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Across Spies & Spying, Espionage, True Crime, and Juvenile Nonfiction — 24 books that belong on the same shelf as Official Spy’s Handbook by Various.

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Handpicked for thematic and literary overlap — the best shelf companions to Official Spy’s Handbook.

The Story of Spying — Rob Lloyd Jones

The Story of Spying

Rob Lloyd Jones

Themes: Spies & Spying • Espionage • True Crime

Bonhoeffer Student Edition Pastor, Martyr, Prophet, Spy — Eric Metaxas

Bonhoeffer Student Edition Pastor, Martyr, Prophet, Spy

Themes: Espionage • True Crime • Juvenile Nonfiction

Point Blank — Anthony Horowitz

Anthony Horowitz

Themes: Spies & Spying • Espionage

Also Known As — Robin Benway

Themes: Spies & Spying • Espionage

The Recruit — Robert Muchamore

Robert Muchamore

Themes: Spies & Spying • Espionage

Chameleon in the Shadow of Death — Mr H

Chameleon in the Shadow of Death

Themes: Espionage • True Crime

The First Counterspy Larry Haas, Bell Aircraft, and the FBI’s Attempt to Capture a Soviet Mole — Kay Haas

The First Counterspy Larry Haas, Bell Aircraft, and the FBI’s Attempt to Capture a Soviet Mole

Themes: Espionage • True Crime

A Very English Scandal Sex, Lies and a Murder Plot at the Heart of the Establishment — John Preston

A Very English Scandal Sex, Lies and a Murder Plot at the Heart of the Establishment

Themes: Espionage • True Crime

Code Name: Lise The True Story of the Woman Who Became WWII’s Most Highly Decorated Spy — Larry Loftis

Code Name: Lise The True Story of the Woman Who Became WWII’s Most Highly Decorated Spy

Themes: Espionage • True Crime

Intrepid’s Last Case — William Stevenson

Intrepid’s Last Case

William Stevenson

Themes: Espionage • True Crime

The Spymaster of Baghdad A True Story of Bravery, Family, and Patriotism in the Battle Against ISIS — Margaret Coker

The Spymaster of Baghdad A True Story of Bravery, Family, and Patriotism in the Battle Against ISIS

Themes: Espionage • True Crime

America’s First Spy The Tragic Heroism of Frank Wisner — George Cristian Maior

America’s First Spy The Tragic Heroism of Frank Wisner

George Cristian Maior

Themes: Espionage • True Crime

Spies and Traitors Kim Philby, James Angleton and the Betrayal That Would Shape the Cold War — Michael Holzman

Spies and Traitors Kim Philby, James Angleton and the Betrayal That Would Shape the Cold War

Michael Holzman

Themes: Espionage • True Crime

Double Cross in Cairo The True Story of the Spy who Turned the Tide of War in the Middle East — Nigel West

Double Cross in Cairo The True Story of the Spy who Turned the Tide of War in the Middle East

Themes: Espionage • True Crime

The Nuclear Jihadist The True Story of the Man who Sold the World’s Most Dangerous Secrets– and how We Could Have Stopped Him — Douglas Frantz

The Nuclear Jihadist The True Story of the Man who Sold the World’s Most Dangerous Secrets– and how We Could Have Stopped Him

Themes: Espionage • True Crime

Rewriting Hisstory A Fifty-Year Journey to Uncover the Truth About Alger Hiss — Jeff Kisseloff

Rewriting Hisstory A Fifty-Year Journey to Uncover the Truth About Alger Hiss

Themes: Espionage • True Crime

13 WWII Women Spies Who Died In The Fight Against Fascism — ARIANNE. COUSTEAU

13 WWII Women Spies Who Died In The Fight Against Fascism

ARIANNE. COUSTEAU

Themes: Espionage • True Crime

Surveillance and Spies in the Civil War Exposing Confederate Conspiracies in America’s Heartland — Stephen E. Towne

Surveillance and Spies in the Civil War Exposing Confederate Conspiracies in America’s Heartland

Stephen E. Towne

Themes: Espionage • True Crime

Churchill’s Spy Files Mi5’s Top-Secret Wartime Reports — Nigel West

Churchill’s Spy Files Mi5’s Top-Secret Wartime Reports

Themes: Espionage • True Crime

An Enemy of the Crown The British Secret Service Campaign Against Charles Haughey — David Burke

An Enemy of the Crown The British Secret Service Campaign Against Charles Haughey

Themes: Espionage • True Crime

Operation Mincemeat The True Spy Story That Changed the Course of World War II — Ben Macintyre

Operation Mincemeat The True Spy Story That Changed the Course of World War II

Themes: Espionage • True Crime

The Menendez Brothers A Riveting Exploration of Family Dysfunction, Hidden Abuse, and the Legal Fight That Changed American Perceptions of Justice — CATRINA. O. FAITH

The Menendez Brothers A Riveting Exploration of Family Dysfunction, Hidden Abuse, and the Legal Fight That Changed American Perceptions of Justice

CATRINA. O. FAITH

Themes: Espionage • True Crime

The CIA An Imperial History — Hugh Wilford

The CIA An Imperial History

Themes: Espionage • True Crime

Ghosts of Honolulu A Japanese Spy, a Japanese American Spy Hunter, and the Untold Story of Pearl Harbor — Mark Harmon

Ghosts of Honolulu A Japanese Spy, a Japanese American Spy Hunter, and the Untold Story of Pearl Harbor

Themes: Espionage • True Crime

The 24 books on this list are tied together by themes of Spies & Spying, Espionage, True Crime — the same threads that run through Official Spy’s Handbook by Various. Among the authors featured: Rob Lloyd Jones, Eric Metaxas, Anthony Horowitz, Robin Benway, and others.

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