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Intelligence Books
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Legacy of Ashes: The History of the CIA (Hardcover)
by (shelved 61 times as intelligence)
avg rating 3.96 — 15,792 ratings — published 2007
Ghost Wars: The Secret History of the CIA, Afghanistan, and Bin Laden from the Soviet Invasion to September 10, 2001 (Paperback)
by (shelved 59 times as intelligence)
avg rating 4.32 — 19,299 ratings — published 2004
Psychology of Intelligence Analysis (Paperback)
by (shelved 55 times as intelligence)
avg rating 4.27 — 1,112 ratings — published 1999
Intelligence in War: Knowledge of the Enemy from Napoleon to Al-Qaeda (Hardcover)
by (shelved 51 times as intelligence)
avg rating 3.66 — 1,865 ratings — published 2003
The Art of Intelligence (Audio CD)
by (shelved 48 times as intelligence)
avg rating 3.84 — 3,245 ratings — published 2012
Neuromancer (Sprawl, #1)
by (shelved 41 times as intelligence)
avg rating 3.89 — 371,190 ratings — published 1984
The Sword and the Shield: The Mitrokhin Archive and the Secret History of the KGB (Paperback)
by (shelved 39 times as intelligence)
avg rating 3.94 — 2,168 ratings — published 1985
Craft of Intelligence: America's Legendary Spy Master On The Fundamentals Of Intelligence Gathering For A Free World (Paperback)
by (shelved 39 times as intelligence)
avg rating 3.75 — 936 ratings — published 1962
On Intelligence (Paperback)
by (shelved 38 times as intelligence)
avg rating 4.11 — 6,983 ratings — published 2004
Flowers for Algernon (Paperback)
by (shelved 33 times as intelligence)
avg rating 4.24 — 818,525 ratings — published 1966
The Puzzle Palace: Inside the National Security Agency, America's Most Secret Intelligence Organization (Paperback)
by (shelved 33 times as intelligence)
avg rating 3.89 — 1,337 ratings — published 1982
Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies (Hardcover)
by (shelved 32 times as intelligence)
avg rating 3.85 — 21,385 ratings — published 2014
Intelligence: From Secrets to Policy (Paperback)
by (shelved 32 times as intelligence)
avg rating 3.90 — 695 ratings — published 1999
Body of Secrets: Anatomy of the Ultra-Secret National Security Agency from the Cold War Through the Dawn of a New Century (Paperback)
by (shelved 29 times as intelligence)
avg rating 3.91 — 1,820 ratings — published 2001
A Thousand Brains: A New Theory of Intelligence (Hardcover)
by (shelved 28 times as intelligence)
avg rating 4.05 — 7,039 ratings — published 2021
Rise and Kill First: The Secret History of Israel's Targeted Assassinations (Hardcover)
by (shelved 28 times as intelligence)
avg rating 4.42 — 10,216 ratings — published 2018
Emotional Intelligence: Why It Can Matter More Than IQ (Hardcover)
by (shelved 28 times as intelligence)
avg rating 4.06 — 137,946 ratings — published 1995
The Spy and the Traitor: The Greatest Espionage Story of the Cold War (Hardcover)
by (shelved 27 times as intelligence)
avg rating 4.52 — 92,490 ratings — published 2018
Spies, Lies, and Algorithms: The History and Future of American Intelligence (Hardcover)
by (shelved 26 times as intelligence)
avg rating 3.95 — 1,518 ratings — published 2022
Intelligence Analysis: A Target-Centric Approach (Paperback)
by (shelved 26 times as intelligence)
avg rating 3.94 — 237 ratings — published 2003
The Secret World: A History of Intelligence (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 26 times as intelligence)
avg rating 3.98 — 806 ratings — published 2018
The Billion Dollar Spy: A True Story of Cold War Espionage and Betrayal (Hardcover)
by (shelved 26 times as intelligence)
avg rating 4.24 — 16,289 ratings — published 2015
Digital Fortress (Paperback)
by (shelved 25 times as intelligence)
avg rating 3.71 — 669,522 ratings — published 1998
Surprise, Kill, Vanish: The Secret History Of CIA Paramilitary Armies, Operators, And Assassins (Hardcover)
by (shelved 25 times as intelligence)
avg rating 4.31 — 7,573 ratings — published 2019
The Assault on Intelligence: American National Security in an Age of Lies (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 25 times as intelligence)
avg rating 4.00 — 1,573 ratings — published 2018
The Neuroscience of Intelligence (Cambridge Fundamentals of Neuroscience in Psychology)
by (shelved 25 times as intelligence)
