Forty-eight spy biographies and autobiographies (books included in the analysis marked with asterisk).
| Author . | . | Title . | Spy name . | Type of spy . | Historical period . | Country . | Biography or autobiography . |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Alan S. Cowell | 2008 | The Terminal Spy: A True Story of Espionage, Betrayal and Murder | Alexander Litvinenko | Political | Contemporary | Russia/UK | Biography |
| Aleksandr Orlov | 2004 | The March of Time: Reminiscences | Aleksandr Orlov | Political | WWI | Russia | Autobiography |
| Antony Beevor | 2004 | The Mystery of Olga Chekhova | Olga Chekhova | Political | Cold War | Soviet Union | Biography |
| Anthony Masters | 1984 | The Man Who Was M: The Life of Maxwell Knight | Maxwell Knight | Political | WWII | UK | Biography |
| Barrie Penrose | 1988 | Conspiracy of Silence: The Secret Life of Anthony Blunt | Anthony Blunt | Political | Cold War | UK/Soviet Union | Biography |
| *Ben MacIntyre | 2015 | A Spy Among Friends: Kim Philby and the Great Betrayal | Kim Philby | Political | Cold War | UK/Soviet Union | Biography |
| *Ben MacIntyre | 2019 | The Spy and the Traitor: The greatest Espionage Story of the Cold War | Oleg Antonyevich Gordievsky | Political | Cold War | UK/Soviet Union | Biography |
| *Ben Macintyre | 2009 | Agent Zigzag: The True Wartime Story of Eddie Chapman: Lover, Betrayer, Hero, Spy | Eddie Chapman | Political | WWII | UK/Germany | Biography |
| Edward Harrison | 2012 | The Young Kim Philby: Soviet Spy and British Intelligence Officer | Kim Philby | Political | Cold War | UK/Soviet Union | Biography |
| Edward Gazur | 2001 | Secret Assignment:The FBI’s KGB General | Edward Gazur | Political | Cold War | USA/Soviet Union | Autobiography |
| Emil Draitser | 2011 | Stalin’s Romeo Spy: The Remarkable Rise and Fall of the KGB’s Most Daring Operative | Bystroletov | Political | Cold War | Soviet Union | Biography |
| *G. Edward White | 2004 | Alger Hiss’s Looking-glass Wars: The Covert Life of a Soviet Spy | Alger Hiss | Political | Cold War | USA/Soviet Union | Biography |
| Gary Kern | 2004 | A Death in Washington: Walter G. Krivitsky and the Stalin Terror | Walter Krivitsky | Political | WWII/Cold War | Soviet Union/USA | Biography |
| Genrikh Aviėzerovich Borovik | 1994 | The Philby Files: The Secret Life of Master Spy Kim Philby | Kim Philby | Political | Cold War | UK/Soviet Union | Biography |
| George Tenet | 2007 | At the Center of the Storm: My Years at the CIA | George Tenet | Political | Cold War | USA | Autobiography |
| Guy Liddel (ed. Nigel West) | 2005 | The Guy Liddell Diaries: MI5’s Director of Counter-Espionage in World War II | Guy Liddell | Political | WWII | UK/Germany | Autobiography |
| Haggai Eshed | 1997 | Reuven Shiloah: The Man behind the Mossad: Secret Diplomacy in the Creation of Israel | Reuven Shiloah | Political | 20th Century | Israel | Biography |
| *Jefferson Morley | 2017 | The Ghost: The Secret Life of CIA Spymaster James Jesus Angleton | James Jesus Angleton | Political | Cold War | US | Biography |
| John Costello | 1988 | Mask of Treachery | Anthony Blunt | Political | Cold War | USA/Soviet Union | Biography |
| *John Le Carré | 2016 | The Pigeon Tunnel: Stories from my Life | John Le Carré | Political | Cold War | UK/Soviet Union | Autobiography |
| John Costello and Oleg Tsarev | 1993 | Deadly Illusions | Aleksandr Orlov | Political | Cold War | Soviet Union/USA | Biography |
| Kim Philby | 2003 | My silent war: the autobiography of a spy | Kim Philby | Political | Cold War | USA/Soviet Union | Autobiography |
| Leslie Colitt | 1995 | Spymaster: The Real-life Karla, His Moles, and the East German Secret Police | Markus Wolf | Political | Cold War | East Germany | Biography |
