Títulos en Espionaje

Les cinq de Cambridge est un groupe d'espionnage composé de cinq étudiants de l'université de Cambridge recrutés par le KGB durant les années 1930. Ils travaillèrent pour le KGB durant la Seconde Guerre mondiale et la Guerre froide. Découvrez l'histoire extraordinaire de Kim Philby, Donald Maclean, Guy Burgess, Anthony Blunt et John Caincross, ces 5 agents qui ont réussi à pénétrer les plus hautes sphères de l'établissement de renseignement britannique.

Le nom même de Mata Hari est devenu synonyme d'espionnage, d'intrigue et de sensualité. La femme qui a adopté ce nom de scène est née Margaretha Zelle. Elle a été fusillée par la France pour intelligence avec l'ennemi en temps de guerre pendant la Première Guerre mondiale. Danseuse orientale à Paris, elle devient rapidement la coqueluche du Tout-Paris qui succombe totalement à ses charmes. Le succès retombé, Mata Hari rencontre de grandes difficultés financières et s'installe à La Haye.

Sidney Reilly est sans doute l'agent secret le plus célèbre de l'histoire. Ukrainien travaillant pour le SIS britannique, cet agent-gentleman qui parlait plusieurs langues et maîtrisait parfaitement l'art du déguisement et de la supercherie, se servait de son charisme et de charme aussi bien pour séduire les femmes que pour soutirer des renseignements lors de ses missions. Loin du mythe de James Bond, son extravagance lui causera bien des problèmes au sein du SIS.

Jonathan Pollard est un citoyen américain condamné à perpétuité par les Etats-Unis pour espionnage au profit d'Israël. Jonathan Pollard a été condamné en 1987 à la prison à vie pour avoir fourni à Israël des milliers de documents classés secret défense entre mai 1984 et son arrestation, en novembre 1985, après qu'il eut été refoulé de l'ambassade d'Israël à Washington. La gravité de sa peine reste un sujet polémique, source de nombreuses tensions mettant en péril les relations américano-israéliennes.

Robert Hanssen, né à Chicago en 1944, est un agent double américain du FBI, condamné à perpétuité en 2002 pour espionnage au profit de l'URSS et de la Russie. Son principal travail fut de monnayer des secrets américains pour les Russes. Il toucha ainsi près de 2 millions de dollars.

Découvrez comment cet agent méthodique et scrupuleux a démasqué au sein de la CIA un grand nombre d'agents doubles. Il fut démis de sa fonction de chef du contre-espionnage américain en 1974 pour avoir fait preuve d'excès de zèle. Son obsession à voir des agents doubles partout lui coûta son poste, sa paranoïa instaurant à la CIA un climat délétère nocif.

The untold story of an Israeli spy’s epic journey to bring the notorious Butcher of Latvia to justice - a case that altered the fates of all ex-Nazis.

They were the golden boys of Huntington, Indiana: Jarrod Wall, a 17-year-old Sunday school teacher, track star, top student, and local heartthrob; and his friends Erick Esch, a high school football hero, and John Jesus Valasquez. They were well-liked, all-American teens. Until one night when Jarrod and Erick entered the house of a local car collector Eldon Anson and burglarized the bachelor’s home - and Jarrod murdered him with repeated hatchet blows to the skull….

This program is read by the author. The thrilling, true story of the race to find a leak in the United States Embassy in Moscow—before more American assets are rounded up and killed. Foreword by Gen. Michael V. Hayden (Retd.), Former Director of NSA & CIA. In the late 1970s, the National...

THE PORTLAND SPY RING was one of the most infamous espionage cases from the Cold War. People the world over were shocked when its exposure revealed the shadowy world of deep cover KGB 'illegals' - spies operating under false identities stolen from the dead. The CIA's revelation to MI5 in 1960...

WINNER OF THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION 'A monumental achievement: profoundly personal, told with love, anger and great precision' - John le Carré 'A triumph of astonishing research ... No novel could possibly match such an important work of truth' - Antony Beevor 'Magnificent ... I...

ONE OF TIME’S 100 BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR The Crucial #1 New York Times Bestseller “The Mueller report is that rare Washington tell-all that surpasses its pre-publication hype…the best book by far on the workings of the Trump presidency.” —Carlos Lozada, The Washington Post The only...

Boris Morros was a major figure in the 1930s and 1940s. The head of music at Paramount, nominated for Academy Awards, he then went on to produce his own films with Laurel and Hardy, Fred Astaire, Henry Fonda, and others. But as J. Edgar Hoover would discover, these successes were a cover for one of the most incredible espionage tales in the history of the Cold War-Boris Morros also worked for Russian intelligence. Morros's assignments took him to the White House, the Vatican, and deep behind the Iron Curtain.

'One of the most successful MI5 undercover surveillance officers of his time.' - Sun 'The brutal truth about the war against terror. Fast-paced and gripping.' - Ant Middleton The explosive book from ex-MI5 surveillance officer Tom Marcus takes the reader on a non-stop, adrenalin-fuelled ride as...

The untold story of how Russia refined the art and science of targeted assassination abroad: “A compelling rendering of Putin’s frightening extensions of power into Europe and the United States” (Associated Press). They thought they had found a safe haven in the green hills of England...

In the early 1980s on a remote part of the Sudanese coast, a new luxury holiday resort opened for business. Catering for divers, it attracted guests from around the world. Little did the holidaymakers know that the staff were undercover spies, working for the Mossad - the Israeli secret service. Providing a front for covert night-time activities, the holiday village allowed the agents to carry out an operation unlike any seen before. What began with one cryptic message pleading for help, turned into the secret evacuation of thousands of Ethiopian Jews....

*FROM THE BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF EAST WEST STREET* As Governor of Galicia, SS Brigadeführer Otto Freiherr von Wächter presided over an authority on whose territory hundreds of thousands of Jews and Poles were killed, including the family of the author's grandfather. By the time the war ended in...

This is the incredible true story of the greatest spy you’ve never heard of - as told to the author by the woman herself. At the outbreak of World War Two, Nancy Wake’s glamorous life in the South of France seemed far removed from the fighting. But when her husband was called up for military service, Nancy felt she had just as much of a duty to fight for freedom. By 1943, her fearless undercover work even in the face of personal tragedy had earned her a place on the Gestapo’s "most wanted" list.

"With the nuance of a reporter and the pace of a thriller writer, Andy Greenberg gives us a glimpse of the cyberwars of the future while at the same time placing his story in the long arc of Russian and Ukrainian history." —Anne Applebaum, bestselling author of Twilight of Democracy The true...

The inside story of the covert operation that took down the heads of ISIS No Shadows in the Desert reveals the untold story of the behind-the-scenes fight against ISIS—one coordinated by heads of state and ultimately fought in the alleyways and open deserts of the Middle Eastern battlefield by...