secret service

This astonishing new book tells the story of how a handful of CIA agents led the initial post-September 11 charge against al Qaeda and its Taliban patrons, far outstripping the agency's lumbering competitor, the U.S. military.

A biography of the first trained female agent who the Special Operations Executive put behind enemy lines in World War II.

Tapped by FDR to assist the Allies' efforts to secure France and build an atomic bomb, OSS spy chief Wild Bill Donovan and top agent Dick Canidy coordinate a sabotage mission in Germany while countering a mole who is leaking Manhattan Project secrets to the Soviets.

Examines the life of Fritz Kolbe, a member of the German foreign ministry who became an important spy for the U.S. during World War II, and looks at government documents and personal archives to recount the final years of the war and the workings of the Third Reich.