| Martin Sixsmith | 2007 | The Litvinenko file: The True Story of a Death Foretold | Alexander Litvinenko | Political | Contemporary | Russia/UK | Biography |
| Mark Kushnirov | 2015 | Olga Chekhova | Olga Chekhova | Political | Cold War | Soviet Union | Biography |
| Mark Seaman | 2000 | Garbo: The Spy who Saved D-day | Juan Pujol García | Political | WWII | UK/Germany | Biography |
| Michael J. Sulick. | 2012 | Spying in America: Espionage from the Revolutionary War to the Dawn of the Cold War | Various | Political | Various | USA | Biography |
| Miranda Carter | 2001 | Anthony Blunt: His Lives | Anthony Blunt | Political | Cold War | UK/Soviet Union | Biography |
| Nicholas Booth | 2007 | Zigzag: the incredible exploits of Eddie Chapman | Eddie Chapman | Political | WWII | UK/Germany | Biography |
| Nigel West and Madoc Roberts. | 2011 | Snow: The Double Life of a World War II Spy | Arthur Owens | Political | WWII | UK/Germany | Biography |
| Nigel West | 2011 | Operation GARBO: The Personal Story of the Most Successful Spy of World War II | Juan Pujol García | Political | WWII | UK/Germany | Biography |
| Phillip Knightley | 2003 | Philby: The Life and Views of the K.G.B. Masterspy | Kim Philby | Political | Cold War | UK/Soviet Union | Biography |
| R. S. Rose | 2009 | Johnny: A Spy’s Life | Johann Heinrich Amadeus de Graaf | Political | Cold War | UK/Soviet Union | Biography |
| Robert Bruce Lockhart | 1987 | Reilly: The First Man | Sidney Reilly | Political | WWI | UK/Soviet Union | Biography |
| Richard B Spence | 2003 | Trust No One: The Secret World of Sidney Reilly | Sidney Reilly | Political | WWI | UK/Soviet Union | Biography |
| Ralph Carter Elwood | 1977 | Roman Malinovsky, A Life Without a Cause | Roman Malinovsky | Political | WWI | Soviet Union | Biography |
| Russell Miller | 2004 | Codename Tricycle: The True Story of the Second World War’s Most Extraordinary Double Agent | Dusan Popov | Political | WWII | UK/Germany | Biography |
| Sebastian Ritchie | 2004 | Our Man in Yugoslavia: The Story of a Secret Service Operative | Owen Reed | Political | WWII | UK/Yugoslavia | Biography |
| *Stella Rimington | 2002 | Open Secret: The Autobiography of the Former Director-General of MI5 | Stella Rimington | Political | 20th Century | UK | Autobiography |
| *Stephen Grey | 2015 | The New Spymasters: Inside the Modern World of Espionage from the Cold War to Global Terror | Various | Political | Cold War/War on Terror (Al-Qaeda, ISIS) | US/ Soviet Union/Afghanistan | Exposé |
| Tommy Jonason and Simon Olsson | 2011 | Agent Tate: the Wartime Story of Harry Williamson | Harry Williamson | Political | WWII | UK/Germany | Biography |
| Tony Sharp | 2014 | Stalin’s American Spy: Noel Field, Allen Dulles and the East European Show Trials | Noel Field | Political | Cold War | USA/Soviet Union | Biography |
| Vladimir Sakharov | 1981 | High Treason | Vladimir Sakharov | Political | Cold War | Soviet Union | Autobiography |
| Walter Krivitsky | 2000 | In Stalin’s Secret Service | Walter Krivitsky | Political | Cold War | Soviet Union | Autobiography |
| Walter Schellenberg | 2000 | The Labyrinth: Memoirs of Walter Schellenberg, Hitler’s Chief of Counterintelligence | Walter Schellenberg | Political | WWII | Germany | Autobiography |
| *William Stevenson | 2009 | A Man Called Intrepid: The Incredible WWII Narrative of the Hero Whose Spy Network and Secret Diplomacy Changed the Course of History | William Stephenson | Political | WWII | UK/Germany | Biography |
| Whittaker Chambers | 1952 | Witness | Alger Hiss | Political | Cold War | USA | Biography |
| *Yuri Modin, Jean-Charles Deniau and Agnieszka Ziarek | 1994 | My Five Cambridge Friends | Guy Burgess, Donald Maclean, Kim Philby, Anthony Blunt, John Cairncross | Political | Cold War | UK/Soviet Union | Biography |
