New and Noteworthy
- The Hidden Hand: Britain, America, and Cold War Secret Intelligence. London: John Murray, 2001.
- Her Majesty's Spymaster: Elizabeth I, Sir Francis Walsingham, and the Birth of Modern Espionage. New York: Viking Penguin, 2005.
- Sovereignty and Intelligence: Spying and Court Culture in the English Renaissance. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 1993.
21st Century - Contracting
- Licensed to Kill: Hired Guns in the War on Terror. New York: Three Rivers Press, 2006.
- Spies for Hire: The Secret World of Intelligence Outsourcing. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2008.
- Master of War: Blackwater USA’s Erik Prince and the Business of War. New York: Harper Collins, 2009.
21st Century - Cyber
- Inside Cyber Warfare: Mapping the Cyber Underworld. Cabridge: O’Reilly Media, 2010.
- Cyber War: The Next Threat to National Security and What To Do about It. New York: HarperCollins, 2010.
- The Cuckoo’s Egg: Tracking a Spy through the Maze of Computer Espionage. New York: Doubleday, 1989.
21st Century - Terrorism
- The Age of Sacred Terror. New York: Random House, 2002.
- Jawbreaker: The Attack on Bin Laden and al Qaeda: A Personal Account by the CIA’s Key Field Commander. New York: Crown Publishers, 2005.
- Terrorism for Self-Glorification: The Herostratos Syndrome. Kent & London: The Kent University Press, 2005.
- Global Jihadism: Theory and Practice. London: Routledge, 2008.
- The Lessons of Terror: A History of Warfare against Civilians. New York: Random House, 2003.
- Against All Enemies: Inside America’s War on Terror. New York: Free Press, 2004.
- Ghost Wars: The Secret History of the CIA, Afghanistan, and Bin Laden from the Soviet Invasion to September 10, 2001. New York: Penguin, 2005.
- Why Terrorism Works: Understanding the Threat, Responding to the Challenge. New Haven & London: Yale University Press, 2002.
- Terrorism: Political Violence at Home and Abroad. Berkeley Heights. NJ: Enslow Publishers, 2001.
- Without Precedent: The Inside Story of the 9/11 Commission. New York: Vintage Books, 2007.
- The War against the Terror Masters. New York: St. Martin’s Press, 2002.
- The Terrorist Next Door: The Militia Movement and the Radical Right. New York: Thomas Dunne, 2002.
- Denial and Deception: An Insider’s View of the CIA from Iran/Contra to 9/11. New York: Thunder’s Mouth, 2005.
- Inside the Jihad: My Life With al Qaeda: A Spy’s Story. New York: Basic Books, 2006.
- The 9/11 Commission Report: The Full Final Report of the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States. New York: Norton, 2004.
- Protecting the American Homeland: A Preliminary Analysis. Washington. DC: Brookings Institution Press, 2002.
- Terrorism and U.S. Foreign Policy. Washington: Brookings Institution, 2003.
- The Search for Al Qaida: Its Leadership, Ideology and Future. Washington: Brookings Institution, 2010.
- The Search for Al Qaida: Its Leadership, Ideology and Future. Washington: Brookings Institution, 2010.
- Understanding Terror Networks. University of Pennsylvania Press, 2004.
- First In: An Insider’s Account of How the CIA Spearheaded the War on Terror in Afghanistan. New York: Presidio Press/Ballantine Books, 2006.
- Still the Target: Coping with Terror and Crime. Baltimore, MD: Noble House, 2003.
- The Terrorist Perspectives Project: Strategic and Operational Views of al Qaida and Associated Movements. Annapolis: Naval Institute Press, 2008.
- New World Coming: American Security in the 21st Century: http://www.nssg.gov/NWR_A.pdf.
- Joint Inquiry into Intelligence Community Activities before and after the Terrorist Attacks of September 11, 2001. Washington: United States Congress, 2002.
American Revolution
- Tories: Fighting for the King in America’s First Civil War. New York: Harper Collins, 2010.
- Spies of the Revolution. Scholastic Book Services, 1962.
- History of the Secret Service. General L.C. Baker, 1867.
- The Man in the Mirror: A Life of Benedict Arnold. Random House, Inc, 1994.
- Code Number 72/ Ben Franklin: Patriot or Spy?. Prentice-Hall Inc, 1972.
- Treason at West Point: the Arnold-Andre Conspiracy. Mason/Charter, 1975.
- Invisible Ink: Spycraft of the American Revolution. Yardley: Westholme Publishing, 2009.
- Secret New England: Spies of the American Revolution. David Atlee Phillips New England Chapter Association of Former Intelligence Officers, 1991.
Ancient World
- Espionage in Ancient India: From the Earliest Times to 12th Century A.D. Calcutta, India: Minerva Associates, 1990.
- Hezekiah and the Assyrian Spies: Reconstruction of the Neo-Assyrian Intelligence Services and Its Significance for 2 Kings 18-19. Roma: Pontificio Istituto biblico, 2006.
- Origins of Intelligence Services: The Ancient Near East, Persia, Greece, Rome, Byzantium, the Arab Muslim Empires, the Mongol Empire, China, Muscovy. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 1974.
