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I Spy
- By: Tom Marcus
- Narrated by: Georgia Maguire, Jason Langley
- Length: 6 hrs and 30 mins
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Tom Marcus spent years of his life undercover, waging a secret war on the streets against those who want to do us harm....
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Great book
- By Nick on 31-07-2019
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Stakeknife's Dirty War
- How Scappaticci, British Intelligence and Special Branch Ran the IRA
- By: Richard O'Rawe
- Narrated by: Alan Turkington
- Length: 8 hrs and 10 mins
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Freddie Scappaticci was born in 1946 and raised in a deeply nationalist area of Belfast. When the Troubles broke out in 1969, he joined the Provisional IRA, where he quickly rose through the ranks, becoming commander of Belfast in 1984....
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The Accidental Spy
- By: Sean O'Driscoll
- Narrated by: Gerry O'Brien
- Length: 10 hrs and 8 mins
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The gripping real story of the ordinary American man who found himself at the centre of a deadly terrorist organisation - and working for both MI5 and the FBI....
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Soldier Spy
- By: Tom Marcus
- Narrated by: Jason Langley
- Length: 7 hrs and 18 mins
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In the boot were six homemade pipe bombs, all linked to detonate at the same time from a single call on a brand-new pay-as-you-go phone found on the target....
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Fantastic story. Superb narrator.
- By Phil Parker on 26-07-2017
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Into the Lion's Mouth
- The True Story of Dusko Popov: Word War II Spy, Patriot, and the Real-Life Inspiration for James Bond
- By: Larry Loftis
- Narrated by: Eric G. Dove
- Length: 9 hrs and 18 mins
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A double agent for the Abwehr, MI5 and MI6, and the FBI during World War II, Popov seduced numerous women, spoke five languages, and was a crack shot....
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very insightful
- By Kevin on 24-11-2016
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The Scientist and the Spy
- A True Story of China, the FBI, and Industrial Espionage
- By: Mara Hvistendahl
- Narrated by: James Lurie, Mara Hvistendahl
- Length: 8 hrs and 5 mins
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A riveting true story of industrial espionage in which a Chinese-born scientist is pursued by the US government for trying to steal trade secrets, by a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in nonfiction....
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Quite disappointing. Anti USA sentiments
- By Adam Webb on 05-05-2020
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I Spy
- By: Tom Marcus
- Narrated by: Georgia Maguire, Jason Langley
- Length: 6 hrs and 30 mins
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Tom Marcus spent years of his life undercover, waging a secret war on the streets against those who want to do us harm....
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Great book
- By Nick on 31-07-2019
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Stakeknife's Dirty War
- How Scappaticci, British Intelligence and Special Branch Ran the IRA
- By: Richard O'Rawe
- Narrated by: Alan Turkington
- Length: 8 hrs and 10 mins
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Freddie Scappaticci was born in 1946 and raised in a deeply nationalist area of Belfast. When the Troubles broke out in 1969, he joined the Provisional IRA, where he quickly rose through the ranks, becoming commander of Belfast in 1984....
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The Accidental Spy
- By: Sean O'Driscoll
- Narrated by: Gerry O'Brien
- Length: 10 hrs and 8 mins
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The gripping real story of the ordinary American man who found himself at the centre of a deadly terrorist organisation - and working for both MI5 and the FBI....
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Soldier Spy
- By: Tom Marcus
- Narrated by: Jason Langley
- Length: 7 hrs and 18 mins
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In the boot were six homemade pipe bombs, all linked to detonate at the same time from a single call on a brand-new pay-as-you-go phone found on the target....
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Fantastic story. Superb narrator.
- By Phil Parker on 26-07-2017
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Into the Lion's Mouth
- The True Story of Dusko Popov: Word War II Spy, Patriot, and the Real-Life Inspiration for James Bond
- By: Larry Loftis
- Narrated by: Eric G. Dove
- Length: 9 hrs and 18 mins
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A double agent for the Abwehr, MI5 and MI6, and the FBI during World War II, Popov seduced numerous women, spoke five languages, and was a crack shot....
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very insightful
- By Kevin on 24-11-2016
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The Scientist and the Spy
- A True Story of China, the FBI, and Industrial Espionage
- By: Mara Hvistendahl
- Narrated by: James Lurie, Mara Hvistendahl
- Length: 8 hrs and 5 mins
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A riveting true story of industrial espionage in which a Chinese-born scientist is pursued by the US government for trying to steal trade secrets, by a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in nonfiction....
