Step aside, 007, there are some new spy books in town. Each of these picks would make for a great spy thriller on the big screen.

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1. As the commander of an outmatched Continental Army, George Washington relied on his spies to anticipate enemy movements and thereby even the odds with the British. The letters Alexander Rose quotes ...

Interested in espionage fiction, but don’t know where to start? Let our expert guide you. By David McCloskey David McCloskey, the author of “Damascus Station,” “Moscow X” and “The Seventh Floor,” is ...

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“KIM”, PUBLISHED in 1901, may be the first spy novel. Rudyard Kipling recounts the adventures of an orphan who becomes a player in the Great Game, Britain’s competition with Russia in the 19th century ...

When you make a purchase using links on our site, The Week may earn a commission. All reviews are written independently by our editorial team. The book that started the military technothriller genre.

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A fascinating new study, “Book and Dagger” by the historian Elyse Graham, follows Donovan into the unlikely corridors of university faculties as he searched for talent. The connection between the ...

Early one morning last week FBI agents rapped sharply on the doors of five Detroit houses, made five arrests. Agents in New York boarded a freighter, made a sixth. Four of the prisoners—a countess, a ...