- Espionage and Treason: A Study of the Proxenia in Political and Military Intelligence Gathering in Ancient Greece. Amsterdam: J.C. Gieben, 1986.
- The Arthashastra. New York: Penguin, 1992.
- Information Gathering in Ancient Greece. Ann Arbor, MI: University of Michigan Press, 1999.
- The Tao of Spycraft: Intelligence Theory and Practice in Traditional China. Boulder: Westview Press, 1998.
- Intelligence Activities in Ancient Rome: Trust the Gods But Verify. New York: Frank Cass, 2005.
- Operation Messiah: Roman Intelligence and the Birth of Christianity. Portland: Valentine Mitchell, 2008.
- The Art of War. . New York: Barnes & Noble, 1994.
Bristish Empire
- Empire and Information: Intelligence Gathering and Social Communication in India, 1780-1870. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1996.
- The Great Game: The Struggle for Empire in Central Asia. New York: Kodansha International, 1992.
- Spies in the Empire: Victorian Military intelligence. New York: Anthem Press, 2007.
British And French Empires - 20th Century
- Spies in Arabia: The Great War and the Cultural Foundations of Britain’s Covert Empire in the Middle East. New York: Oxford University Press, 2008.
- Empires of Intelligence: Security Services and Colonial Disorder after 1914. . Berkeley: University of California Press, 2008.
- The Arab Bureau: British Policy in the Middle East, 1916-1920. University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2003.
Business Intelligence
- Broker, Trader, Lawyer Spy: Inside the Secret World of Corporate Espionage. New York: Harper, 2010.
Central Intelligence Agency
- The Main Enemy: The Inside Story of the CIA’s Final Showdown with the KGB. New York: Ballantine Books, 2003.
- A Spy for All Seasons: My Life in the CIA. New York: Scribner, 2007.
- Honorable Men: My Life in the CIA. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1978.
- The CIA’s Secret War in Tibet. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2002.
- Feet to the Fire: CIA Covert Operations in Indonesia, 19557-1958. Annapolis: Naval Institute Press, 1999.
- On the Brink: An Insider’s Account of How the White House Compromised American Intelligence. New York: Carroll & Graf Publishers, 2006.
- From the Shadows: The Ultimate Insider’s Story of Five Presidents and How They Won the Cold War. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1996.
- Gentleman Spy: The Life of Allen Dulles. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1994.
- A Look over My Shoulder: A Life in the CIA. New York: Random House, 2003.
- Cold Warrior: James Jesus Angleton: The CIA’s Master Spy Hunter. Simon and Schuster, 1991.
- The Master of Disguise: My Secret Life in the CIA. New York: William Morrow & Co., 2000.
- Our Man in Mexico: Winston Scott and the Hidden History of the CIA. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2008.
- Casey: From the OSS to the CIA. New York: Viking, 1990.
- The Black Bats: CIA Spy Flights over China from Taiwan, 1951-1969. Atglen: Schiffer Publishing, 2010.
- Project Azorian: The CIA and the Raising of K-129. Annapolis: Naval Institute Press, 2010.
- The Man Who Kept the Secrets: Richard Helms and the CIA. New York: Knopf, 1979.
- Safe for Democracy: The Secret Wars of the CIA. Chicago: Ivan R. Dee, 2006.
- . William Colby and the CIA : The Secret Wars of a Controversial Spymaster. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2009.
- The Agency: The Rise and Decline of the CIA. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1987.
- The Wizards of Langley: Inside the CIA’s Directorate of Science and Technology. Boulder: Westview, 2002.
- The Cultural Cold War: The CIA and the World of Arts and Letters. New York: New Press, 1999.
- Spymaster: My Life in the CIA. Dulles: Potomac Books, 2005.
- Allen Dulles: Master of Spies. Washington: Regnery, 2000.
- Flawed Patriot: The Rise and Fall of CIA Legend Bill Harvey. Dulles: Potomac Books, 2008.
- At the Center of the Storm: My years at the CIA. New York: HarperCollins, 2007.
- The Very Best Men: Four Who Dared: The Early Years of the CIA. New York: Touchstone, 1996.
- Secrecy and Democracy: The CIA in Transition. New York: Perennial Library, 1986.
- The Mighty Wurlitzer: How the CIA Played America. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2008.
- Veil: The Secret Wars of the CIA, 1981-1987. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1987.
China
- Chinese Intelligence Operations. Annapolis: Naval Institute Press, 1994.
Civil War
- The War Between the Spies: A History of Espionage During the American Civil War. New York: Atlantic Monthly Press, 1992.
- Spies of the Confederacy. Philadelphia: Lippincott, 1970.
- Confederate Spy Stories. Philadelphia: Lippincott, 1973.
- Pauline Cushman: Spy of the Cumberland. Roseville, MN: Edinborough Press, 2006.
- Grant’s Secret Service: The Intelligence War from Belmont to Appomattox. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2002.
- The Secret War for the Union: The Untold Story of Military Intelligence in the Civil War. Houghton Mifflin Company, 1996.
- Spies for the Maroon and Gray. Garden City, NY: Hanover House, 1954.
- Spies and Spy Masters of the Civil War. New York: Hippocrene, 1994.
