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Non Fiction Spy Games May 2020
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A spy among friends : Kim Philby and the great betrayal
by Ben Macintyre
The best-selling author of Operation Mincemeat presents a definitive portrait of the notorious 20th-century spy that discusses his rise in MI6, high-profile intelligence friendships and 20-year espionage operation that culminated in his 1963 defection to Moscow. 150,000 first printing
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Bonhoeffer
by Eric Metaxas
Traces the life of the Christian theologian whose faith led him to speak out against Nazism and join in unsuccessful attempts to assassinate Hitler, discussing the personalities and experiences that shaped him and detailing his role in the religious resistance to Nazism.
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Double cross
by 1963- Macintyre, Ben
Traces the sophisticated D-Day operation through which extraordinary spies deceived the Nazis about the location of the Allied attack, profiling the successful Double Cross System and the remarkable individuals who used the program to save thousands of lives.
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Life undercover
by Amaryllis Fox
A chronicle of an extraordinary life, and of one woman|s courage and passion, follows the author as she spends 10 years in the most elite clandestine ops unit of the CIA, hunting down the world|s most dangerous terrorist while marrying and becoming a mother.
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The billion dollar spy
by David E. (David Emanuel) Hoffman
The Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Dead Hand presents the story of a valuable CIA spy in the Soviet Union while revealing the espionage contributions of the agency's Moscow station in the final years of the Cold War.
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The first conspiracy
by Brad Meltzer
The author of The Inner Circle presents the lesser-known story of an assassination attempt against pre-Revolutionary War George Washington by some of his own bodyguards, exploring how the plot catalyzed the creations of the CIA and FBI.
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The triple agent
by Joby Warrick
A Pulitzer Prize-winning intelligence reporter presents a narrative account of a mysterious Jordanian agent that describes how he infiltrated both al-Qaeda and the CIA before killing himself and seven CIA operatives in a suicide bombing, an event that revealed sobering agency weaknesses.
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The unexpected spy
by Tracy Walder
Offers a riveting account of a young woman who went straight from her college sorority to the CIA, where she hunted terrorists and weapons of mass destruction.
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The woman who smashed codes
by Jason Fagone
Describes the true story of Elizebeth Smith, a Shakespeare expert, who met and married a groundbreaking cryptologist and worked with him to discover and expose Nazi spy rings in South America by cracking multiple versions of the Enigma machine.
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