassy in Beirut, killing 63 people. The attack was a geopolitical turning point. It marked the beginning of Hezbollah as a political force, but even more important, it eliminated America’s most influential and effective intelligence officer in the Middle East - CIA operative Robert Ames.

The Iran Wars is an absorbing account of a battle waged on many levels - military, financial, and covert. Jay Solomon’s book is the product of extensive in-depth reporting and interviews with all the key players in the conflict - from high-ranking Iranian officials to Secretary of State John Kerry and his negotiating team. With a reporter’s masterly investigative eye and the narrative dexterity of a great historian, Solomon shows how Iran’s nuclear development went unnoticed for years by the international community only to become its top security concern.

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, ...

As World War II raged in North Africa, General Erwin Rommel was guided by an uncanny sense of his enemies' plans and weaknesses. In the summer of 1942, he led his Axis army swiftly and terrifyingly toward Alexandria, with the goal of overrunning the entire Middle East. Each step was informed by detailed updates on British positions. The Nazis, somehow, had a source for the Allies' greatest secrets.

In the early 1980s on a remote part of the Sudanese coast, a new luxury holiday resort opened for business. Catering for divers, it attracted guests from around the world. Little did the holidaymakers know that the staff were undercover spies, working for the Mossad - the Israeli secret service. Providing a front for covert night-time activities, the holiday village allowed the agents to carry out an operation unlike any seen before. What began with one cryptic message pleading for help, turned into the secret evacuation of thousands of Ethiopian Jews....

As one of al-Qaeda's most respected bomb-makers, Aimen Dean rubbed shoulders with the mastermind of the 9/11 attacks and swore allegiance to Osama bin Laden himself. As a double agent at the heart of al-Qaeda's chemical weapons program, he foiled attacks on civilians and saved countless lives, brushing with death so often that his handlers began to call him their spy with nine lives. This is the story of how a young Muslim, determined to defend his faith, found himself fighting on the wrong side - and his fateful decision to work undercover for his sworn enemy.

CIA agent Mitch Rapp battles global terrorism in a high-octane follow-up to the best seller Separation of Power. When a platoon of Navy SEALs, sent on a top secret mission to save an American family kidnapped by Islamic terrorists, is caught in a deadly ambush, Rapp must find out who told the enemy. But a greater threat still lurks. An assassin working closely with the highest powers in the Middle East is bent on igniting war.

A savage Middle Est terror group threatening the free world, a war reporter held hostage… only one man to bring them down and bring her out! Henry Crowne, repentant financial terrorist has escaped London’s top High-Security prison with the unexpected help of MI6. His mission… infiltrate an unstoppable terror group that wrings havoc in the West and will destabilise the Middle East further. Henry’s perilous journey leads him to the group’s centre of power in Syria and Iraq. His aim, to meet the elusive man who runs a merciless war against those who oppose him and gain his trust. ...

In The Crash of Flight 3804, Investigative Journalist Charlotte Dennett digs into her father’s counterintelligence work, which pitted him against America’s wartime allies - the British, the French, and the Russians - in a covert battle for geopolitical and economic influence in the Middle East. Through vivid storytelling, extensive research, and deep analysis of region-defining maps, she reveals how feverish competition among intelligence networks, military, and Big Oil interests have fueled indiscriminate attacks and targeted killings that continue to this day.

This is the story of the most successful espionage coup of the twentieth century. Taut, political and utterly captivating, Triple is a spy thriller from master storyteller and author of The Pillars of the Earth, Ken Follett. A Frightening Discovery 1968. The fledgling nation of Israel is...

On September 17, 2024, 4,500 pagers exploded simultaneously across Lebanon. The casualties were all members of Hezbollah. The operation was not born in a vacuum. In the aftermath of October 7, 2023, a day that changed global security perceptions and exposed the fragility of modern warfare, Israel’s intelligence community embarked on an unprecedented mission. What followed was more than a military response — it was a turning point that redefined the boundaries of covert operations. The Israeli Mossad faced three impossible challenges: 1️⃣ Transform ordinary pagers into remote-...

A daring work of fiction inspired by one of the most astonishing intelligence operations in modern history. Can a book be, all at once, a gripping espionage thriller, a globe-spanning adventure, and an intimate diary of wounded and loving souls? This one proves it can. At the heart of the novel lies The Beeper Operation, a daring, covert mission crossing borders, intelligence agencies, and moral boundaries. But beyond the operational details, the advanced devices, and the high-stakes assignments, the story leads the reader somewhere else entirely: deep into the hearts and minds of the ...