- Secret Missions of the Civil War: First-Hand Accounts by Men and Women Who Risked Their Lives in Underground Activities for the North and South. Chicago: Rand MacNally, 1959.
Cold War
- The Hidden Hand: Britain, America, and Cold War Secret Intelligence. London: John Murray, 2001.
- Operation Rollback: America’s Secret War behind the Iron Curtain. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2000.
Cold War - Cuban Missile Crisis
- Back to the Brink: Proceedings of the Moscow Conference on the Cuban Missile Crisis, January 27-28, 1989. Cambridge, Mass.: Center for Science and International Affairs, Harvard University; Lanham, Md.: University Press of America, 1992.
- Essence of Decision: Explaining the Cuban Missile Crisis.. Boston: Little Brown & Company, 1971.
- On the Brink: Americans and Soviets Reexamine the Cuban Missile Crisis. New York: Noonday, 1990.
- Intelligence and the Cuban Missile Crisis. London; Portland, OR: Frank Cass, 1998.
- Cuba on the Brink: Castro, the Missile Crisis, and the Soviet Collapse. New York: Pantheon Books, 1993.
- Eyeball to Eyeball: The Inside Story of the Cuban Missile Crisis. New York: Random House, 1991.
- Cuban Missile Crisis, 1962: A National Security Archive Documents Reader. National Security Archive Documents Reader,
- One Hell of a Gamble: Khrushchev, Castro, and Kennedy, 1958-1964. New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 1997.
- Thirteen Days: A Memoir of the Cuban Missile Crisis. New York: W.W. Norton, 1969.
- The Kennedy Tapes: Inside the White House During the Cuban Missile Crisis. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1997.
- CIA Documents on the Cuban Missile Crisis, 1962. Washington: Central Intelligence Agency, 1992.
- Missile in Cuba: Kennedy, Khrushchev, Castro and the 1962 Crisis. Chicago. Ivan R. Dee, Inc., 1997.
Cold War - Vietnam
- War of Numbers: An Intelligence Memoir. South Royalton: Steerforth Press, 1994.
- Shadow War: The CIA’s Secret War in Laos. Boulder: Paladin Press, 1995.
- Spies and Commandos: How America Lost the Secret War in Vietnam. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2001.
- Most Secret War: Army Signals Intelligence in Vietnam. Washington: Government Printing Office, 2003.
- Who the Hell Are We Fighting? The Story of Sam Adams and the Vietnam Intelligence Wars.. South Royalton: Steerforth Press, 2006.
- Phoenix and the Birds of Prey: Counterinsurgency and Counterterrorism in Vietnam. Lincoln: University of Nebraska, 2007.
- The Secret War Against Hanoi: Kennedy’s and Johnson’s Use of Spies, Saboteurs, and Covert Warriors in North Vietnam. New York: Harper Collins, 1999.
Counterintelligence
- Thwarting Enemies at Home and Abroad: How To Be A Counterintelligence Officer. Washington: Georgetown University Press, 2009.
- Vaults, Mirrors and Masks: Rediscovering U.S. Counterintelligence. Washington: Georgetown University Press, 2008.
Czechoslovakia
- Master of Spies: The Memoirs of General Frantisek Moravec. Alexandria: Time-Life, 1991.
Domestic Intelligence and Surveillance
- There’s Something Happening Here: The New Left, The Klan and FBI Counterintelligence. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2004.
- The Watchers: The Rise of America’s Surveillance State. New York: Penguin Press, 2010.
- Army Surveillance in America, 1775-1980. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1991.
- Negative Intelligence: The Army and the American Left, 1917-1941. Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 1991.
Early Modern Period
- Sovereignty and Intelligence: Spying and Court Culture in the English Renaissance. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 1993.
- Her Majesty's Spymaster: Elizabeth I, Sir Francis Walsingham, and the Birth of Modern Espionage. New York: Viking Penguin, 2005.
- Invisible Power: The Elizabethan Secret Services, 1570-1603. London: Sutton, 1992.
- Jacobite Spy War: Moles, Rogues and Treachery. Stroud, Gloucestershire: Sutton, 1999.
- Monsieur d'Eon Is A Woman: A Tale of Political Intrigue and Sexual Masquerade. New York: Basic Books, 1995.
- Intelligence and Espionage in the Reign of Charles II, 1660-1685. Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press, 1994.
- The Elizabethan Secret Service. New York: New York: St. Martin's Press, 1991.
- Secret Diplomacy: Espionage and Cryptography, 1500-1815. New York: Frederick Ungar, 1963.
France
- Outwitting the Gestapo. Lincoln, NE: University of Nebraska Press, 1993.
- Code Name Christiane Clouet: A Woman in the French Resistance. College Station, TX: Texas A&M Press, 1995.
- Behind Enemy Lines: The True Story of a French Jewish Spy in Nazi Germany. New York: Harmony, 2002.
- The Hunt for Nazi Spies: Fighting Espionage in Nazi France. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2008.
- The French Resistance: The True Story of the Underground War Against the Nazis. New York: Wanderer, 1984.
- The Surgeon and the Shepard: Two Resistance Heroes in Vichy France. Lincoln, NE: University of Nebraska Press, 2004.
