Reviewed in this edition
Current Topics
The CIA in Hollywood: How the Agency Shapes Film and Television, by Tricia Jenkins.
General
Spy the Lie: Former CIA Officers Teach You How To Detect Deception, by Philip Houston, Michael Floyd, and Susan Carnicero, with Don Tennant.
US Historical
Circle of Treason: A CIA Account of Traitor Aldrich Ames and the Men He Betrayed, by Sandra Grimes and Jeanne Vertefeuille.
Find, Fix, Finish: Inside the Counterterrorism Campaigns that Killed Bin Laden and Devastated alQaeda, by Aki Peritz and Eric Rosenbach.
Getting To Know The President: Intelligence Briefings of Presidential Candidates, 1952–2004, by John L. Helgerson.
Pinkerton’s War: The Civil War’s Greatest Spy and the Birth of the U. S. Secret Service, by Jay Bonansinga.
Privileged and Confidential: The Secret History of the President’s Intelligence Advisory Board, by Kenneth Michael Absher, Michael C. Desch, and Roman Popadiuk.
The Twilight War: The Secret History of America’s Thirty-Year Conflict With Iran, by David Crist.
Memoir
Good-bye Dracula!: The Story of a Transylvanian Defector, by Traian Nicola.
Intelligence Abroad—Current
Gideon’s Spies: The Secret History of the Mossad, Second Edition, by Gordon Thomas.
Indian Intelligence: Missing In Action, edited by M.K. Singh.
Spies Against Armageddon: Inside Israel’s Secret Wars, by Dan Raviv and Yossi Melman.
Storming the World Stage: The Story of Lashkar-e-Taiba, by Stephen Tankel.
Intelligence Abroad—Historical
Agent Garbo: The Brilliant, Eccentric Secret Agent Who Tricked Hitler and Saved D-Day, by Stephan Talty.
Guy Burgess: Revolutionary in an Old School Tie, by Michael Holzman.
The Queen’s Agent: Francis Walsingham at the Court of Elizabeth I, by John Cooper.
The Spy Who Loved: The Secrets and Lives of Christine Granville, Britain’s First Female Special Agent of World War II, by Clare Mulley.
The Young Kim Philby: Soviet Spy & British Intelligence Officer, by Edward Harrison.