| Author . | . | Title . | Spy name . | Type of spy . | Historical period . | Country . | Biography or autobiography . |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Alan S. Cowell | 2008 | The Terminal Spy: A True Story of Espionage, Betrayal and Murder | Alexander Litvinenko | Political | Contemporary | Russia/UK | Biography |
| Aleksandr Orlov | 2004 | The March of Time: Reminiscences | Aleksandr Orlov | Political | WWI | Russia | Autobiography |
| Antony Beevor | 2004 | The Mystery of Olga Chekhova | Olga Chekhova | Political | Cold War | Soviet Union | Biography |
| Anthony Masters | 1984 | The Man Who Was M: The Life of Maxwell Knight | Maxwell Knight | Political | WWII | UK | Biography |
| Barrie Penrose | 1988 | Conspiracy of Silence: The Secret Life of Anthony Blunt | Anthony Blunt | Political | Cold War | UK/Soviet Union | Biography |
| *Ben MacIntyre | 2015 | A Spy Among Friends: Kim Philby and the Great Betrayal | Kim Philby | Political | Cold War | UK/Soviet Union | Biography |
| *Ben MacIntyre | 2019 | The Spy and the Traitor: The greatest Espionage Story of the Cold War | Oleg Antonyevich Gordievsky | Political | Cold War | UK/Soviet Union | Biography |
| *Ben Macintyre | 2009 | Agent Zigzag: The True Wartime Story of Eddie Chapman: Lover, Betrayer, Hero, Spy | Eddie Chapman | Political | WWII | UK/Germany | Biography |
| Edward Harrison | 2012 | The Young Kim Philby: Soviet Spy and British Intelligence Officer | Kim Philby | Political | Cold War | UK/Soviet Union | Biography |
| Edward Gazur | 2001 | Secret Assignment:The FBI’s KGB General | Edward Gazur | Political | Cold War | USA/Soviet Union | Autobiography |
| Emil Draitser | 2011 | Stalin’s Romeo Spy: The Remarkable Rise and Fall of the KGB’s Most Daring Operative | Bystroletov | Political | Cold War | Soviet Union | Biography |
| *G. Edward White | 2004 | Alger Hiss’s Looking-glass Wars: The Covert Life of a Soviet Spy | Alger Hiss | Political | Cold War | USA/Soviet Union | Biography |
| Gary Kern | 2004 | A Death in Washington: Walter G. Krivitsky and the Stalin Terror | Walter Krivitsky | Political | WWII/Cold War | Soviet Union/USA | Biography |
| Genrikh Aviėzerovich Borovik | 1994 | The Philby Files: The Secret Life of Master Spy Kim Philby | Kim Philby | Political | Cold War | UK/Soviet Union | Biography |
| George Tenet | 2007 | At the Center of the Storm: My Years at the CIA | George Tenet | Political | Cold War | USA | Autobiography |
| Guy Liddel (ed. Nigel West) | 2005 | The Guy Liddell Diaries: MI5’s Director of Counter-Espionage in World War II | Guy Liddell | Political | WWII | UK/Germany | Autobiography |
| Haggai Eshed | 1997 | Reuven Shiloah: The Man behind the Mossad: Secret Diplomacy in the Creation of Israel | Reuven Shiloah | Political | 20th Century | Israel | Biography |
| *Jefferson Morley | 2017 | The Ghost: The Secret Life of CIA Spymaster James Jesus Angleton | James Jesus Angleton | Political | Cold War | US | Biography |
| John Costello | 1988 | Mask of Treachery | Anthony Blunt | Political | Cold War | USA/Soviet Union | Biography |
| *John Le Carré | 2016 | The Pigeon Tunnel: Stories from my Life | John Le Carré | Political | Cold War | UK/Soviet Union | Autobiography |
| John Costello and Oleg Tsarev | 1993 | Deadly Illusions | Aleksandr Orlov | Political | Cold War | Soviet Union/USA | Biography |
| Kim Philby | 2003 | My silent war: the autobiography of a spy | Kim Philby | Political | Cold War | USA/Soviet Union | Autobiography |
| Leslie Colitt | 1995 | Spymaster: The Real-life Karla, His Moles, and the East German Secret Police | Markus Wolf | Political | Cold War | East Germany | Biography |
| Martin Sixsmith | 2007 | The Litvinenko file: The True Story of a Death Foretold | Alexander Litvinenko | Political | Contemporary | Russia/UK | Biography |