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Quite disappointing. Anti USA sentiments
- By Adam Webb on 05-05-2020
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Mossad
- The Greatest Missions of the Israeli Secret Service
- By: Michael Bar-Zohar, Nissim Mishal
- Narrated by: Benjamin Isaac
- Length: 14 hrs and 34 mins
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Authors MichaelBar-Zohar and Nissim Mishal take us behind the closed curtain with riveting, eye-opening, boots-on-the-ground accounts of the most dangerous, most crucial missions....
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best Mossad summary I've heard.
- By Anonymous User on 16-04-2019
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Gideon's Spies
- The Secret History of the Mossad
- By: Gordon Thomas
- Narrated by: Theodore Bikel
- Length: 6 hrs and 2 mins
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In the secret world of spies and covert operations, no other intelligence service continues to be surrounded by myth and mystery as does the Mossad....
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Outstanding Content
- By Tobias on 07-02-2019
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The Main Enemy
- The Inside Story of the CIA's Final Showdown with the KGB
- By: Milton Bearden, James Risen
- Narrated by: Christopher Lane
- Length: 19 hrs and 48 mins
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A landmark collaboration between a thirty-year veteran of the CIA and a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, The Main Enemy is the dramatic inside story of the CIA-KGB spy wars, told through the actions of the men who fought them....
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Poorly written
- By Anonymous User on 12-08-2019
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Spies of No Country
- Secret Lives at the Birth of Israel
- By: Matti Friedman
- Narrated by: Simon Vance
- Length: 6 hrs and 2 mins
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Award-winning writer Matti Friedman's tale of Israel's first spies has all the tropes of an espionage novel, including duplicity, betrayal, disguise, clandestine meetings, the bluff, and the double bluff - but it's all true....
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A truly wonderful story
- By oren thaler on 21-06-2019
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Thatcher's Spy
- My Life as an MI5 Agent Inside Sinn Féin
- By: Willie Carlin
- Narrated by: Matthew Forsythe
- Length: 9 hrs and 43 mins
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In Thatcher's Spy, the Cold War meets Northern Ireland's Dirty War in the remarkable real-life story of a deep under-cover British intelligence agent, a man now doomed forever to look over his shoulder....
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Thatcher Spy
- By Valerie L. on 03-09-2022
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Mafia Spies
- The Inside Story of the CIA, Gangsters, JFK, and Castro
- By: Thomas Maier
- Narrated by: Fred Stella
- Length: 15 hrs and 46 mins
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Mafia Spies is the definitive account of America’s most remarkable espionage plots ever - with CIA agents, mob hitmen, “kompromat” sex, presidential indiscretion, and James Bond-like killing devices together in a top-secret mystery full of surprise twists and deadly intrigue....
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GCHQ
- Centenary Edition
- By: Richard Aldrich
- Narrated by: Peter Noble
- Length: 25 hrs and 48 mins
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GCHQ is the largest and most secretive intelligence organisation in the UK, and has existed for 100 years - but we still know next to nothing about it....
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A Spy in Plain Sight
- The Inside Story of the FBI and Robert Hanssen—America’s Most Damaging Russian Spy
- By: Lis Wiehl
- Narrated by: Lis Wiehl
- Length: 9 hrs and 36 mins
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A legal analyst for NPR, NBC, and CNN, delves into the facts surrounding what has been called the “worst intelligence disaster in US history”: the case of Robert Hanssen—a Russian spy who was embedded in the FBI for two decades....
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Code Name: Lise
- The True Story of the Woman Who Became WWII's Most Highly Decorated Spy
- By: Larry Loftis
- Narrated by: Kate Reading
- Length: 9 hrs and 59 mins
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From New York Times and international best-selling author comes the extraordinary true story of Odette Sansom, the British spy who operated in occupied France and fell in love with her commanding officer during World War II....
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interesting listen, great story
- By Anonymous User on 04-12-2019
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MI6
- Life and Death in the British Secret Service
- By: Gordon Corera
- Narrated by: Gordon Corera
- Length: 15 hrs and 51 mins
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The British Secret Service has been cloaked in secrecy and shrouded in myth since it was created 100 years ago. MI6 provides a unique and unprecedented insight into this secret world and the reality that lies behind the fiction....
