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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.
