An acclaimed historian tells, for the first time, the full story of the conspiracy between the Germans and the Turks to unleash a Muslim holy war against the British in India and the Russians in the Caucasus. Drawing on recently opened intelligence files and rare personal accounts, Peter Hopkirk skillfully reconstructs the Kaiser's bold plan and describes the exploits of the secret agents on both sides-disguised variously as archaeologists, traders, and circus performers-as they sought to foment or foil the uprising and determine the outcome of World War I.

    Peopled with vivid characters, brilliantly displaying Forsyth's incomparable, knowledge of intelligence operations and tradecraft, moving back and forth between Washington and London, Baghdad and Kuwait, desert vastnesses and city bazaars, this breathtaking novel is an utterly convincing story of what may actually have happened behind the headlines.

    

    Even so, he grew increasingly disillusioned with the Soviet system. In 1990, he went public, exposing the intelligence agency's shadowy methods. Revised and updated in the light of the KGB's enduring presence in Russian politics, Spymaster is Kalugin's impressively illuminating memoir of the final years of the Soviet Union.

    A former Israeli agent relates the story of his career as a double agent and his disruption of shocking Mossad assassination plans.

    Paulette, Vi and Jenny all volunteers, all parachuted in to the Dordogne in 1942, working for Harry Bailey's SOE network. The secretive life they lead, isolated behind enemy lines, the danger and violence they have to face, will change them all.

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    A different kind of tour guide, to 136 sites in London associated with spies and spycatchers in the last century of English history.

    This department was responsible for kidnapping, assassination, sabotage, and guerrilla warfare during World War II, it also set up illegal networks in the United States and Western Europe, and, most crucially, carried out atomic espionage in the United States, Great Britain, and Canada. Sudoplatov served the KGB for over fifty years, at one point controlling more than twenty thousand guerrillas, moles, and spies. But his involvement with the most nefarious Soviet activities-- and the rulers who ordered them-- made Sudoplatov an unwanted witness, and he was arrested in 1953 after Beria's fall. Despite torture and solitary confinement he refused to "confess", disavowing any criminal actions. He spent fifteen years in prison, then struggled two decades more for rehabilitation. "Special Tasks" is an astonishing memoir and a singular historical document of a man who knew and did too much for the Soviet empire.

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    In her fourth book, Aline Romanones, American beauty, Spanish socialite, devoted mother, and spy, makes her first foray into the world of fiction. Drawing on some of her most frightening moments as an undercover agent, as well as her unique channels of information, the Countess crafts a novel of stunning suspense. When a handsome young man calls on business one day for Aline a pleasant and casual acquaintanceship begins. Yet the flowers she receives suggest he has something different in mind. Only afterward, when it is too late to change the course of events, will she learn the truth - that her charming new friend is actually the notorious terrorist known as Carlos the Jackal. A deadly game of cat-and-mouse ensues, taking Aline through a host of lavish settings in Bavaria, Paris, and Marbella, where friends can no longer be trusted and she will need all her skills as a former OSS operative to get out alive.

    David Harber, author of the Anarchist Arsenal series, describes techniques and safety procedures involved in manufacturing all types of improvised explosives as well as reliable electric detonators, then reveals the secrets of constructing 10 different initiation delays and their pipe-bomb housings. The test is rounded out with historical anecdotes from the annals of such diverse guerillas as the Irish Republican Army, the unsuccessful assassins of Adolf Hitler and militant American college students in the early 1970s.

     Post Ames, the old security of a superpower confrontation had vanished and with the new world order came a search for a new identity and purpose for the global intelligence community. At stake was a $50 billion international industry employing a million people. With unrivalled access to senior intelligence figures in America, Britain and Russia, from the CIA, SIS and SVR, James Adams reveals how the world of secret agencies began to evolve. In an increasingly turbulent and frightening world of terrorism, chemical warfare and economic espionage, how do secret services conduct their business when it is dictated by uncertain and destabilising political dialogue as well as internal bureaucracy and duplication of military intelligence? He examines security forces and secret agencies uncovering information vital to national security in a modern and secular world, in the midst of pressure for radical reform and greater transparency when the need for secrecy is greater than ever. Praise for the author: “James Adams goes in at the top. When he wants to write about the KGB (now called the SVR) he talks to Primakov, its chief. He sits at a table with the heads of MI5 and MI6 and interviews the head of the CIA. The result is a comprehensive guide to the changing bureaucracies of espionage, thoughtful and provocative.” - Daily Telegraph “Its breadth is vast and conclusions unnerving. It is a benchmark for intelligence analysis in the aftermath of the Cold war.” - Yorkshire Post “Fascinating … valuable’ - Sunday Times “Partly de-mythologizing and partly revelatory … As reliable a general review of the world’s larger intelligence agencies as you can get.” - T.L.S. James Adams was born in Newcastle in 1951 and educated at Harrow and Neuchatel University. He was trained as a journalist on the Evening Chronicle, Newcastle, and after a period working in Africa and the USA became chief reporter and then news editor on 8 Days, a magazine specialising in Middle East Affairs. He has held various positions with The Sunday Times including Defence Correspondent. He is married and lives in London.

    In 1930, Stalin spy Andrei Aarons moved to New York--the beginning of 40 years as the Soviets' most successful agent--and later went on to become an adviser to six American presidents.