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Read at You
- By S.Attenborough on 03-04-2023
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The Good Assassin
- How a Mossad Agent and a Band of Survivors Hunted Down the Butcher of Latvia
- By: Stephan Talty
- Narrated by: Stefan Rudnicki
- Length: 9 hrs and 9 mins
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The untold story of an Israeli spy’s epic journey to bring the notorious Butcher of Latvia to justice - a case that altered the fates of all ex-Nazis....
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Unbelievable
- By Corey on 19-12-2022
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The Gemstone File
- By: Jim Keith
- Narrated by: Jack Chekijian
- Length: 7 hrs and 42 mins
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Since 1975, a privately circulated document has been the subject of much discussion and debate among researchers into the dark realms of political conspiracy....
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JFK: The Smoking Gun
- By: Colin McLaren
- Narrated by: Grant Cartwright
- Length: 10 hrs and 11 mins
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JFK: The Smoking Gun proves, once and for all, who killed the President. And the answer is far more shocking than any fanciful conspiracy could ever be....
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Its Good But...
- By Mike A on 01-02-2024
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The Operators
- On the Streets with Britain's Most Secret Service
- By: James Rennie
- Narrated by: Alex Hyde-White
- Length: 9 hrs and 37 mins
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Few outside the security services have heard of 14 Company. As deadly as the SAS yet more secret, the operators of 14 Company are Britain's most effective weapon against international terrorism....
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Mostly good, but not great.
- By Amazon Customer on 04-02-2024
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Tell Me What You See
- Remote Viewing Cases from the World’s Premier Psychic Spy
- By: Major Ed Dames, Joel Harry Newman
- Narrated by: Stephen Bowlby
- Length: 8 hrs and 43 mins
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Decorated army officer Major Ed Dames tells the shocking true story of his time as operations and training officer for the top-secret Psychic Intelligence Unit....
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One for your must listen list.
- By OBE WAN on 05-02-2024
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Undercover War
- By: Harry McCallion
- Narrated by: Colin Mace
- Length: 7 hrs and 58 mins
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A blistering account of the history of Britain's war against the IRA between 1970 and 1998....
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Me
- By Amazon Customer on 16-02-2024
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Fishers of Men
- The Gripping True Story of a British Undercover Agent in Northern Ireland
- By: Rob Lewis
- Narrated by: Peter Noble
- Length: 8 hrs and 17 mins
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Fishers of Men is the true account of secret operations in Northern Ireland carried out by the British Army's most clandestine unit....
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Slow going
- By Anonymous User on 04-05-2023
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Kim Philby
- The Unknown Story of the KGB's Master-Spy
- By: Tim Milne
- Narrated by: Liam Tobin
- Length: 6 hrs and 41 mins
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Kim Philby, the so-called Third Man in the Cambridge spy ring, was the Cold War's most infamous traitor, a Soviet spy at the heart of British intelligence....
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Danger Close
- Domestic Extremist Threat #1 Comes Clean
- By: Patrick Byrne
- Narrated by: Stephen Floyd
- Length: 4 hrs and 44 mins
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A narrative seamlessly blending entrepreneurial prowess with covert government operations.
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The Good Spy
- The Life and Death of Robert Ames
- By: Kai Bird
- Narrated by: René Ruiz
- Length: 14 hrs and 47 mins
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The Good Spy is Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer Kai Bird’s compelling portrait of the remarkable life and death of one of the most important operatives in CIA history....
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Fantastic
- By Anonymous User on 14-02-2023
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In True Face
- A Woman's Life in the CIA, Unmasked
- By: Jonna Mendez
- Narrated by: Barbara Benjamin-Creel
- Length: 8 hrs and 41 mins
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Jonna Hiestand Mendez began her CIA career as a “contract wife” performing secretarial duties for the CIA as a convenience to her husband, a young officer stationed in Europe....
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No Shadows in the Desert
- Murder, Espionage, Vengeance, and the Untold Story of the Destruction of ISIS
- By: Samuel M. Katz
- Narrated by: Sean Patrick Hopkins
- Length: 10 hrs and 42 mins
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No Shadows in the Desert reveals the untold story of the behind-the-scenes fight against ISIS - one coordinated by heads of state and ultimately fought in the alleyways and open deserts of the Middle Eastern battlefield by spies and soldiers....
