Spies, Spooks, Assassins, and Other Shadowy Characters

This list offers a selection of novels, nonfiction books, and documentaries and feature films dealing with spies, espionage, or assassins. It is not comprehensive. If what you are looking for is not here, or if you are interested in other topics, please Ask Readers Services!

FICTION:

The Spirit of Liberty, Ted Allbeury

Pryde and the Infernal Device: A Matthew Pryde Adventure, Malcom Archibald

Deliver Us from Evil, David Baldacci

The Silent Man, Alex Berenson*

Danger Close, William G. [Jerry] Boykin

The Thirty-Nine Steps, John Buchan

Last Call for Blackford Oakes, William F. Buckley, Jr.

Johnny One-Eye: A Tale of the American Revolution, Jerome Charyn

Most Eagerly Yours: Her Majesty’s Secret Servants, Allison Chase

Stephen Coonts’ Deep Black: Sea of Terror, Stephen Coonts*

Typhoon, Charles Cumming*

Eye of the Archangel: A Mallory and Morse Novel of Espionage, Forrest DeVoe, Jr.

Silesian Station, David Downing*

Moscow Sting, Alex Dryden*

Written on Your Skin, Meredith Duran

Pandora’s Box, Clive Egleton

Rain Fall, Barry Eisler*

The Arms Maker of Berlin, Dan Fesperman*

Quantum of Solace: 007, the Complete James Bond Short Stories, Ian Fleming*

Eye of the Needle, Ken Follett*

Red Star Rising, Brian Freemantle*

Spies of the Balkans, Alan Furst*

The Tehran Conviction, Tom Gabbay

Spook Country, William Gibson

The Swiss Courier, Tricia Goyer

From Hell with Love: A Secret Histories Novel, Simon R. Green*

Our Man in Havana, Graham Greene*

The Honor of Spies, W.E.B. Griffin*

The Cabal, David Hagberg*

Enemies Among Us: A Thriller, Bob Hamer

The Wolf at the Door, Jack Higgins*

The Increment, David Ignatius*

Goodbye Mexico, Phillip Jennings

Lulu in Marrakech, Diane Johnson

The Mission Song, John le Carré*

Robert Ludlum’s The Bourne Objective: A New Jason Bourne Novel, Eric Lustbader*

The Book of Spies, Gayle Lynds

Girl in a Box, Sujata Massey

Southern Seahawk: A Novel of the Civil War at Sea, Randall S. Peffer

The Bell Ringers, Henry Porter*

Blasphemy, Douglas J. Preston

Rules of Betrayal, Christopher Reich*

Dead Line, Stella Rimington*

The Rembrandt Affair, Daniel Silva*

Assegai, Wilbur A. Smith

The Nearest Exit, Olen Steinhauer*

The Skorpion Directive, David Stone*

Takedown: A Thriller, Brad Thor

*one of a number of “spy” novels by this author

NONFICTION:

Triple Cross: Bin Laden's Spy in America [DVD]  303.625 TRI

The Spy Within: Larry Chin and China’s Penetration of the CIA, Tod Hoffman  327.12 HOF

Our Man in Mexico: Winston Scott and the Hidden History of the CIA, Jefferson Morley  327.12 MOR

Spies [DVD]  327.12 SPI

Spy Technology [DVD]  327.12 SPY

Spy Handler: Memoir of a KGB Officer: The True Story of the Man Who Recruited Robert Hanssen and Aldrich Ames, Victor Cherkashin  327.1247 CHE

Spies: The Rise and Fall of the KGB in America, John Earl Haynes  327.1247 HAY

The Lost Spy: An American in Stalin’s Secret Service, Andrew Meier  327.1247 MEI

The Bureau and the Mole: The Unmasking of Robert Philip Hanssen, the Most Dangerous Double Agent in FBI History, David A. Vise  327.1247 VIS

Comrade J: The Untold Secrets of Russia’s Master Spy in America After the End of the Cold War, Pete Earley  327.1247092 EAR

Astrospies [DVD]  327.1273 AST

The Reluctant Spy: My Secret Life in the CIA’s War on Terror, John Kiriakou  327.1273 KIR

An Artist in Treason: The Extraordinary Double Life of General James Wilkinson, Andro Linklater  355 LIN

The Encyclopedia of World War II Spies, Peter Kross  355.3432 KRO

Donnie Brasco: Unfinished Business: Shocking Declassified Details from the FBI’s Greatest Undercover Operation and a Bloody Timeline of the Fall of the Mafia,
Joseph D. Pistone  364.1 PIS