- Fighting the Nazis: French Military Intelligence and Counterintelligence, 1935-1945. New York: Enigma, 2003.
- The French Secret Service: From the Dreyfus Affair to the Gulf War. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1995.
- Soldiers of the Night. The Story of the French Resistance. New York: Dutton, 1980.
- Sisters in the Resistance: The Women's War to Free France. New York: John Wiley, 1995.
- SAS With the Maquis: In Action With the French Resistance, June-September 1944. London: Greenhill Books, 1994.
General Reading
- Intelligence in an Insecure World. Malden: Polity Press, 2006.
- Intelligence Power in Peace and War. New York: Royal Institute of International Affairs, 1996.
- Analytic Culture in the U.S. Intelligence Community: An Ethnographic Study. Washington: Central Intelligence Agency, 2005.
- Intelligence: From Secrets to Policy, 4th ed.. Washington: CQ Press, 2009.
- Intelligence: From Secrets to Policy. 4th edition. Washington: CQ Press, 2009.
Germany - Berlin Tunnel
- Spies beneath Berlin. London: John Murray, 2002.
Germany - East Germany
- The Firm: The Inside Story of the Stasi. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2010.
- The Stasi: The East German Intelligence and Security Service. New York: New York University Press, London: Macmillan, 1996.
- Spy Master: The Real-Life Karla, His Moles, and the East German Secret Police. New York: Addison-Wesley, 1995.
- STASI: The Untold Story of the East German Secret Police. Boulder, CO: Westview, 1999.
- Battleground Berlin: CIA vs. KGB in the Cold War. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1997.
- Beyond the Wall: Memoirs of an East and West German Spy. New York: Brassey's, 1992.
- Man Without a Face: The Autobiography of Communism's Greatest Spymaster. New York: Times Books, 1997.
Germany - Federal Republic of Germany
- The Service: The Memoirs of General Reinhard Gehlen. New York: World Pub., 1972.
- The General Was a Spy: The Truth about General Gehlen and His Spy Ring. New York: Coward, McCann and Geoghegan, 1972.
Germany - Nazi Germany
- Nazi Spies in America: Hitler's Undercover War. New York: St. Martin's, 1990.
- Saboteurs: The Nazi Raid on America. New York: Knopf, 2004.
- Hitler’s Intelligence Chief: Walter Schellenberg. New York: Enigma, 2009.
- Canaris: Hitler's Master Spy. New York: Cooper Square Press, 1999.
- Hilter's Spies: German Military Intelligence in World War II. New York: Macmillan, 1978.
- Insidious Foes: The Axis Fifth Column and the American Home Front. New York: Oxford University Press, 1996.
- German Military Intelligence in World War II: The Abwehr. London: Hale, 1984.
- The Unseen War in Europe: Espionage and Conspiracy in the Second World War. New York: Random House, 1996.
- The Cicero Spy Affair: German Access to British Secrets in World War II. Westport, CT: Praeger, 1999.
Human Intelligence and Espionage - Celebrity Spies
- Marlene Dietrich: Life and Legend. New York: Morrow, 1992.
- Josephine Baker: The Hungry Heart. New York: Random House, 1993.
- Josephine, translated from the French by Mariana Fitzpatrick. New York: Harper & Row, 1977.
- The Catcher Was A Spy: The Mysterious Life of Moe Berg. New York; Pantheon Books, 1994.
- Marlene, translated from the German by Salvator Attanasio. New York: Grove Press, 1989.
- Print the Legend: The Life and Times of John Ford. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1999.
- Appetite for Life: The Biography of Julia Child. New York: Doubleday, 1997.
- John Ford: The Man and His Films. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1986.
- Naked at the Feast: A Biography of Josephine Baker. New York: Dodd, Mead, 1981.
- Moe Berg: Athlete, Scholar, Spy. Boston: Little, Brown, 1974.
- Searching for John Ford: A Life. New York: St. Martin's Press, 2001.
- Marlene Deitrich. New York: Knopf, 1993.
- Maroon Angel: The Life of Marlene Dietrich. New York: Doubleday, 1992.
- The Josephine Baker Story. London: Sanctuary, 2000.
- Dietrich: A Biography. London: Sanctuary, 2002.
Human Intelligence and Espionage - General
- A Short Course in the Secret War. Lanham: Madison Books, 2001.
- The CIA’s Russians. Annapolis: Naval Institute Press, 2001.
Intelligence Collection - Signals Intelligence, Codemaking, and Codebreaking
- Secret Messages: Codebreaking and American Diplomacy 1930-1945. Lawrence, KS: University Press of Kansas, 2000.
- Intelligence Investigations: How Ultra Changed History. London: Frank Cass, 1996.
- Winds of Freedom: The Story of the Navajo Code Talkers of World War II. Darien, CT: Two Bytes Pub. Co., 1992.
- Hitler's Japanese Confidant: General Oshima Hiroshi and MAGIC Intelligence, 1941-1945. Lawrence, KS: University Press of Kansas, 1993.
- Battle of Wits: The Complete Story of Codebreaking in World War II. New York: Free Press, 2000.
- Top Secret Ultra. London: Cassell, 1980.
