Spy v. Spy

What’s with all the new nonfiction espionage books on the library shelves these days? Is it a plot? Keep your wits about you and click on the titles to check availability in our catalog.

Biographies
Agent Sonya: Moscow’s Most Daring Wartime Spy by Ben Macintyre
Atomic Spy: The Dark Lives of Klaus Fuchs by Nancy Thorndike Greenspan
Code Name Madeleine: A Sufi Spy in Nazi-Occupied Paris by Arthur J. Magida
The Princess Spy: The True Story of World War II Spy Aline Griffith, Countess of Romanones by Larry Loftis
The Spymaster of Baghdad: A True Story of Bravery, Family and Patriotism in the Battle Against ISIS by Margaret Coker
The Unexpected Spy: From the CIA to the FBI, My Secret Life Taking Down Some of the Most Notorious Terrorists, by Tracy Walder

Espionage during the Cold War
Betrayal in Berlin: The True Story of the Cold War’s Most Audacious Espionage Operation by Steve Vogel
Dead Doubles: The Extraordinary Worldwide Hunt for One of the Cold War’s Most Notorious Spy Rings by Trevor Barnes
The Quiet Americans: Four CIA Spies at the Dawn of the Cold War–A Tragedy in Three Acts by Scott Anderson

World War II
The Art of Resistance: My Four Years in the French Underground: A Memoir by Justus Rosenberg
Information Hunters: When Librarians, Soldiers and Spies Banded Together in World War II Europe by Kathy Peiss
The Nazi Spy Ring in America: Hitler’s Agents, the FBI, and the Case that Stirred the Nation by Rhodri Jeffries-Jones
Sleeper Agent: The Atomic Spy in America Who Got Away by Ann Hagedorn
War of Shadows: Codebreakers, Spies and the Secret Struggle to Drive the Nazis from the Middle East by Gershom Gorenberg

CIA Secrets
Life Undercover: Coming of Age in the CIA by Amaryllis Fox
Risk Taker, Spy Maker: Tales of a CIA Case Officer by Barry Michael Broman
The Spymasters: How the CIA Directors Shape History and the Future by Chris Whipple

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