Spies in Literature

Among the books that Douglas Wheeler recommends to his
students in History 537: Espionage in History:

(Book titles are linked to online booksellers. Also check Dimond Library's online card catalog for these titles)

Nonfiction

Her Majesty's Secret Service, Christopher Andrew (1986)

Spies and Spymasters: A Concise History of Intelligence, Jock Haswell (1977)

The CIA and American Democracy, R. Jeffrey-Jones (second revised edition, 1998)

A Century of Spies: Intelligence in the 20th Century, J. Richelson (1995)

The Zimmerman Telegram, Barbara Tuchman (1958, 1966)

Fiction

Kim, Rudyard Kipling (1901)

The Riddle of the Sands, Erskine Childers (1903)

The Man Who Was Thursday, G.K. Chesterton (1908)

The Thirty-Nine Steps, John Buchan (1915)

The Secret Vanguard, Michael Innes (1940)

N or M?, Agatha Christie (1941)

Our Man in Havana, Graham Greene (1943)

The Spy Who Came in from the Cold, John LeCarré (1963)

Odessa File, Frederick Forsyth (1972)

The Hunt for Red October, Tom Clancy (1984)

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