- The Man Who Broke Purple: The Life of Colonel William F. Friedman, Who Deciphemaroon The Japanese Code in World War II. Boston: Little, Brown, 1977.
- MacArthur’s ULTRA: Codebreaking and the War against Japan, 1942-1945. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 1991.
- MacArthur’s ULTRA: Codebreaking and the War against Japan, 1942-1945. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 1991.
- Britain's Best Secret: Ultra's Base at Bletchley Park. Stroud, UK: Alan Sutton, 1994.
- Crossing the Pond: The Native American Effort in World War II. Denton TX: University of North Texas Press, 1999.
- Unravelling Enigma: Winning the Code War at Station X. Barnsley, South Yorkshire, UK: Leo Cooper/Pen & Sword Books, 2000.
- Capturing Enigma: How HMS Petard Seized the German Naval Codes. New York: Sutton, 1999.
- Codebreakers: The Inside Story of Bletchley Park. New York: Oxford University Press, 1993.
- Alan Turing: The Enigma of Intelligence. Simon & Schuster, 1987.
- Seizing the Enigma: The Race to Break the German U-Boat Codes, 1939-1943. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1991.
- The Codebreakers: The Comprehensive History of Secret Communication from Ancient Times to the Internet. New York: Scribner, 1996.
- Reader of Gentlemen’s Mail: Herbert O. Yardley and the Birth of American Codebreaking. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2004.
- Warriors: Navajo Code Talkers. Flagstaff, AZ: Northland Pub. Co., 1990.
- The Comanche Code Talkers of World War II. Austin, TX: University of Texas Press, 2002.
- The Ultra Americans: The U.S. Role in Breaking the Nazi Codes. New York: Stein & Day, 1986.
- The Story of Magic: Memoirs of an American Cryptologic Pioneer. Laguna Hills, CA: Aegean Park Press, 1998.
- Enigma: The Battle for the Code. London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2000.
- Electronic Intelligence in World War II: ULTRA and MAGIC -- A Bibliography. London: Meckler, 1994.
- Signals Intelligence in World War II: A Research Guide. Westport, CT: Greenwood, 1996.
- The Code Book: The Evolution of Secrecy from Mary Queen of Scots to Quantum Cryptography. New York: Doubleday, 1999.
- The Emperor's Codes: The Role of Bletchley Park in Breaking Japan's Secret Ciphers. London: Bantam, 2001.
- Station X: The Codebreakers of Bletchley Park. London: Channel 4 Books/Macmillan, 1998.
- The Hut Six Story: Breaking the Enigma Codes. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1982.
- The American Black Chamber. Annapolis: Naval Institute Press, 2004.
Intelligence Oversight
- The CIA and Congress: The Untold Story from Truman to Kennedy. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2005.
- The Agency and the Hill: CIA’s Relationship with Congress, 1946-2004. Washington: Central Intelligence Agency, 2008.
Israel
- The Israeli Secret Services and the Struggle Against Terrorism. New York: Columbia University Press, 2009.
- Son of Hamas. Carol Stream: SaltRiver, 2010.
Japan
- Japanese Intelligence in World War II. New York: Osprey, 2009.
- The Shadow Warriors of Nakano: A History of the Imperial Japanese Army’s Elite Intelligence School. Washington: Brassey’s, 2002.
Major Spy Cases
- Sellout: Aldrich Ames and the Corruption of the CIA. New York: Viking, 1995.
- Merchants of Treason: America's Secrets for Sale. New York: Delacorte, 1988.
- Merchants of Treason: America's Secrets for Sale. New York: Delacorte, 1988.
- Breaking the Ring: The Bizarre Case of the Walker Family Spy Ring. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1987.
- Out of Bondage: The Story of Elizabeth Bentley. New York: Ivy Books, 1988.
- I Pledge Allegiance… The True Story of the Walkers: An American Spy Family. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1987.
- True Believer: Inside the Investigation and Capture of Ana Montes, Cuba’s Master Spy. Annapolis: Naval Institute Press, 2007.
- Anthony Blunt: His Lives. London: Macmillan, 2001.
- A Spy at the Heart of the Third Reich: The Extraordinary Story of Fritz Kolbe, America’s Most Important Spy in World War II. New York: Atlantic Monthly Press, 2005.
- Curveball: Spies, Lies, and the Con Man Who Caused a War. New York: Random House, 2007.
- Confessions of a Spy: The Real Story of Aldrich Ames. New York: G. P. Putnam’s Sons, 1996.
- Family of Spies: Inside the John Walker Spy Ring. New York: Bantam Books, 1988.
- The Hunting Horse: The Truth Behind the Jonathan Pollard Spy Case. Amherst, N.Y.: Prometheus Books, 2000.
- The Spy Who Stayed Out in the Cold: The Secret Life of FBI Double Agent Robert Hanssen. New York: St. Martin’s Press, 2001.
- Spy Hunter: Inside the FBI Investigation of the Walker Espionage Case. Annapolis, MD: U.S. Naval Institute Press, 1999.
- Clever Girl: Elizabeth Bentley, The Spy Who Ushered in the McCarthy Era. New York: HarperCollins, 2003.