Heir To an Execution: A Granddaughter's Story [DVD]  364.131 HEI

Capturing Jonathan Pollard: How One of the Most Notorious Spies in American History Was Brought to Justice, Ronald J. Olive  364.131 OLI

Umbrella Assassin [DVD]  364.1524 UMB

Super Spy, Matt Kindt  741.5 KIN

The Mystery of Olga Chekhova, Antony Beevor  792.028092 BEE

Christopher Marlowe: Poet & Spy, Park Honan  822.3 HON

The Shakespeare Conspiracy [DVD]  822.33 A

Undercover Washington: Where Famous Spies Lived, Worked, and Loved, Pamela Kessler  917.53 KES

The Fourth Horseman: One Man’s Secret Mission To Wage the Great War in America, Robert L. Koenig  940.485 KOE

Papa Spy: Love, Faith, and Betrayal in Wartime Spain, Jimmy Burns  940.5346 BUR

My Father’s Secret War: A Memoir, Lucinda Franks  940.5486 FRA

Hornet’s Sting: The Amazing Untold Story of World War II Spy Thomas Sneum, Mark Ryan  940.5486 RYA

The Hunt for Nazi Spies: Fighting Espionage in Vichy France, Simon Kitson  940.548644 KIT

The Saboteurs: The Nazi Raid on America, Michael Dobbs  940.548743 DOB

Agent 146: The True Story of a Nazi Spy in America, Erich Gimpel  940.548743 GIM

Nazi Spies in America [DVD]  940.548743 NAZ

The Eitingons: A Twentieth-Century Story, Mary-Kay Wilmers  947.0842 WIL

Red Files: Secrets of the Russian Archives Revealed [DVD]  947.085 RED

The Spy Who Loved Us: The Vietnam War and Pham Xuan An’s Dangerous Game, Thomas A. Bass  959.70438 BAS

Perfect Spy: The Incredible Double Life of Pham Xuan An, Time Magazine Reporter and Vietnamese Communist Agent, Larry Berman  959.70438 BER

Washington’s Spies: The Story of America’s First Spy Ring, Alexander Rose  973.385 ROS

American Spy: My Secret History in the CIA, Watergate, and Beyond, E. Howard Hunt  973.924092 HUN

Wild Rose: Rose O’Neale Greenhow, Civil War Spy, Ann Blackman  B GREENHOW

Femme Fatale: Love, Lies, and the Unknown Life of Mata Hari, Pat Shipman  B MATA HARI

Encyclopedia of Cold War Espionage, Spies, and Secret Operations, Richard C.S. Trahair  REF 327.1203 TRA

DVD MOVIES & TELEVISION SERIES:

Alias  DVD ALI (SET)+
Body of Lies  DVD BOD
Breach  DVD BRE
Burn Notice  DVD BUR (SET)+
Chuck  DVD CHU (SET)
Diamonds Are Forever  DVD DIA
Die Another Day  DVD DIE
Double Identity  DVD DOU
The Equalizer  DVD EQU (SET)+
For Your Eyes Only  DVD FOR
From Russia with Love  DVD FRO
G-Force  DVD G
Get Smart, Again!  DVD GET
Get Smart's Bruce And Lloyd: Out Of Control  DVD GET
GoldenEye  DVD GOL
Goldfinger  DVD GOL
Gotcha!  DVD GOT
Infernal Affairs 3  DVD INF
Licence To Kill  DVD LIC
Live and Let Die  DVD LIV
The Living Daylights  DVD LIV
The Man with the Golden Gun  DVD MAN
MI-5  DVD MI (SET)+
Mission: Impossible  DVD MIS (SET)+
Mission: Impossible II  DVD MIS
Mission: Impossible III  DVD MIS
Night Train to Munich  DVD NIG
North by Northwest  DVD NOR
Ian Fleming's On Her Majesty's Secret Service  DVD ON
Our Man Flint  DVD OUR
A Perfect Spy  DVD PER (SET)
Spy Game  DVD SPY
The Spy Who Loved Me  DVD SPY
The 39 Steps  DVD THI
3 Days of the Condor  DVD THR
Thunderball  DVD THU
The Tuxedo  DVD TUX
A View to a Kill  DVD VIE
The World Is Not Enough  DVD WOR
You Only Live Twice  DVD YOU

+Television series with multiple DVDs per set, in some cases there are multiple seasons.

jhl 8/2010