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Espionage. Altars and Spies
A Global History of Religious Espionage and Intelligence
Temples, monasteries, confessionals, pilgrimages. For five thousand years, the world’s most effective intelligence networks were not run by governments — they were run by priests, monks, missionaries, and confessors. Altars and Spies traces the deep, structural relationship between religious institutions and espionage across five millennia, six continents, and every major faith tradition. From the Oracle at Delphi to Russian Orthodox churches built near NATO airfields, the connection between faith and intelligence has never been what it appears.
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Espionage. Double Agents
A Global History of Betrayal, Espionage and the Hunt for Moles
A global, transhistorical examination of betrayal in espionage — why people become double agents, how they survive undetected for years, and how counterintelligence services hunt them down. From Ephialtes at Thermopylae to Aldrich Ames at Langley, from the Cambridge Five to Cuba’s systematic penetration of the CIA, Double Agents uses more than fifty cases across six continents and three millennia to answer the questions that popular accounts rarely ask. Why do intelligence services consistently fail to see what is in front of them? What separates a successful mole hunter from a paranoid one? And is betrayal always a moral failure — or can it sometimes be an act of conscience? Rigorous, global in scope, and genuinely surprising on every page, this is the definitive analytical history of espionage’s darkest art.
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Espionage. Industrial Spies
A Global History of Economic Espionage, Trade Secrets, and Stolen Technology
From Venetian merchant-spies and the theft of China’s silk secret to the KGB’s technology theft machine and the semiconductor wars — a 3,000-year history of how stolen knowledge built empires, destroyed monopolies, and permanently altered the balance of global power.
Available formats: Hardcover, Paperback, Ebook, Audiobook
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Espionage. The First Spies
A History of Ancient Espionage from the Pharaohs to Sun Tzu
Before there were states, there were spies. The First Spies traces the origins of intelligence from prehistoric hunter-gatherers through the fall of the ancient world, covering more than thirty civilisations — from Egypt and Persia to the Mongols, the Aztecs, the Inca, and feudal Japan. A global history of the oldest human weapon: information.
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Espionage. Women Spies
A Global History of Female Espionage
Three thousand years of espionage history — organised not by the wars men fought, but by the covers women used. Women Spies: Untold Stories from Three Thousand Years of Espionage traces a single pattern from ancient Mesopotamia to modern cyber operations: every civilisation independently discovered that women could access what men could not, hear what men assumed was private, and remain invisible in ways no trained operative could replicate. Every civilisation, independently, failed to defend against it.