- Escape from the CIA: How the CIA Won and Lost the Most Important KGB Spy Ever To Defect to the U.S. New York: Pocket Books, 1991.
- Spy vs. Spy: Stalking Soviet Spies in America. New York: Scribner's, 1988.
- Family Treason: The Walker Spy Case. Briar Cliff Manor, NY: Stein & Day, 1986.
- Philby: The Life and Views of the KGB Master Spy. London: A. Deutsch, 1988.
- The Falcon and the Snowman. A True Story of Friendship and Espionage. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1979.
- The Flight of the Falcon. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1983.
- Killer Spy: The Inside Story of the FBI’s Pursuit and Capture of Aldrich Ames, America’s Deadliest Spy. New York: Warner Books, 1995.
- Wilderness of Mirrors. Harper & Row, 1980.
- My Five Cambridge Friends: Burgess, Maclean, Philby, Blunt and Cairncross by Their KGB Controller. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1994.
- Red Spy Queen: A Biography of Elizabeth Bentley. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2002.
- The Penkovsky Papers. Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, 1965.
- My Silent War: The Soviet Master Spy’s Own Story. New York: Grove Press, 1968.
- Treason: How a Russian Spy Led an American Journalist to a U.S. Double Agent. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2002.
- The Pollard Case Revisited. New York: The American Jewish Committee, Institute of Human Relations, 1992.
- The Spy Who Saved the World: How a Soviet Colonel Changed the Course of the Cold War. New York: C. Scribner’s Sons; Toronto: Maxwell Macmillan Canada; New York: Maxwell Macmillan International, 1992.
- Into the Mirror: The Life of Master Spy Robert P. Hanssen. New York: Harper Collins, 2002.
- The Spy Next Door: The Extraordinary Secret Life of Robert Philip Hanssen, the Most Damaging FBI Agent in U.S. History. Boston: Little, Brown, 2002.
- My Life as a Spy: One of America’s Most Notorious Spies Finally Tells His Story. Amherst: Prometheus Books, 2008.
- Betrayal: The Story of Aldrich Ames, an American Spy. New York: Random House, 1995.
- A Secret Life: The Polish Office, His Covert Mission, and the Price He Paid to Save His Country. New York: Public Affairs, 2004.
- The Illegals: The Double Lives of the Cold War's Most Secret Agents. London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1993.
- The Crown Jewels: The British Secrets at the Heart of the KGB Archives. London: HarperCollins, 1998.
- Nightmover: How Aldrich Ames sold the CIA to the KGB for $4.6 Million. New York: Harper Collins, 1995.
- Molehunt: The Secret Search for Traitors That Shattered the CIA. Random House, Inc., 1992.
- Spy: The Inside Story of How the FBI's Robert Hanssen Betrayed America. New York: Random House, 2002.
- The Bureau and the Mole: The Unmasking of Robert Philip Hanssen, The Most Dangerous Double Agent in FBI History. . New York: Atlantic Monthly Press, 2002.
- The Man from Moscow: The Story of Wynne and Penkovsky. London: Hutchinson, 1967.
National Security Agency
- The Secret Sentry: The Untold History of the National Security Agency. New York: Bloomsbury Press, 2009.
- The Puzzle Palace: A Report on America’s Most Secret Agency. New York: Penguin, 1983.
- The Shadow Factory: The Ultra-Secret NSA from 9/11 to the Eavesdropping on America. New York: Doubleday, 2008.
- Body of Secrets: Anatomy of the Ultra-Secret National Security Agency. New York: Anchor Books, 2002.
Naval Intelligence
- The Office of Naval Intelligence: The Birth of America’s First Intelligence Agency, 1865-1918. Annapolis: Naval Institute Press, 1979.
- Conflict of Duty: The U.S. Navy’s Intelligence Dilemma, 1919-1945. Annapolis: Naval Institute Press, 1983.
- The Admirals’ Advantage: U.S. Navy Operational Intelligence in World War II and the Cold War. Annapolis: Naval Institute Press, 2005.
- Blind Man’s Bluff: The Untold Story of American Submarine Espionage. New York: Public Affairs, 1998.
Norway
- The Norwegian Intelligence Service. Portland: Frank Cass, 1999.
Office of Strategic Services
- Operation Jedburgh: D-Day and America’s First Shadow War. New York: Viking, 2006.
- The Secret War Against Hitler. New York: Regnery Gateway, 1988.
- Spies and Saboteurs: Anglo-American Collaboration and Rivalry in Human Intelligence Collection and Special Operations, 1940-1945. New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1999.
- Foreign Intelligence: Research and Analysis in the Office of Strategic Services, 1942-1945. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1989.
- The Shadow War Against Hitler: The Covert Operations of America's Wartime Secret Intelligence Service. New York: Columbia University Press, 2003.
- Sisterhood of Spies: The Women of the OSS. Annapolis, MD: Naval Institute Press, 1998.
- Piercing the Reich: The Penetration of Nazi Germany by American Secret Agents during World War II. New York: Viking, 1979.
- From Hitler's Doorstep: The Wartime Intelligence Reports of Allen Dulles, 1942-1945. University Park, PA: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1996.
- The Shadow Warriors: O.S.S. and the Origins of the C.I.A. New York: Basic Books, 1983.
