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The Spy Who Came In from the Cold (George Smiley, #3)
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The Manchurian Candidate
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Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (George Smiley #5)
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John le Carré: The Biography
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The Quiet Americans: Four CIA Spies at the Dawn of the Cold War—A Tragedy in Three Acts
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Legacy of Ashes: The History of the CIA
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Tim Weiner (Goodreads Author)
3.95 avg rating — 14,830 ratings
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The Spy Who Came In from the Cold
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Surprise, Kill, Vanish: The Secret History Of CIA Paramilitary Armies, Operators, And Assassins
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Annie Jacobsen (Goodreads Author)
4.32 avg rating — 6,719 ratings
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Bitter Fruit: The Story of the American Coup in Guatemala
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A Spy Among Friends: Kim Philby and the Great Betrayal
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The Ipcress File (Secret File, #1)
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The Ghost: The Secret Life of CIA Spymaster James Jesus Angleton
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The Man from U.N.C.L.E. (The Man from U.N.C.L.E., #1)
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From Russia with Love (James Bond, #5)
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Nick Fury: Agent of S.H.I.E.L.D. IDW Artist's Edition
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Live and Let Die (James Bond, #2)
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Nick Fury, Agent of S.H.I.E.L.D.: Who is Scorpio?
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Moonraker (James Bond, #3)
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S.H.I.E.L.D.: The Complete Collection
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3.91 avg rating — 117 ratings
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Goldfinger (James Bond, #7)
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Diamonds are Forever (James Bond, #4)
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Dr. No (James Bond, #6)
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Call for the Dead (George Smiley, #1)
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On Her Majesty's Secret Service (James Bond, #11)
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Thunderball (James Bond, #9)
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Agent Sniper: The Cold War Superagent and the Ruthless Head of the CIA
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Tim Tate (Goodreads Author)
3.55 avg rating — 168 ratings
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The Man with the Golden Gun (James Bond, #13)
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The Spy Who Loved Me (James Bond, #10)
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3.40 avg rating — 14,900 ratings
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France Restored: Cold War Diplomacy and the Quest for Leadership in Europe, 1944-1954
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3.75 avg rating — 16 ratings
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You Only Live Twice (James Bond, #12)
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Wise Gals: The Spies Who Built the CIA and Changed the Future of Espionage
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Nathalia Holt (Goodreads Author)
3.88 avg rating — 2,901 ratings
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Octopussy and The Living Daylights (James Bond, #14)
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3.58 avg rating — 9,855 ratings
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Quantum of Solace
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3.77 avg rating — 3,449 ratings
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Castro's Secrets: Cuban Intelligence, The CIA, and the Assassination of John F. Kennedy
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Brian Latell (Goodreads Author)
3.79 avg rating — 153 ratings
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Solo
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A Great Place to Have a War: America in Laos and the Birth of a Military CIA
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3.91 avg rating — 763 ratings
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Trigger Mortis
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Anthony Horowitz (Goodreads Author)
3.79 avg rating — 9,471 ratings
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The Road Not Taken: Edward Lansdale and the American Tragedy in Vietnam
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4.22 avg rating — 1,112 ratings
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Forever and a Day
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Anthony Horowitz (Goodreads Author)
3.90 avg rating — 9,551 ratings
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The Brothers: John Foster Dulles, Allen Dulles & Their Secret World War
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4.13 avg rating — 4,130 ratings
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All the Shah's Men: An American Coup and the Roots of Middle East Terror
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Nineteen Eighty-Four
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4.20 avg rating — 5,314,234 ratings
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Back Channel
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3.87 avg rating — 1,014 ratings
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Code to Zero
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Ken Follett (Goodreads Author)
3.87 avg rating — 28,106 ratings
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The Age of Eisenhower: America and the World in the 1950s
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4.34 avg rating — 1,543 ratings
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Into the Volcano: A Mallory & Morse Novel of Espionage
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3.77 avg rating — 64 ratings
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Spies, Lies, and Exile: The Extraordinary Story of Russian Double Agent George Blake
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3.65 avg rating — 574 ratings
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Eye of the Archangel: A Mallory & Morse Novel of Espionage
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3.85 avg rating — 33 ratings
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A Brotherhood of Spies: The U-2 and the CIA's Secret War
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4.25 avg rating — 399 ratings
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With a Mind to Kill
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Anthony Horowitz (Goodreads Author)
3.87 avg rating — 6,152 ratings
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Spies of Mississippi: The True Story of the Spy Network that Tried to Destroy the Civil Rights Movement
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3.62 avg rating — 513 ratings
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Ethel Rosenberg
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Anne Sebba (Goodreads Author)
3.90 avg rating — 2,026 ratings
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Horse Under Water (Secret File, #2)
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3.79 avg rating — 1,620 ratings
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For Your Eyes Only: Ian Fleming and James Bond
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Funeral in Berlin (Secret File #3)
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The Looking Glass War (George Smiley, #4)
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3.73 avg rating — 18,120 ratings
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Fail-Safe
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4.16 avg rating — 5,965 ratings
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Intelligence Wars: American Secret History from Hitler to Al-Qaeda
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3.62 avg rating — 118 ratings
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Red Alert
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Playing with Fire: The 1968 Election and the Transformation of American Politics
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On the Beach
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Passage By Night
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The Game of X
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For Your Eyes Only (James Bond, #8)
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Casino Royale (James Bond, #1)
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The Copenhagen Affair (Man from U.N.C.L.E., #3)
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The Doomsday Affair (Man From U.N.C.L.E., #2)
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The Mad Scientist Affair (The Man from U.N.C.L.E. #5)
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The Dagger Affair (The Man From U.N.C.L.E., #4)
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The Monster Wheel Affair (The Man From U.N.C.L.E., #8)
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The Vampire Affair (The Man From U.N.C.L.E., #6)
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The Radioactive Camel Affair (The Man From U.N.C.L.E., #7)
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The Invisibility Affair (The Man From U.N.C.L.E., #11)
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The Rainbow Affair (The Man From U.N.C.L.E., #13)
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The Diving Dames Affair (The Man From U.N.C.L.E., #9)
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The Finger in the Sky Affair (The Man from U.N.C.L.E., #23)
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The Splintered Sunglasses Affair (The Man from U.N.C.L.E., #16)
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The Cross of Gold Affair (The Man From U.N.C.L.E., #14)
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The Unfair Fare Affair (The Man From U.N.C.L.E., #18)
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The Hollow Crown Affair (The Man From U.N.C.L.E., #17)
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The Corfu Affair (The Man from U.N.C.L.E. #20)
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The Power Cube Affair (The Man From U.N.C.L.E., #19)
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The Stone-cold Dead in the Market Affair (The Man From U.N.C.L.E., #22)
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The Utopia Affair (The Man From U.N.C.L.E., #15)
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The Assassination Affair (The Man From U.N.C.L.E., #10)
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The Mind-Twisters Affair (The Man From U.N.C.L.E., #12)
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The Calcutta Affair
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The Thinking Machine Affair (The Man From U.N.C.L.E., #21)
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The Coin of El Diablo Affair
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The Sedona Affair(The Man From U.N.C.L.E. # 3)
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The Deadly Deception Affair(The Man From U.N.C.L.E. # 2)
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The Cerro Negro Affair(The Man From U.N.C.L.E. # 1)
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The Three Blind Mice Affair (The Man from U.N.C.L.E. #2)
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The Final Affair
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