avg rating 4.24 — 455 ratings — published 2015
The Bell Curve: Intelligence and Class Structure in American Life (Paperback)
by (shelved 25 times as intelligence)
avg rating 3.61 — 3,545 ratings — published 1994
Defend the Realm: The Authorized History of MI5 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 24 times as intelligence)
avg rating 3.89 — 1,167 ratings — published 2009
The Hunt for Red October (Jack Ryan, #3)
by (shelved 24 times as intelligence)
avg rating 4.12 — 390,862 ratings — published 1984
See No Evil: The True Story of a Ground Soldier in the CIA's War on Terrorism (Paperback)
by (shelved 24 times as intelligence)
avg rating 3.94 — 5,238 ratings — published 2002
Facts and Fears: Hard Truths from a Life in Intelligence (Hardcover)
by (shelved 23 times as intelligence)
avg rating 4.11 — 2,400 ratings — published 2018
A Brief History of Intelligence: Evolution, AI, and the Five Breakthroughs That Made Our Brains (Hardcover)
by (shelved 22 times as intelligence)
avg rating 4.47 — 5,263 ratings — published 2023
Pattern Recognition (Blue Ant, #1)
by (shelved 22 times as intelligence)
avg rating 3.88 — 53,065 ratings — published 2003
Clear and Present Danger (Jack Ryan, #5; Jack Ryan Universe, #6)
by (shelved 22 times as intelligence)
avg rating 4.15 — 144,766 ratings — published 1989
Active Measures: The Secret History of Disinformation and Political Warfare (Hardcover)
by (shelved 21 times as intelligence)
avg rating 4.14 — 1,563 ratings — published 2020
Directorate S: The C.I.A. and America's Secret Wars in Afghanistan and Pakistan, 2001-2016 (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 21 times as intelligence)
avg rating 4.21 — 4,583 ratings — published 2018
Gideon's Spies: The Secret History of the Mossad (Paperback)
by (shelved 21 times as intelligence)
avg rating 3.93 — 3,676 ratings — published 1999
Spycraft: The Secret History of the CIA's Spytechs, from Communism to al-Qaeda (Hardcover)
by (shelved 21 times as intelligence)
avg rating 3.87 — 1,406 ratings — published 2008
Spook Country (Blue Ant, #2)
by (shelved 21 times as intelligence)
avg rating 3.72 — 21,500 ratings — published 2007
Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid (Paperback)
by (shelved 21 times as intelligence)
avg rating 4.29 — 53,275 ratings — published 1979
Structured Analytic Techniques for Intelligence Analysis (Paperback)
by (shelved 20 times as intelligence)
avg rating 4.31 — 286 ratings — published 2010
The Devil's Chessboard: Allen Dulles, the CIA, and the Rise of America's Secret Government (Hardcover)
by (shelved 20 times as intelligence)
avg rating 4.35 — 8,637 ratings — published 2015
Why Intelligence Fails: Lessons from the Iranian Revolution and the Iraq War (Cornell Studies in Security Affairs)
by (shelved 20 times as intelligence)
avg rating 3.85 — 211 ratings — published 2010
Out of My Mind (Out of My Mind, #1)
by (shelved 20 times as intelligence)
avg rating 4.34 — 191,718 ratings — published 2010
Analyzing Intelligence: Origins, Obstacles, and Innovations (Paperback)
by (shelved 20 times as intelligence)
avg rating 3.83 — 188 ratings — published 2008
How Spies Think: Ten Lessons in Intelligence (Hardcover)
by (shelved 19 times as intelligence)
avg rating 3.62 — 846 ratings — published
Frames Of Mind: The Theory Of Multiple Intelligences (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as intelligence)
avg rating 3.95 — 2,771 ratings — published 1983
Playing to the Edge: American Intelligence in the Age of Terror (Hardcover)
by (shelved 18 times as intelligence)
avg rating 3.81 — 2,042 ratings — published 2016
Intelligence: All That Matters (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 18 times as intelligence)
avg rating 4.05 — 719 ratings — published 2015
A Spy Among Friends: Kim Philby and the Great Betrayal (Hardcover)
by (shelved 18 times as intelligence)
avg rating 4.20 — 30,423 ratings — published 2014
“The more stupid one is, the closer one is to reality. The more stupid one is, the clearer one is. Stupidity is brief and artless, while intelligence squirms and hides itself. Intelligence is unprincipled, but stupidity is honest and straightforward.”
― The Brothers Karamazov
― The Brothers Karamazov
“People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use.”
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