- OSS: The Secret History of America's First Central Intelligence Agency. Berkeley: University of California, 1972.
- Wild Bill and Intrepid: Bill Donovan, Bill Stephenson, and the Origin of CIA. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1996.
- Cloak & Gown: Scholars in the Secret War, 1939-1961. William Morrow & Co., Inc., 1987.
Overhead Imagery - General
- From Balloons to Blackbirds: Reconnaissance, Surveillance, and Imagery Intelligence: How It Evolved. McLean, VA: Association of Former Intelligence Officers, 1993.
- Eyes in the Sky: Eisenhower, the CIA, and Cold War Aerial Espionage. Annapolis: Naval Institute Press, 2010.
- Shooting the Front: Allied Aerial Reconnaissance and Photographic Interpretation on the Western Front—World War I. Washington: National Defense Intelligence College, 2006.
- Spy Flights of the Cold War. Gloucestershire: A. Sutton, 1996.
- The CIA and the U-2 Program, 1954-1974. Washington, D.C.: Central Intelligence Agency, Center for the Study of Intelligence, 1998.
- The Corona Project: America's First Spy Satellites. Annapolis, MD: Naval Institute Press, 1997.
- The Eye of Intelligence. London: W. Kimber, 1983.
Overhead Imagery - Pigeons
- Cher Ami, the Story of a Carrier Pigeon. Boston, Little, Brown, and Co., 1934.
Overhead Imagery - U-2
- MAYDAY: Eisenhower, Khrushchev, and the U-2 Affair. New York: Harper & Row, 1986.
- 50 Years of the U-2: The Complete History of the “Dragon Lady". Atglen: Schiffer Military History, 2005.
- Operation Overflight: The U-2 Spy Pilot Tells His Story for the First Time. New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1970.
Soviet Union/Russia
- The Sword and the Shield: The Mitrokhin Archive and the Secret History of the KGB. New York: Basic Books, 1999.
- The World Was Going Our Way: The KGB and the Battle for the Third World. New York: Basic Books, 2005.
- Handbook for Spies. London: Muse um Press, 1949.
- Soviet Military Intelligence in War. Portland: Frank Cass, 1990.
- Comrade Kryuchkov’s Instructions: Top Secret Files on KGB Foreign Operations, 1975-1985. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1993.
- More ‘Instructions from the Centre’: Top Secret Files on KGB Global Operations, 1975-1985. Portland: Frank Cass, 1992.
- Codeword: Direktor: The Story of the Maroon Orchestra. New York: Coward, McCann, & Geoghegan, 1971.
- The First Directorate. New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1994.
- The Rote Kapelle. Lanham, MD: University Publications of America, 1979.
- Hitler's Traitor. Novato, CA: Presidio, 2000.
- Beria: Stalin’s First Lieutenant. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1993.
- Spies without Cloaks: The KGB’s Successors. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1996.
- What Stalin Knew: The Enigma of Barbarossa. New Haven & London: Yale University Press, 2005.
- Operation Lucy: Most Secret Spy Ring of the Second World War. New York: Coward, McCann & Gheoghegan, 1981.
- The Maroon Orchestra: Soviet Spy Network Inside Nazi Germany. London: Arms & Armour Press, 1995.
- The Great Game: Memoirs of the Spy Hitler Couldn't Silence. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1977.
- The Rote Kapelle: The CIA's History of Soviet Intelligence and Espionage Networks in Western Europe, 1936-1945. Washington, DC: University Publications of America, Inc., 1979.
- Stalin's Spy: Richard Sorge and the Tokyo Espionage Ring. London: Tauris, 1996.
The Dreyfus Affair
- The Affair: The Case of Alfred Dreyfus, translated from the French by Jeffrey Mehlman. Birmingham, AL: Notable Trials Library, 1989.
- The Dreyfus Affair. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 2002.
- More Than A Trial: The Struggle Over Captain Dreyfus. New York: Free Press, 1980.
- Prisoners of Honor: The Dreyfus Affair. New York: Morrow, 1973.
- J'Accuse. Paris: Editions Mille et Une Nuits, 1994.
United Kingdom
- GCHQ: The Uncensored Story of Britain’s Most Secret Intelligence Agency. London: Harper Press, 2010.
- Her Majesty’s Secret Service: The Making of the British Intelligence Community. New York: Viking, 1986.
- Defend the Realm: The Authorized History of MI5. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2009.
- MI6 and the Machinery of Spying. Portland, Frank Cass, 2004.
- MI6: Inside the Covert World of Her Majesty’s Secret Intelligence Service. New York: Free Press, 2000.
- British Intelligence in the Second World War, Abridged Edition. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2003.
- The Secret History of MI6, 1909-1949. New York: Penguin, 2010.
- British Security Coordination: The Secret History of British Intelligence in the America’s, 1940-1945. New York: Fromm International, 1999.
Venona and Cold War Espionage in the United States
- VENONA: Soviet Espionage and the American Response, 1939-1957. Washington, DC: National Security Agency/Central Intelligence Agency, 1996.