| Mark Kushnirov | 2015 | Olga Chekhova | Olga Chekhova | Political | Cold War | Soviet Union | Biography |
| Mark Seaman | 2000 | Garbo: The Spy who Saved D-day | Juan Pujol García | Political | WWII | UK/Germany | Biography |
| Michael J. Sulick. | 2012 | Spying in America: Espionage from the Revolutionary War to the Dawn of the Cold War | Various | Political | Various | USA | Biography |
| Miranda Carter | 2001 | Anthony Blunt: His Lives | Anthony Blunt | Political | Cold War | UK/Soviet Union | Biography |
| Nicholas Booth | 2007 | Zigzag: the incredible exploits of Eddie Chapman | Eddie Chapman | Political | WWII | UK/Germany | Biography |
| Nigel West and Madoc Roberts. | 2011 | Snow: The Double Life of a World War II Spy | Arthur Owens | Political | WWII | UK/Germany | Biography |
| Nigel West | 2011 | Operation GARBO: The Personal Story of the Most Successful Spy of World War II | Juan Pujol García | Political | WWII | UK/Germany | Biography |
| Phillip Knightley | 2003 | Philby: The Life and Views of the K.G.B. Masterspy | Kim Philby | Political | Cold War | UK/Soviet Union | Biography |
| R. S. Rose | 2009 | Johnny: A Spy’s Life | Johann Heinrich Amadeus de Graaf | Political | Cold War | UK/Soviet Union | Biography |
| Robert Bruce Lockhart | 1987 | Reilly: The First Man | Sidney Reilly | Political | WWI | UK/Soviet Union | Biography |
| Richard B Spence | 2003 | Trust No One: The Secret World of Sidney Reilly | Sidney Reilly | Political | WWI | UK/Soviet Union | Biography |
| Ralph Carter Elwood | 1977 | Roman Malinovsky, A Life Without a Cause | Roman Malinovsky | Political | WWI | Soviet Union | Biography |
| Russell Miller | 2004 | Codename Tricycle: The True Story of the Second World War’s Most Extraordinary Double Agent | Dusan Popov | Political | WWII | UK/Germany | Biography |
| Sebastian Ritchie | 2004 | Our Man in Yugoslavia: The Story of a Secret Service Operative | Owen Reed | Political | WWII | UK/Yugoslavia | Biography |
| *Stella Rimington | 2002 | Open Secret: The Autobiography of the Former Director-General of MI5 | Stella Rimington | Political | 20th Century | UK | Autobiography |
| *Stephen Grey | 2015 | The New Spymasters: Inside the Modern World of Espionage from the Cold War to Global Terror | Various | Political | Cold War/War on Terror (Al-Qaeda, ISIS) | US/ Soviet Union/Afghanistan | Exposé |
| Tommy Jonason and Simon Olsson | 2011 | Agent Tate: the Wartime Story of Harry Williamson | Harry Williamson | Political | WWII | UK/Germany | Biography |
| Tony Sharp | 2014 | Stalin’s American Spy: Noel Field, Allen Dulles and the East European Show Trials | Noel Field | Political | Cold War | USA/Soviet Union | Biography |
| Vladimir Sakharov | 1981 | High Treason | Vladimir Sakharov | Political | Cold War | Soviet Union | Autobiography |
| Walter Krivitsky | 2000 | In Stalin’s Secret Service | Walter Krivitsky | Political | Cold War | Soviet Union | Autobiography |
| Walter Schellenberg | 2000 | The Labyrinth: Memoirs of Walter Schellenberg, Hitler’s Chief of Counterintelligence | Walter Schellenberg | Political | WWII | Germany | Autobiography |
| *William Stevenson | 2009 | A Man Called Intrepid: The Incredible WWII Narrative of the Hero Whose Spy Network and Secret Diplomacy Changed the Course of History | William Stephenson | Political | WWII | UK/Germany | Biography |
| Whittaker Chambers | 1952 | Witness | Alger Hiss | Political | Cold War | USA | Biography |
| *Yuri Modin, Jean-Charles Deniau and Agnieszka Ziarek | 1994 | My Five Cambridge Friends | Guy Burgess, Donald Maclean, Kim Philby, Anthony Blunt, John Cairncross | Political | Cold War | UK/Soviet Union | Biography |
Forty-eight spy biographies and autobiographies (books included in the analysis marked with asterisk).
