NPR's Mary Louise Kelly speaks with James Wolff, the pseudonym of a former British intelligence officer who now writes about them in spy novels. His latest book is Spies and Other Gods.

A classic espionage novel by John le Carré has been ranked the best spy book of all time by readers, topping a list filled ...

Four decades since Tom Clancy's ground-breaking debut espionage thriller The Hunt For Red October was dominating bestseller lists around the world, the spy story is enjoying a renaissance thanks to a ...

The journalist and podcaster chooses his top spy novels by spies. He will be speaking at the Chalke History Festival on 27 June about his new book, "The Spy in the Archive: How One Man Tried to Kill ...

From Paris to Botswana, these fiction and nonfiction books feature secret agents who include a child and Julia Child.

The critical reception of John le Carre’s first work of fiction was mixed and typically British: he was flogged. “When I was about 10 or 11,” he recalls, “I wrote a story about a jockey who loaded his ...

Ava Glass started every London weekday the same way. In the entrance to her office building, she would place her belongings on an airport-style conveyor belt to be x-rayed. Then she’d enter one of ten ...

Author and Untapped New York founder Michelle Young will be in conversation with Justin Rivers about her new book The Art Spy: The Extraordinary Untold Tale of WWII Resistance Hero Rose Valland, ...