I'm going to start this review off with the verdict: A must-read for those spy novel fans who want to find out the truth behind those twisty plots. The ultimate 'truth is stranger than fiction' Cold War spy story. Oleg Gordievsky is a man who grew up in the world of the KGB. His father... Continue Reading →
American Spy by Lauren Wilkinson
1992. After an assassination attempt, an ex-FBI agent and CIA contractor, flees with her two young sons to her mother's house on the island of Martinique. While there, Marie writes her children an explanation of her life. 1962- 1992. The story of her life growing up in NYC, running informants as a new FBI agent,... Continue Reading →
The Spy Who Was Left Behind by Michael Pullara
‘It was very difficult for the Americans to tell the good guys from the bad guys.’ Would the United States allow a man to take the fall for a CIA agent’s murder? Would the government be complicit in the cover-up? These are the overreaching questions directing Michael Pullara's book The Spy Who Was Left Behind.... Continue Reading →
The Spy’s Daughter by Adam Brookes
I read Adam Brookes's first book in this series Night Heron when it was released four years ago. I thoroughly enjoyed the main character journalist Phillip Mangan's introduction into the skills of tradecraft. He is the anti-Bourne. He doesn't kick or shoot his way out of trouble; he knows how to read people and as... Continue Reading →