Titres dans Espionnage

The Spy with No Name is the unbelievable true story of Erwin van Haarlem, a Cold War secret agent whose stolen identity broke the heart of an innocent woman - who thought she'd found her long-lost son. In 1977, Johanna van Haarlem, 52, finally tracked down the son she had abandoned as a baby, during the Second World War. She was delighted that he had grown into a charming Dutch waiter in London. But Erwin van Haarlem was actually a dangerous Communist spy who had stolen her son's identity to uncover British and American military secrets.

As an undercover police officer with the drugs squad Neil Woods regularly risked his life on the streets dealing with some of the most violent and unpredictable criminals in Britain. Good Cop, Bad War is a unique story about a man with a striking ability to infiltrate and extinguish drug gangs...

Jim Nicholson was one of the CIA's top veteran case officers. By day he taught spycraft at the CIA's clandestine training center, The Farm. By night he was a minivan-driving single father racing home to have dinner with his kids. But Nicholson led a double life. For more than two years, he had met covertly with agents of Russia's foreign intelligence service and turned over troves of classified documents. In 1997 Nicholson became the highest-ranking CIA officer ever convicted of espionage.

Klaus Fuchs est un physicien allemand et un espion communiste qui divulgua les secrets de fabrication de la bombe atomique, contribuant ainsi fortement à ce que l'URSS soit également dotée de cette nouvelle arme terrible et destructrice.

In December 2009, a group of the CIA’s top terrorist hunters gathered at a secret base in Khost, Afghanistan, to greet a rising superspy: Humam Khalil al-Balawi, a Jordanian double-agent who infiltrated the upper ranks of al-Qaeda. For months, he had sent shocking revelations from inside the terrorist network and now promised to help the CIA assassinate Osama bin Laden’s top deputy. Instead, as he stepped from his car, he detonated a thirty-pound bomb strapped to his chest, instantly killing seven CIA operatives....

Sidney Reilly est un espion travaillant pour le SIS britannique au début du XXe siècle. Considéré comme leur meilleur agent à cette époque, il est exécuté par la police politique soviétique de l'époque, la Guépéou. Parlant plusieurs langues, il était charismatique et brillant, tout en étant d'humeur changeante. Conscient de son image, il en aurait profité pour faire mousser ses exploits. Pour plusieurs collègues du SIS, il était un playboy qui menait une vie luxueuse, tout en exploitant les femmes à ses propres fins.

La National Security Agency (NSA, "Agence nationale de la sécurité") est un organisme gouvernemental du département de la Défense des États-Unis, responsable du renseignement d'origine électromagnétique et de la sécurité des systèmes d'information du gouvernement américain. Contrairement à la CIA, fondée de manière très officielle, la NSA est restée très secrète, et son existence ne fut officiellement reconnue qu'en 1957. Cet épisode fit gagner à la NSA son premier surnom, "No Such Agency" ("Une telle agence n'existe pas") par les journalistes.

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....

INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES, WALL STREET JOURNAL, AND USA TODAY BESTSELLER “As exciting as any spy novel” (Daily News, New York), The Princess Spy follows the hidden history of an ordinary American girl who became one of the OSS’s most daring World War II spies before marrying into European...

In 2015, a major story broke exposing Hillary Clinton's role in approving the sale of an American uranium company to the Russian state nuclear agency Rosatom. An indispensable guide to the hidden background of recent events, Fallout shows how Putin's bid for nuclear dominance produced a series of political scandals that ultimately posed one of the greatest threats to our democracy in modern American history. 

In Spymaster's Prism, the legendary former spymaster Jack Devine details the unending struggle with Russia and its intelligence agencies as it works against our national security. Devine tells this story through the unique perspective of a seasoned CIA professional who served more than three decades, some at the highest levels of the agency.

Spring 1958: a mysterious individual believed to be high up in the Polish secret service began passing Soviet secrets to the West. His name was Michal Goleniewski, and he remains one of the most important yet least known and most misunderstood spies of the Cold War. Even his death is shrouded in mystery and he has been written out of the history of Cold War espionage - until now. 

Ana Montes had spent seventeen years spying for the Cubans. She had been raised in a patriotic Puerto Rican household: Her father, a psychiatrist, was a former colonel in the US Army. Her sister worked as a translator for the FBI and helped break up a ring of Cuban spies in Miami. Her brother was also a loyal FBI agent. Montes impressed her bosses but in secret spent her breaks memorizing top-secret documents before sending them to the Cuban government. Retired FBI agent Peter J. Lapp explains the clues that led their team to catch one of the United States’ most dangerous spies.

Oleg Gordievsky was the highest ranking KGB officer ever to work for Britain. For eleven years, he acted as a secret agent, reporting to the British Secret Intelligence Service while continuing to work as a KGB officer. He gave such a clear insight into the mind and methods of the KGB and the...

The Good Spy is Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer Kai Bird’s compelling portrait of the remarkable life and death of one of the most important operatives in CIA history - a man who, had he lived, might have helped heal the rift between Arabs and the West. On April 18, 1983, a bomb exploded outside the American Embassy in Beirut, killing 63 people. The attack was a geopolitical turning point. It marked the beginning of Hezbollah as a political force, but even more important, it eliminated America’s most influential and effective intelligence officer in the Middle East - CIA operative Robert Ames.

L'Opération Oiseau bleu ou la "Force K" fut mise en œuvre par le SDECE (services secrets français) en 1956, deuxième année de la guerre d'indépendance de l'Algérie. Le projet, élaboré semble-t-il à la fin 1955 au niveau du Gouvernement Général de l'Algérie, envisage de détacher de la rébellion du FLN plusieurs centaines de Kabyles puis de les transformer en commandos clandestins, opérant avec des tenues et des armes analogues à celles de l'ALN, le bras armé du FLN, et chargés de mettre en œuvre un véritable "contre-maquis" en Kabylie baptisé "Oiseau bleu" ou "Force K" comme "Kabyle".

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.

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.

Two legendary former CIA operatives reveal the tactics they developed to survive the Cold War in Moscow and turn the odds in America’s favor—as referenced in Apple TV’s Emmy-winning spy thriller series, Slow Horses. “Devilishly fun.” —New York Times Book Review Antonio and Jonna...

In this instant New York Times bestselling account of violence and espionage, Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative reporter Ronan Farrow exposes serial abusers and a cabal of powerful interests hell-bent on covering up the truth, at any cost. Inspiration for the HBO Max streaming documentary...