Introduction by Michael Smith
Joseph Conrad, The Secret Agent [Extract]
Erskine Childers, Riddle of the Sands [Extract]
William Le Queux, Spies of the Kaiser [Extract]
Basil Thomson, Queer People [Extract – On Spy Scares]
William Melville, Memoirs of life with early 20th century British Intelligence and then MI5 [National Archives]
John Buchan, Greenmantle [Extract]
HC Bywater and HC Ferraby, Strange Intelligence [Extract]
Basil Thomson, Queer People 2 [Extract on Mata Hari]
Captain Henry Landau, All’s Fair [Extract on the British agent inside Great Germany, Karl Krüger]
Karl Krüger, Report on Aftermath of Jutland [National Archives]
Somerset Maugham, Ashenden [Extract]
Redmond Cafferata, Instructions to Agents going into Germany [Extract from SIX]
Pierre-Marie Cavrois O'Caffrey, Intelligence report on potential bombing target in Belgium [National Archives]
Compton Mackenzie, Greek Memories [Extract]
JC Lawson, Tales of Aegean Intrigue [Extract]
Norman Dewhurst, Norman Dewhurst MC [Extract]
George Hill, Go Spy the Land [Extract]
John Dymoke Scale, Personal Memoir of Secret Service operations in Romania [Family Papers]
John Merrett and Sir Paul Dukes, Documents describing Merrett’s role in post-Revolution Petrograd [National Archives]
Sir Paul Dukes, Red Morrow [Extract]
Sidney Reilly, Ace of Spies [Extract]
Hubert Pollack, Memoir of Frank Foley’s role in saving Jews in Germany [Yad Vashem document]
Ian Fleming, On his own role as Personal Assistant to the Director of Naval Intelligence and on saving MI6 for Bond. [National Archives]
John Godfrey on Sidney Cotton [National Archives]
Airey Neave, Little Cyclone [Extract]
Mieczyslaw Zygfryd Slowikowski, Codename Rygor [Extract]
Richard Heslop, Xavier [Extract]
Maurice Buckmaster, They Fought Alone [Extract]
Michael Smith, The Bletchley Park Codebreakers [Extract on Double Cross Operation]
Juan Pujol Garcia, Operation Garbo [Extract]
Kenneth Benton, Recruitment of Double Agent Treasure [National Archives]
F.F.E. Yeo-Thomas on his arrest by the Gestapo and incarceration in Buchenwald [National Archives]
Bob Steers, Account of his MI6 operations in immediate post-war Berlin [Personal archives]
John le Carre, Call For The Dead [Permission being sought]
Ian Milne, Kim Philby [Extract]
Kim Philby, How I was recruited to work for Moscow [KGB Archives]
Graham Greene, The Human Factor [Extract] [Permission being sought]
Guy Burgess, Report to Moscow [KGB Archives]
Matthew Dunn, To select extract from one of his books [Permission Granted]
Alan Judd, Uncommon Enemy [Extract] [Permission being sought]
Anthony Blunt, Series of MI5 Cartoons Showing How to Tail a Spy, which Blunt passed to the KGB [KGB Archives] [You may remember they were in The Spying Game, the rights for which I have removed from Tummons’s clutches!]