- The Venona Secrets: The Soviet Union's World War II Espionage Campaign against the United States and How America Fought Back: A Story of Espionage, Counterespionage, and Betrayal. New York: Basic Books, 1999.
- Venona: Decoding Soviet Espionage in America. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1999.
- Spies: The Rise and Fall of the KGB in America. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2009.
- The FBI-KGB War: A Special Agent's Story. New York: Random House, 1986.
- The Venona Secrets: Exposing Soviet Espionage and America's Traitors. Washington, DC: Regnery, 2000.
- Engineering Communism: How Two Americans Spied for Stalin and Founded the Soviet Silicon Valley. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2005.
- The Haunted Wood: Soviet Espionage in America -- the Stalin Era. New York: Random House, 1999.
- Venona: The Greatest Secret of the Cold War. London: Harper Collins, 1999.
World War I
- Spies of the Kaiser: German Covert Operations in Great Britain during the First World War Era. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2004.
- Like Hidden Fire: The Plot to Bring Down the British Empire. New York: Kodansha International, 1994.
- The Price of Vigilance. Chicago: Rand McNally, 1969.
- The Fourth Horseman: One Man’s Secret Campaign to Fight the Great War in America. New York: Public Affairs, 2006.
- Military Intelligence and the Arab Revolt: The First Modern Intelligence War. London: Routledge, 2007.
- Spies of the First World War: Under Cover for King and Kaiser. Kew: The National Archives, 2010.
- The German Secret Service. London: S. Paul, 1924.
World War II - Atomic Spies
- Bombshell: The Secret Story of America's Unknown Atomic Spy Conspiracy. Random House Inc., 1997.
- Secret Agents: The Rosenberg Case, McCarthyism, & Fifties America. Routledge, 1995.
- The Unquiet Death of Julius & Ethel Rosenberg. Lawrence Hill & Company, 1975.
- Manhattan Project: The Untold Story of the Making of the Atomic Bomb. Bantam Book, 1968.
- Atomic Spaces: Living on the Manhattan Project. University of Illinois Press, 1997.
- The Invisible Harry Gold: The Man who Gave the Soviets the Atom Bomb. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2010.
- The Atom Bomb Spies. Hamish Hamilton, 1980.
- Manhattan: The Army and the Atomic Bomb. . U.S. Army Center of Military History, 1985.
- We Are Your Sons: The Legacy of Ethel & Julius Rosenberg. Houghton Mifflin Co., 1975.
- The Traitors. Hamish Hamilton, 1952.
- Ethel Rosenberg: Beyond the Myths. Temple University Press, 1988.
- The Atom Spies. G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1952.
- The Rosenberg File: A Search For the Truth. Holt, Rinehart & Winston, 1983.
- Dark Sun. Simon and Schuster, 1995.
- The Making of the Atomic Bomb. Simon and Schuster, 1986.
- Invitation to an Inquest: A New Look At the Rosenberg-Sobell Case. . Doubleday & Co. Inc., 1965.
- On Doing Time: The Co-Defendant With Julius & Ethel Rosenberg Gives His Account Of That Famous Trial & His Imprisonment For 2 Decades. Macmillan Publishing Co., 1974..
- Klaus Fuchs, Atom Spy. Harvard University Press, 1987.
World War II - Deception Operations
- D-Day: June 6, 1944: The Climactic Battle of World War II. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1994.
- Hoodwinking Hitler: The Normandy Deception. Westport, CT: Praeger/Greenwood, 1993.
- Bodyguard of Lies. London: W.H. Allen, 1975.
- Soviet Military Deception in the Second World War. Totowa: Frank Cass, 1989.
- Fortitude: The D-Day Deception Campaign. New York: Overlook, 2000.
- The Deceivers: Allied Military Deception in the Second World War. New York: Scribner, 2004.
- Strategic Deception in the Second World War. New York: W. W. Norton, 1996.
- Operation Mincemeat : How a Dead Man and a Bizarre Plan Fooled the Nazis and Assured an Allied Victory. New York: Harmony Books, 2010.
- The Double-Cross System in the War of 1939-1945. New Haven & London: Yale University Press, 1972.
- The Man Who Never Was. New York: Oxford University Press, 1996.
- Spy/Counterspy: The Autobiography of Dusko Popov. New York: Grosset & Dunlap, 1974.
- Garbo: The Personal Story of the Most Successful Double Agent in World War II. New York: Random House, 1986.
- Deathly Deception: The Real Story of Operation Mincemeat. New York: Oxford University Press, 2010.
- Stalin’s Secret War: Soviet Counterintelligence Against the Nazi.
World War II - Pearl Harbor
- Pearl Harbor: Final Judgment. New York: Crown Publishing, 1992.
- Days of Infamy: MacArthur, Roosevelt, Churchill--The Shocking Truth Revealed: How Their Secret Deals and Strategic Blunders Caused Disasters at Pearl Harbor and the Philippines. New York: Pocket Books, 1994.
- At Dawn We Slept: The Untold Story of Pearl Harbor. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1981.
- Pearl Harbor: The Verdict of History. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1986.
- Pearl Harbor: Warning and Decision. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 1962.
World War II - Tokyo Rose
- The Hunt for “Tokyo Rose.”. New York: Madison Books, 1993.
