Monday, April 29, 2019

SPIES The 2019 Theme: Books Read So Far

I may have forgotten some, but since the first of the new year, here's 21 that I remember.

1  Behind Enemy Lines:  The True Story of a Jewish Spy in Nazi Germany by Marthe Cohn

2  Spies in the Family:  An American Spymaster, His Russian Crown Jewel, and the Friendship that Helped End the Cold War by Eva Dillon

3  A Spy Among Friends:  Kim Philby and the Great Betrayal by Ben Macintyre

4  The Black Hand:  The Epic War between a Brilliant Detective and the Deadliest Secret Society in American History by Stephan Talty

5  The Billion Dollar Spy:  A True Story of Cold War Espionage and Betrayal by David E. Hoffman

6  Code Name Lise:  The True Story of the Woman Who Became WWII's Most Highly Decorated Spy by Larry Loftis

7  Ghost:  My Thirty Years as an FBI Undercover Agent by Michael R. McGowan and Ralph Pezzullo

8  One Hell of a Gamble:  Khrushchev, Castro and Kennedy, 1958-1964

9  The Spy's Son:  The True Story of the Highest Ranking CIA Officer Ever Convicted of Espionage and the Son He Trained to Spy for Russia by Bryan Denson

10  The Triple Agent:  The Al-Qaeada Mole Who Infiltrated the CIA by Joby Warrick

11  The Catcher was a Spy by Nicholas Davidoff

12  Spy Princess:  The Life of Noor Inayat Khan by Shrabani Basu

13  Sisterhood of Spies:  The Women of the OSS by Elizabeth P McIntosh

14  Avenue of Spies:  A True Story of Espionage, Terror and One American Family's Heroic Resistance to Nazi-Occupied France by Alex Kershaw

15  Gray Work:  Confessions of an American Paramilitary Spy by Jamie Smith

16  Madame Fourcade's Secret War:  The Daring Young Woman Who Led France's Largest Spy Network Against Hitler by Lynne Olson

17  The First Conspiracy:  The Secret Plot to Kill George Washington by Brad Meltzer and Josh Mensch

18  The Company We Keep:  A Husband and Wife True Life Spy Story by Robert and Dayna Baer

19  See No Evil:  The True Story of a Ground Soldier in the CIA's War on Terrorism by Robert Baer

20  Agent Zigzag:  A True Story of Nazi Espionage, Love and Betrayal by Ben MacIntyre

21  Under Fire:  The Untold Story of the Attack in Benghazi by Fred Burton and Samuel M. Katz