| Author . | . | Title . | Spy name . | Type of spy . | Historical period . | Country . | Biography or autobiography . |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Alan S. Cowell | 2008 | The Terminal Spy: A True Story of Espionage, Betrayal and Murder | Alexander Litvinenko | Political | Contemporary | Russia/UK | Biography |
| Aleksandr Orlov | 2004 | The March of Time: Reminiscences | Aleksandr Orlov | Political | WWI | Russia | Autobiography |
| Antony Beevor | 2004 | The Mystery of Olga Chekhova | Olga Chekhova | Political | Cold War | Soviet Union | Biography |
| Anthony Masters | 1984 | The Man Who Was M: The Life of Maxwell Knight | Maxwell Knight | Political | WWII | UK | Biography |
| Barrie Penrose | 1988 | Conspiracy of Silence: The Secret Life of Anthony Blunt | Anthony Blunt | Political | Cold War | UK/Soviet Union | Biography |
| *Ben MacIntyre | 2015 | A Spy Among Friends: Kim Philby and the Great Betrayal | Kim Philby | Political | Cold War | UK/Soviet Union | Biography |
| *Ben MacIntyre | 2019 | The Spy and the Traitor: The greatest Espionage Story of the Cold War | Oleg Antonyevich Gordievsky | Political | Cold War | UK/Soviet Union | Biography |
| *Ben Macintyre | 2009 | Agent Zigzag: The True Wartime Story of Eddie Chapman: Lover, Betrayer, Hero, Spy | Eddie Chapman | Political | WWII | UK/Germany | Biography |
| Edward Harrison | 2012 | The Young Kim Philby: Soviet Spy and British Intelligence Officer | Kim Philby | Political | Cold War | UK/Soviet Union | Biography |
| Edward Gazur | 2001 | Secret Assignment:The FBI’s KGB General | Edward Gazur | Political | Cold War | USA/Soviet Union | Autobiography |
| Emil Draitser | 2011 | Stalin’s Romeo Spy: The Remarkable Rise and Fall of the KGB’s Most Daring Operative | Bystroletov | Political | Cold War | Soviet Union | Biography |
| *G. Edward White | 2004 | Alger Hiss’s Looking-glass Wars: The Covert Life of a Soviet Spy | Alger Hiss | Political | Cold War | USA/Soviet Union | Biography |
| Gary Kern | 2004 | A Death in Washington: Walter G. Krivitsky and the Stalin Terror | Walter Krivitsky | Political | WWII/Cold War | Soviet Union/USA | Biography |
| Genrikh Aviėzerovich Borovik | 1994 | The Philby Files: The Secret Life of Master Spy Kim Philby | Kim Philby | Political | Cold War | UK/Soviet Union | Biography |
| George Tenet | 2007 | At the Center of the Storm: My Years at the CIA | George Tenet | Political | Cold War | USA | Autobiography |
| Guy Liddel (ed. Nigel West) | 2005 | The Guy Liddell Diaries: MI5’s Director of Counter-Espionage in World War II | Guy Liddell | Political | WWII | UK/Germany | Autobiography |
| Haggai Eshed | 1997 | Reuven Shiloah: The Man behind the Mossad: Secret Diplomacy in the Creation of Israel | Reuven Shiloah | Political | 20th Century | Israel | Biography |
| *Jefferson Morley | 2017 | The Ghost: The Secret Life of CIA Spymaster James Jesus Angleton | James Jesus Angleton | Political | Cold War | US | Biography |
| John Costello | 1988 | Mask of Treachery | Anthony Blunt | Political | Cold War | USA/Soviet Union | Biography |
| *John Le Carré | 2016 | The Pigeon Tunnel: Stories from my Life | John Le Carré | Political | Cold War | UK/Soviet Union | Autobiography |
| John Costello and Oleg Tsarev | 1993 | Deadly Illusions | Aleksandr Orlov | Political | Cold War | Soviet Union/USA | Biography |
| Kim Philby | 2003 | My silent war: the autobiography of a spy | Kim Philby | Political | Cold War | USA/Soviet Union | Autobiography |