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Credit Where It's Due
- By Blue Mercedes on 07-02-2021
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A Pretext for War
- 9/11, Iraq, and the Abuse of America's Intelligence Agencies
- By: James Bamford
- Narrated by: Robertson Dean
- Length: 11 hrs and 52 mins
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This book says outright what many have merely hinted at: that President George W. Bush knowingly misused the findings of the erroneous and incompetent U.S. intelligence community....
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Beverly Hills Spy
- The Double-Agent War Hero Who Helped Japan Attack Pearl Harbor
- By: Ronald Drabkin
- Narrated by: Sam Dewhurst-Phillips
- Length: 10 hrs and 12 mins
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Ronald Drabkin tells the truly unbelievable and untold story of Frederick Rutland—a debonair British WWI hero, flying ace, fixture of Los Angeles society, and friend of Golden Age Hollywood stars—who flipped to become a spy for Japan in the lead-up to the attack on Pearl Harbor....
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The Traitor of Arnhem
- WWII’s Greatest Betrayal and the Moment That Changed History Forever
- By: Robert Verkaik
- Narrated by: Jonathan Keeble
- Length: 10 hrs and 24 mins
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Following the Western Allies' overwhelming victory on D-Day, Churchill, Roosevelt and Stalin are all prepared to shape the future, and Operation Market Garden is Britain's attempt to beat the Russians to Berlin and be the first to help craft the new world order. With 10,000 men dropped into Arnhem and another 20,000 in Grave, the British are set to secure the area and declare victory. However, Dutch resistance hero Christian Lindemans has other plans. Lindemans is determined to help the Germans gain the lead in the war and begins to dismantle the operation from within.
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Code Name Blue Wren
- By: Jim Popkin
- Narrated by: Jim Popkin
- Length: 10 hrs and 24 mins
- Unabridged
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Just days after the 9-11 attacks, a senior Pentagon analyst eased her red Toyota Echo into traffic and headed to work. She never saw the undercover cars tracking her every turn. As she settled into her cubicle on the 6th floor of the Defense Intelligence Agency in Washington, FBI Agents and twitchy DIA officers were hiding in nearby offices. For this was the day that Ana Montes—the US Intelligence Community superstar who had just won a prestigious fellowship at the CIA—was to be arrested and publicly exposed as a secret agent for Cuba.
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Danger Close
- Domestic Extremist Threat #1 Comes Clean
- By: Patrick Byrne
- Narrated by: Stephen Floyd
- Length: 4 hrs and 44 mins
- Unabridged
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A narrative seamlessly blending entrepreneurial prowess with covert government operations. As the visionary founder of Overstock.com, Byrne, once lauded as the “National Entrepreneur of the Year 2011” and hailed as the “Messiah of Bitcoin,” reveals an astonishing twist in August 2019—his role as a secret operative for the U.S. Government. This memoir lays bare Byrne’s integral involvement in the “Russian Collusion Delusion” and the Clinton Investigation, exposing them as deceptive maneuvers orchestrated on an unsuspecting public.
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Sex, Spies and Scandal
- The John Vassall Affair
- By: Alex Grant
- Narrated by: Gordon Griffin
- Length: 18 hrs and 20 mins
- Unabridged
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Sex, Spies and Scandal is the story of John Vassall, a civil servant who was unmasked as a Soviet spy in 1962. Having been photographed in compromising positions while working at the British embassy in Moscow in 1954, Vassall was blackmailed into handing over secrets from the British Admiralty to his Soviet handlers, both in Moscow and in London, for more than seven years.
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Four Shots in the Night
- A True Story of Spies, Murder, and Justice in Northern Ireland
- By: Henry Hemming
- Narrated by: Jamie Parker, Henry Hemming
- Length: 9 hrs and 4 mins
- Unabridged
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The search for justice for this one man's death—his body found in broad daylight, with tape over his eyes, an undisguised hit—would deliver more than the truth. It exposed his status as an informant and led to protests, campaigns, far-reaching changes to British law, a historic ruling from a senior judicial body, a ground-breaking police investigation, and bitter condemnation from a US Congressional commission.
