Editing Spy fiction (section)

====Writers on Cold War era: 1945–1991====
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! Author(s) !! Title !! Publisher !! Date !! Notes
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| [[Stephen E. Ambrose|Ambrose, Stephen E.]]|| ''Ike's Spies: Eisenhower and the Intelligence Establishment''|| — || 1981– || —
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| [[Christopher Andrew (historian)|Andrew, Christopher]] and [[Vasili Mitrokhin]] || ''The Sword and the Shield: The [[Mitrokhin Archive]] and the Secret History of the KGB'' || Basic Books || 1991, 2005 || {{ISBN|0-465-00311-7}}
|-
| Andrew, Christopher, and Oleg Gordievsky || ''KGB: The Inside Story of Its Foreign Operations from Lenin to Gorbachev'' || — || 1990 || —
|-
| Aronoff, Myron J. || ''The Spy Novels of John Le Carré: Balancing Ethics and Politics'' || — || 1999 || —
|-
| [[Richard M. Bissell Jr.|Bissell, Richard]] || ''Reflections of a Cold Warrior: From Yalta to the Bay of Pigs'' || — || 1996 || —
|-
| [[Lori Lyn Bogle|Bogle, Lori]], ed. || ''Cold War Espionage and Spying'' || — || 2001– || essays
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| Christopher Andrew and Vasili Mitrokhin || ''The World Was Going Our Way: The KGB and the Battle for the Third World'' || — || — || —
|-
| Christopher Andrew and Vasili Mitrokhin ||  ''The Mitrokhin Archive: The KGB in Europe and the West'' || Gardners Books  || 2000 || {{ISBN|978-0-14-028487-4}}
|-
| Colella, Jim || ''My Life as an Italian Mafioso Spy'' || — || 2000 || —
|-
| Craig, R. Bruce || ''Treasonable Doubt: The Harry Dexter Spy Case'' || University Press of Kansas || 2004 || {{ISBN|978-0-7006-1311-3}}
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| [[Stephen Dorril|Dorril, Stephen]] || ''MI6: Inside the Covert World of Her Majesty's Secret Intelligence Service'' || — || 2000 || —
|-
| Dziak, John J. || ''Chekisty: A History of the KGB'' || — || 1988 || —
|-
| [[Robert Gates|Gates, Robert M.]] || ''From The Shadows: The Ultimate Insider's Story of Five Presidents And How They Won The Cold War'' || — || 1997 || —
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| Frost, Mike and Michel Gratton || ''Spyworld: Inside the Canadian and American Intelligence Establishments'' || Doubleday Canada || 1994 || —
|-
| [[John Earl Haynes|Haynes, John Earl]], and [[Harvey Klehr]] || ''Venona: Decoding Soviet Espionage in America'' || — || 1999 || —
|-
| [[Richard Helms|Helms, Richard]] || ''A Look over My Shoulder: A Life in the Central Intelligence Agency'' || — || 2003 || —
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| Koehler, John O. || ''Stasi: The Untold Story of the East German Secret Police'' || — || 1999 || —
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| [[Joseph E. Persico|Persico, Joseph]] || ''Casey: The Lives and Secrets of William J. Casey-From the OSS to the CIA'' || — || 1991 || —
|-
| [[David Murphy (CIA)|Murphy]], David E., [[Sergei Kondrashev|Sergei A. Kondrashev]], and George Bailey || ''Battleground Berlin: CIA vs. KGB in the Cold War'' || — || 1997 || —
|-
| Prados, John || ''Presidents' Secret Wars: CIA and Pentagon Covert Operations Since World War II'' || — || 1996 || —
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| Rositzke, Harry. || ''The CIA's Secret Operations: Espionage, Counterespionage, and Covert Action''|| — || 1988 || —
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| [[James Srodes|Srodes, James]] || ''Allen Dulles: Master of Spies'' || Regnery || 2000 || CIA head to 1961
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| Sontag Sherry, and [[Christopher Drew (journalist)|Christopher Drew]]|| ''[[Blind Man's Bluff: The Untold Story of American Submarine Espionage]]'' || Harper || 1998 || —
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||| ''Encyclopedia of Cold War Espionage, