Read reviews from world’s largest community for readers. 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 – a man who, had he lived, might have helped heal the rift between Arabs and the West. Born to an American mother and a famous Indian musician and spiritual teacher, Noor Inayat Khan almost had a fairytale life growing up in France. The Catcher Was a Spy: The Mysterious Life of Moe Berg is a 1994 biography written by Nicholas Dawidoff about a major league baseball player who also worked for the Office of Strategic Services, the forerunner of the Central Intelligence Agency. — Irina Culic, American Ethnologist "My Life as a Spy is Verdery’s masterpiece. The true life of Noor Inayat Khan is the stuff legends are made of. The Spy is the story of Mata Hari, told first in her voice and then from the point of view of one of her male admirers. Brooklyn is sent to go undercover at spy school to bring down someone who’s stealing information. Christopher Hudson from the Daily Mail newspaper commented, Its one of the most inspirational stories of World War II; reading this book is like watching a butterfly trapped in a net. A fascinating and inspiring book about a most beautiful being. -- too much information. Woodhead's book, MY LIFE AS A SPY, was a much more personal kind of record, a story of a young British lad and how he became a man. He prefers and excels at metaphorical stories. On April 18, 1983, a bomb exploded outside the American Embassy in Beirut, killing 63 people. My Life as a Spy will teach anthropology, sociology, and history students much about methodology, and it is exemplary in exposing the dilemmas inherent in that methodology." . "I Spy: My Life in MI 5" takes us into the real world of spying from the perspective of Tom Marcus whose life inside MI 5 gives him a unique perspective of that murky world.

Read 5 reviews from the world's largest community for readers. It makes for compelling reading, wrote novelist, Khushwant Singh about Spy Princess. This is the absolutely riveting story of a modern day spy, a real life James Bond, although, as she notes, Bond is ridiculous; in the real world of espionage, "one street chase and my cover is blown for life." I hope it doesn't sound strange, but I thought it read like you were constantly wiping a steamed-up window, so you can what was happening more clearly.
Enter a Spy book. 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 – a man who, had he lived, might have helped heal the rift between Arabs and the West. . 'A Spy's Life', by Henry Porter is a wonderfully well-paced spy story, that gradually reveals its many intreguing secrets.

Former CIA Agent Reveals What It's Really Like to Be a Spy . Dawidoff's research is impressive in its depth and scope, although there were times when I thought TMI! Both for story's participants and for us, the readers. Rule #1: Learn to live a lie. I've always been a fan of spy stories, with John Le Carre probably my favourite story teller of the genre. Christopher Hudson from the Daily Mail newspaper commented, Its one of the most inspirational stories of World War II; reading this book is like watching a butterfly trapped in a net.