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The spy who loved: the secrets and lives of Christine Granville
By Clare Mulley. 2013
Examination of the life of Christine Granville, née Krystyna Skarbek (1908-1952), a spy for Britain's Special Operations Executive during World…
War II. Details her early years in Poland, operations she ran, and her many lovers--one of whom murdered her. Some violence. 2012A death in the Lucky Holiday Hotel: murder, money, and an epic power struggle in China
By Wenguang Huang, Pin Ho, Pin He. 2013
Journalists recount the 2011 murder of British business consultant Neil Heywood in China and the subsequent investigation that revealed scandals…
and power struggles within the Communist Party. They contend that unwanted international media attention directly influences Chinese politics. 2013Damn few: making the modern SEAL warrior
By Ellis Henican, Rorke Denver. 2013
Retired Lieutenant Commander Denver describes the training and attitude it takes to be a successful Navy SEAL. Discusses his missions…
in the Middle East and his later duty directing the SEAL's training program. Relates his role in making the movie Act of Valor. Violence and strong language. 2013Hunting the jackal: a special forces and CIA soldier's fifty years on the frontlines of the war against terrorism
By Tim Keown, Billy Waugh. 2005
Army Special Forces and CIA operative Billy Waugh chronicles his half-century career, which took him to sixty-four countries and included…
covert missions trailing Osama bin Laden in 1991 and 1992 and a pivotal role in the 1994 capture of Carlos the Jackal. Some violence and some strong language. 2004Iranian author--writing under a pseudonym and changing some details to avoid retaliation--recounts the years he spied for the CIA in…
Iran. Explains why he grew disillusioned with the Revolutionary Guards and offered to help the United States, where he had studied in the 1970s. Some violence. 2010Argo: how the CIA and Hollywood pulled off the most audacious rescue in history
By Matt Baglio, Antonio Mendez, Antonio J. Mendez. 2012
Former CIA officer Mendez recounts the rescue of six Americans who escaped from the U.S. embassy in Tehran on November…
4, 1979, when it was overrun by militants. Details the plan to extract the diplomats from Iran disguised as members of a Hollywood film crew. Some strong language. 2012Double cross: the true story of the D-day spies
By Ben Macintyre. 2012
Author of Operation Mincemeat (DB 71406) recounts the deception the Allies used to keep secret the planned location of their…
1944 invasion of France. Details the efforts of Tommy "Tar" Robertson of Britain's MI5 to turn playboys, party girls, and eccentrics--all of whom were Nazi spies--into double agents. Bestseller. 2012Four books in a series provide an overview of the history of espionage. Discusses spies, double agents, techniques, gadgets, and…
codes. Spy Gizmos and Gadgets describes George Washington's successful use of invisible ink during the American Revolution. Includes career guides, secret facts, and more. For grades 4-7. 2012The art of intelligence: lessons from a life in the CIA's clandestine service
By Henry A. Crumpton. 2012
Former CIA Clandestine Service officer, counterterrorism expert, and ambassador-at-large recounts his career. Discusses covert operations and their value, recruitment and…
training of agents, and intelligence collection. Describes the strategies and operations used in Afghanistan after the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks. 2012Manhunt: the ten-year search for Bin Laden from 9/11 to Abbottabad
By Peter L. Bergen. 2012
CNN's national security analyst, who interviewed Osama bin Laden in 1997, chronicles the terrorist leader's movements from September 11, 2001,…
until his May 2011 death at the hands of U.S. Navy SEALS in Pakistan. Highlights the decade-long hunt, the successful final mission, and the implications for al-Qaeda. Violence. 2012The secrets of the FBI
By Ronald Kessler. 2011
Journalist and author of The Bureau (DB 55193) and The FBI (DB 37795) relates information he uncovered through research and…
interviews with bureau agents. Discusses controversial topics involving the FBI from the 1960s to 2011, including Hoover's sexual orientation and the raid on Osama Bin Laden's compound. 2011Sleeping with the enemy: Coco Chanel's secret war
By Hal Vaughan. 2011
American diplomat and foreign correspondent uses overseas archives to document French fashion designer Coco Chanel's collaboration with the Nazis during…
World War II. Discusses Chanel's childhood; emergence on the social scene as a couture, perfume maker, and mistress of titled men; anti-Semitism; and involvement with the Nazi Schutzstaffel (SS). 2011The triple agent: the al-Qaeda mole who infiltrated the CIA
By Joby Warrick. 2011
Pulitzer Prize-winning Washington Post journalist details the December 30, 2009, gathering in Khost, Afghanistan, of CIA and U.S. military officials…
and Pakistani and Afghani operatives to meet Jordanian pediatrician and spy Humam Khalil al-Balawi. Relates Balawi's subsequent suicide bombing, which killed himself and seven CIA personnel. 2011The company we keep: a husband-and-wife true-life spy story
By Robert Baer, Dayna Baer. 2011
The author of See No Evil (DB 53770), the basis for the movie Syriana, and his wife Dayna share their…
anecdotes of working for the CIA. They describe their first meeting while on assignment in the Balkans and recount falling in love years later. Some strong language. 2011Author of Wildflower (DB 70537) investigates the case of Christian Gerhartsreiter, who came to America from Germany in 1978 and…
adopted a series of blue-blood identities. Details Gerhartsreiter's schemes, including his last and biggest, when he posed as "Clark Rockefeller" and kidnapped his own daughter. Some strong language. Bestseller. 2011Framed by an account of housewife and mother Greta Kuckhoff, this chronicle of resistance to the Nazis by a group…
of artists, intellectuals, and German government workers in Berlin details the actions and risks these ordinary citizens took to protest anti-Semitism--and relates the consequences. 2009Legacy of ashes: the history of the CIA
By Tim Weiner. 2007
Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter investigates sixty years of the Central Intelligence Agency. Uses archival documents and interviews to illustrate that the…
agency's mission of gathering intelligence has faltered due to blunders, structural flaws, and philosophical conflicts. Posits that national security is jeopardized by the CIA's disarray. National Book Award. Bestseller. 2007Wild Bill Donovan: the spymaster who created the OSS and modern American espionage
By Douglas C. Waller, Douglas Waller. 2011
Biography of William J. Donovan (1883-1959), a World War I hero and attorney whom President Franklin Roosevelt tasked with forming…
a civilian intelligence agency in 1941. Describes spy operations of the Office of Strategic Services (OSS) during World War II and the agency's feud with the FBI. 2011The watchers: the rise of America's surveillance state
By Shane Harris. 2010
Journalist examines U.S. government data-mining technologies. Profiles national security advisor John Poindexter and examines his controversial total-information-awareness system and his…
role in monitoring U.S. citizens in an effort to track suspected terrorists. Discusses America's definitions of privacy and security in the Internet age. 2010Bonhoeffer: pastor, martyr, prophet, spy : a Righteous Gentile vs. the Third Reich
By Eric Metaxas. 2010
Biography of German theologian Dietrich Bonhoeffer (1906-1945), who was born into an aristocratic family and executed for his part in…
a failed plot to kill Adolph Hitler. Discusses Bonhoeffer's childhood, musical training, travels throughout Europe and America, and spiritual convictions. Includes excerpts from his correspondence and journal entries. 2010