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Gray Zone Games: Idov's Thriller Mirrors Today's Shadowy Reality

The Cormorant Hunt

Gray Zone Games: Idov's Thriller Mirrors Today's Shadowy Reality

BOOK REVIEW: The Cormorant HuntBy Michael Idov / ScribnerReviewed by: Anne and Jay GrunerThe Reviewers: Anne and Jay Gruner are retired CIA senior [...] More

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The Gray Man’s Back—And the Body Count’s Rising

The Hard Line (Gray Man)

The Gray Man’s Back—And the Body Count’s Rising

BOOK REVIEW: The Hard Line (Gray Man)By: Mark Greaney/ BerkleyReviewed by: Susan GorgioskiThe Reviewer: Susan Gorgioski is a writer who has worked in [...] More

Putin’s Long Shadow Over Post-Soviet Russia

The Return of Russia

Putin’s Long Shadow Over Post-Soviet Russia

BOOK REVIEW: The Return of Russia: From Yeltsin to Putin, the Story of a Vengeful KremlinBy James Rodgers / Yale University PressReviewed by: Susan [...] More

The Architects of CIA Analysis

The Intelligence Intellectuals

The Architects of CIA Analysis

BOOK REVIEW: The Intelligence Intellectuals: Social Scientists and the Making of the CIABy Peter C. Grace/ Georgetown University PressReviewed by: [...] More

A Field Guide to Surviving Trauma

Mindful Soldier: Building Resilience to Overcome Life's Challenges

A Field Guide to Surviving Trauma

BOOK REVIEW: Mindful Soldier: Building Resilience to Overcome Life’s ChallengesBy Ash Alexander-Cooper with Dr. Jessica K. Miller / Hachette [...] More

Kilowatt of Wrath: Revenge and Assassinations via Secret Cooperation

Operation Wrath of God: The Secret History of European Intelligence and Mossad's Assassination Campa

Kilowatt of Wrath: Revenge and Assassinations via Secret Cooperation

Book Review of Operation Wrath of God: The Secret History of European Intelligence and Mossad's Assassination Campaign By Aviva Guttmann / Cambridge [...] More

From Shah to Supreme Leader: A Revolution Gone Wrong

King of Kings: The Iranian Revolution: A Story of Hubris, Delusion and Catastrophic Miscalculation

From Shah to Supreme Leader: A Revolution Gone Wrong

BOOK REVIEW: King of Kings. The Iranian Revolution: A Story of Hubris, Delusion and Catastrophic Miscalculation.By Scott Anderson / DoubledayReviewed [...] More

When Journalism Met Totalitarianism: Lessons From Prewar Paris

The Typewriter and the Guillotine

When Journalism Met Totalitarianism: Lessons From Prewar Paris

BOOK REVIEW: THE TYPEWRITER AND THE GUILLOTINE: AN AMERICAN JOURNALIST, A GERMAN SERIAL KILLER, AND PARIS ON THE EVE OF WWIIBy Mark Braude / Grand [...] More

When Journalism Met Totalitarianism: Lessons From Prewar Paris

The Typewriter and the Guillotine

When Journalism Met Totalitarianism: Lessons From Prewar Paris

BOOK REVIEW: THE TYPEWRITER AND THE GUILLOTINE: AN AMERICAN JOURNALIST, A GERMAN SERIAL KILLER, AND PARIS ON THE EVE OF WWIIBy Mark Braude / Grand [...] More

The Burden of the Bomb

The Most Awful Responsibility: Truman and the Secret Struggle for Control of the Atomic Age

The Burden of the Bomb

BOOK REVIEW: The Most Awful Responsibility: Truman and the Secret Struggle for Control of the Atomic AgeBy Alex Wellerstein / William MorrowReviewed [...] More

The Mossad’s Most Transformational Leader

The Architect of Espionage: The Man Who Built Israel's Mossad into the World's Boldest Intelligence

The Mossad’s Most Transformational Leader

BOOK REVIEW: THE ARCHITECT OF ESPIONAGE: The Man Who Built Israel’s Mossad into the World’s Boldest Intelligence ForceBy Samuel M. Katz / [...] More

Can Iran Ever Become a “Normal Adversary”?

Enduring Hostility

Can Iran Ever Become a “Normal Adversary”?

BOOK REVIEW: ENDURING HOSTILITY: THE MAKING OF AMERICA’S IRAN POLICYBy Dalia Dassa Kaye / Stanford University PressReviewed by: Joe ZacksThe [...] More

The Spy Who Came in Because He Wanted a Divorce

The Defector

The Spy Who Came in Because He Wanted a Divorce

BOOK REVIEW: The Defector. The Untold Story of the KGB Agent Who Saved MI5 and Changed the Cold WarBy Richard Kerbaj / BlinkReviewed by: Tim [...] More