| Leslie Colitt | 1995 | Spymaster: The Real-life Karla, His Moles, and the East German Secret Police | Markus Wolf | Political | Cold War | East Germany | Biography |
| Martin Sixsmith | 2007 | The Litvinenko file: The True Story of a Death Foretold | Alexander Litvinenko | Political | Contemporary | Russia/UK | Biography |
| Mark Kushnirov | 2015 | Olga Chekhova | Olga Chekhova | Political | Cold War | Soviet Union | Biography |
| Mark Seaman | 2000 | Garbo: The Spy who Saved D-day | Juan Pujol García | Political | WWII | UK/Germany | Biography |
| Michael J. Sulick. | 2012 | Spying in America: Espionage from the Revolutionary War to the Dawn of the Cold War | Various | Political | Various | USA | Biography |
| Miranda Carter | 2001 | Anthony Blunt: His Lives | Anthony Blunt | Political | Cold War | UK/Soviet Union | Biography |
| Nicholas Booth | 2007 | Zigzag: the incredible exploits of Eddie Chapman | Eddie Chapman | Political | WWII | UK/Germany | Biography |
| Nigel West and Madoc Roberts. | 2011 | Snow: The Double Life of a World War II Spy | Arthur Owens | Political | WWII | UK/Germany | Biography |
| Nigel West | 2011 | Operation GARBO: The Personal Story of the Most Successful Spy of World War II | Juan Pujol García | Political | WWII | UK/Germany | Biography |
| Phillip Knightley | 2003 | Philby: The Life and Views of the K.G.B. Masterspy | Kim Philby | Political | Cold War | UK/Soviet Union | Biography |
| R. S. Rose | 2009 | Johnny: A Spy’s Life | Johann Heinrich Amadeus de Graaf | Political | Cold War | UK/Soviet Union | Biography |
| Robert Bruce Lockhart | 1987 | Reilly: The First Man | Sidney Reilly | Political | WWI | UK/Soviet Union | Biography |
| Richard B Spence | 2003 | Trust No One: The Secret World of Sidney Reilly | Sidney Reilly | Political | WWI | UK/Soviet Union | Biography |
| Ralph Carter Elwood | 1977 | Roman Malinovsky, A Life Without a Cause | Roman Malinovsky | Political | WWI | Soviet Union | Biography |
| Russell Miller | 2004 | Codename Tricycle: The True Story of the Second World War’s Most Extraordinary Double Agent | Dusan Popov | Political | WWII | UK/Germany | Biography |
| Sebastian Ritchie | 2004 | Our Man in Yugoslavia: The Story of a Secret Service Operative | Owen Reed | Political | WWII | UK/Yugoslavia | Biography |
| *Stella Rimington | 2002 | Open Secret: The Autobiography of the Former Director-General of MI5 | Stella Rimington | Political | 20th Century | UK | Autobiography |
| *Stephen Grey | 2015 | The New Spymasters: Inside the Modern World of Espionage from the Cold War to Global Terror | Various | Political | Cold War/War on Terror (Al-Qaeda, ISIS) | US/ Soviet Union/Afghanistan | Exposé |
| Tommy Jonason and Simon Olsson | 2011 | Agent Tate: the Wartime Story of Harry Williamson | Harry Williamson | Political | WWII | UK/Germany | Biography |
| Tony Sharp | 2014 | Stalin’s American Spy: Noel Field, Allen Dulles and the East European Show Trials | Noel Field | Political | Cold War | USA/Soviet Union | Biography |
| Vladimir Sakharov | 1981 | High Treason | Vladimir Sakharov | Political | Cold War | Soviet Union | Autobiography |
| Walter Krivitsky | 2000 | In Stalin’s Secret Service | Walter Krivitsky | Political | Cold War | Soviet Union | Autobiography |
| Walter Schellenberg | 2000 | The Labyrinth: Memoirs of Walter Schellenberg, Hitler’s Chief of Counterintelligence | Walter Schellenberg | Political | WWII | Germany | Autobiography |