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Undercover Copper
- One Woman on the Track of Dangerous Criminals
- By: Danni Brooke
- Narrated by: Emma Carter
- Length: 7 hrs and 59 mins
- Unabridged
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For over a decade, Danni Brooke was one of the most effective female undercover cops in the UK, one of a very small number of women in the Met’s elite unit. She was so successful at taking down criminals she was seconded to forces around the country. Whether she was infiltrating organized crime gangs or disrupting drug supply lines, Danni played the innocent Essex girl, fooling even the most suspicious villains, using her quick wits to keep her out of trouble. She loved the job, but the pressures of her work, and trying to balance the long hours with being a mother, were to take a toll.
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The Traitor of Arnhem
- WWII’s Greatest Betrayal and the Moment That Changed History Forever
- By: Robert Verkaik
- Narrated by: Jonathan Keeble
- Length: 10 hrs and 24 mins
- Unabridged
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Following the Western Allies' overwhelming victory on D-Day, Churchill, Roosevelt and Stalin are all prepared to shape the future, and Operation Market Garden is Britain's attempt to beat the Russians to Berlin and be the first to help craft the new world order. With 10,000 men dropped into Arnhem and another 20,000 in Grave, the British are set to secure the area and declare victory. However, Dutch resistance hero Christian Lindemans has other plans. Lindemans is determined to help the Germans gain the lead in the war and begins to dismantle the operation from within.
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Code Name Blue Wren
- By: Jim Popkin
- Narrated by: Jim Popkin
- Length: 10 hrs and 24 mins
- Unabridged
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Just days after the 9-11 attacks, a senior Pentagon analyst eased her red Toyota Echo into traffic and headed to work. She never saw the undercover cars tracking her every turn. As she settled into her cubicle on the 6th floor of the Defense Intelligence Agency in Washington, FBI Agents and twitchy DIA officers were hiding in nearby offices. For this was the day that Ana Montes—the US Intelligence Community superstar who had just won a prestigious fellowship at the CIA—was to be arrested and publicly exposed as a secret agent for Cuba.
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Danger Close
- Domestic Extremist Threat #1 Comes Clean
- By: Patrick Byrne
- Narrated by: Stephen Floyd
- Length: 4 hrs and 44 mins
- Unabridged
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A narrative seamlessly blending entrepreneurial prowess with covert government operations. As the visionary founder of Overstock.com, Byrne, once lauded as the “National Entrepreneur of the Year 2011” and hailed as the “Messiah of Bitcoin,” reveals an astonishing twist in August 2019—his role as a secret operative for the U.S. Government. This memoir lays bare Byrne’s integral involvement in the “Russian Collusion Delusion” and the Clinton Investigation, exposing them as deceptive maneuvers orchestrated on an unsuspecting public.
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Sex, Spies and Scandal
- The John Vassall Affair
- By: Alex Grant
- Narrated by: Gordon Griffin
- Length: 18 hrs and 20 mins
- Unabridged
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Sex, Spies and Scandal is the story of John Vassall, a civil servant who was unmasked as a Soviet spy in 1962. Having been photographed in compromising positions while working at the British embassy in Moscow in 1954, Vassall was blackmailed into handing over secrets from the British Admiralty to his Soviet handlers, both in Moscow and in London, for more than seven years.
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Four Shots in the Night
- A True Story of Spies, Murder, and Justice in Northern Ireland
- By: Henry Hemming
- Narrated by: Jamie Parker, Henry Hemming
- Length: 9 hrs and 4 mins
- Unabridged
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The search for justice for this one man's death—his body found in broad daylight, with tape over his eyes, an undisguised hit—would deliver more than the truth. It exposed his status as an informant and led to protests, campaigns, far-reaching changes to British law, a historic ruling from a senior judicial body, a ground-breaking police investigation, and bitter condemnation from a US Congressional commission.
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Undercover Copper
- One Woman on the Track of Dangerous Criminals
- By: Danni Brooke
- Narrated by: Emma Carter
- Length: 7 hrs and 59 mins
- Unabridged
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For over a decade, Danni Brooke was one of the most effective female undercover cops in the UK, one of a very small number of women in the Met’s elite unit. She was so successful at taking down criminals she was seconded to forces around the country. Whether she was infiltrating organized crime gangs or disrupting drug supply lines, Danni played the innocent Essex girl, fooling even the most suspicious villains, using her quick wits to keep her out of trouble. She loved the job, but the pressures of her work, and trying to balance the long hours with being a mother, were to take a toll.