| *William Stevenson | 2009 | A Man Called Intrepid: The Incredible WWII Narrative of the Hero Whose Spy Network and Secret Diplomacy Changed the Course of History | William Stephenson | Political | WWII | UK/Germany | Biography |
| Whittaker Chambers | 1952 | Witness | Alger Hiss | Political | Cold War | USA | Biography |
| *Yuri Modin, Jean-Charles Deniau and Agnieszka Ziarek | 1994 | My Five Cambridge Friends | Guy Burgess, Donald Maclean, Kim Philby, Anthony Blunt, John Cairncross | Political | Cold War | UK/Soviet Union | Biography |
| Author . | . | Title . | Spy name . | Type of spy . | Historical period . | Country . | Biography or autobiography . |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Alan S. Cowell | 2008 | The Terminal Spy: A True Story of Espionage, Betrayal and Murder | Alexander Litvinenko | Political | Contemporary | Russia/UK | Biography |
| Aleksandr Orlov | 2004 | The March of Time: Reminiscences | Aleksandr Orlov | Political | WWI | Russia | Autobiography |
| Antony Beevor | 2004 | The Mystery of Olga Chekhova | Olga Chekhova | Political | Cold War | Soviet Union | Biography |
| Anthony Masters | 1984 | The Man Who Was M: The Life of Maxwell Knight | Maxwell Knight | Political | WWII | UK | Biography |
| Barrie Penrose | 1988 | Conspiracy of Silence: The Secret Life of Anthony Blunt | Anthony Blunt | Political | Cold War | UK/Soviet Union | Biography |
| *Ben MacIntyre | 2015 | A Spy Among Friends: Kim Philby and the Great Betrayal | Kim Philby | Political | Cold War | UK/Soviet Union | Biography |
| *Ben MacIntyre | 2019 | The Spy and the Traitor: The greatest Espionage Story of the Cold War | Oleg Antonyevich Gordievsky | Political | Cold War | UK/Soviet Union | Biography |
| *Ben Macintyre | 2009 | Agent Zigzag: The True Wartime Story of Eddie Chapman: Lover, Betrayer, Hero, Spy | Eddie Chapman | Political | WWII | UK/Germany | Biography |
| Edward Harrison | 2012 | The Young Kim Philby: Soviet Spy and British Intelligence Officer | Kim Philby | Political | Cold War | UK/Soviet Union | Biography |
| Edward Gazur | 2001 | Secret Assignment:The FBI’s KGB General | Edward Gazur | Political | Cold War | USA/Soviet Union | Autobiography |
| Emil Draitser | 2011 | Stalin’s Romeo Spy: The Remarkable Rise and Fall of the KGB’s Most Daring Operative | Bystroletov | Political | Cold War | Soviet Union | Biography |
| *G. Edward White | 2004 | Alger Hiss’s Looking-glass Wars: The Covert Life of a Soviet Spy | Alger Hiss | Political | Cold War | USA/Soviet Union | Biography |
| Gary Kern | 2004 | A Death in Washington: Walter G. Krivitsky and the Stalin Terror | Walter Krivitsky | Political | WWII/Cold War | Soviet Union/USA | Biography |
| Genrikh Aviėzerovich Borovik | 1994 | The Philby Files: The Secret Life of Master Spy Kim Philby | Kim Philby | Political | Cold War | UK/Soviet Union | Biography |
| George Tenet | 2007 | At the Center of the Storm: My Years at the CIA | George Tenet | Political | Cold War | USA | Autobiography |
| Guy Liddel (ed. Nigel West) | 2005 | The Guy Liddell Diaries: MI5’s Director of Counter-Espionage in World War II | Guy Liddell | Political | WWII | UK/Germany | Autobiography |
| Haggai Eshed | 1997 | Reuven Shiloah: The Man behind the Mossad: Secret Diplomacy in the Creation of Israel | Reuven Shiloah | Political | 20th Century | Israel | Biography |
| *Jefferson Morley | 2017 | The Ghost: The Secret Life of CIA Spymaster James Jesus Angleton | James Jesus Angleton | Political | Cold War | US | Biography |
| John Costello | 1988 | Mask of Treachery | Anthony Blunt | Political | Cold War | USA/Soviet Union | Biography |
| *John Le Carré | 2016 | The Pigeon Tunnel: Stories from my Life | John Le Carré | Political | Cold War | UK/Soviet Union | Autobiography |
| John Costello and Oleg Tsarev | 1993 | Deadly Illusions | Aleksandr Orlov | Political | Cold War | Soviet Union/USA | Biography |
| Kim Philby | 2003 | My silent war: the autobiography of a spy | Kim Philby | Political | Cold War | USA/Soviet Union | Autobiography |
| Leslie Colitt | 1995 | Spymaster: The Real-life Karla, His Moles, and the East German Secret Police | Markus Wolf | Political | Cold War | East Germany | Biography |
| Martin Sixsmith | 2007 | The Litvinenko file: The True Story of a Death Foretold | Alexander Litvinenko | Political | Contemporary | Russia/UK | Biography |
| Mark Kushnirov | 2015 | Olga Chekhova | Olga Chekhova | Political | Cold War | Soviet Union | Biography |
| Mark Seaman | 2000 | Garbo: The Spy who Saved D-day | Juan Pujol García | Political | WWII | UK/Germany | Biography |
| Michael J. Sulick. | 2012 | Spying in America: Espionage from the Revolutionary War to the Dawn of the Cold War | Various | Political | Various | USA | Biography |
| Miranda Carter | 2001 | Anthony Blunt: His Lives | Anthony Blunt | Political | Cold War | UK/Soviet Union | Biography |
| Nicholas Booth | 2007 | Zigzag: the incredible exploits of Eddie Chapman | Eddie Chapman | Political | WWII | UK/Germany | Biography |
| Nigel West and Madoc Roberts. | 2011 | Snow: The Double Life of a World War II Spy | Arthur Owens | Political | WWII | UK/Germany | Biography |
| Nigel West | 2011 | Operation GARBO: The Personal Story of the Most Successful Spy of World War II | Juan Pujol García | Political | WWII | UK/Germany | Biography |
| Phillip Knightley | 2003 | Philby: The Life and Views of the K.G.B. Masterspy | Kim Philby | Political | Cold War | UK/Soviet Union | Biography |
| R. S. Rose | 2009 | Johnny: A Spy’s Life | Johann Heinrich Amadeus de Graaf | Political | Cold War | UK/Soviet Union | Biography |
| Robert Bruce Lockhart | 1987 | Reilly: The First Man | Sidney Reilly | Political | WWI | UK/Soviet Union | Biography |
| Richard B Spence | 2003 | Trust No One: The Secret World of Sidney Reilly | Sidney Reilly | Political | WWI | UK/Soviet Union | Biography |
| Ralph Carter Elwood | 1977 | Roman Malinovsky, A Life Without a Cause | Roman Malinovsky | Political | WWI | Soviet Union | Biography |
| Russell Miller | 2004 | Codename Tricycle: The True Story of the Second World War’s Most Extraordinary Double Agent | Dusan Popov | Political | WWII | UK/Germany | Biography |
| Sebastian Ritchie | 2004 | Our Man in Yugoslavia: The Story of a Secret Service Operative | Owen Reed | Political | WWII | UK/Yugoslavia | Biography |
| *Stella Rimington | 2002 | Open Secret: The Autobiography of the Former Director-General of MI5 | Stella Rimington | Political | 20th Century | UK | Autobiography |
| *Stephen Grey | 2015 | The New Spymasters: Inside the Modern World of Espionage from the Cold War to Global Terror | Various | Political | Cold War/War on Terror (Al-Qaeda, ISIS) | US/ Soviet Union/Afghanistan | Exposé |
| Tommy Jonason and Simon Olsson | 2011 | Agent Tate: the Wartime Story of Harry Williamson | Harry Williamson | Political | WWII | UK/Germany | Biography |
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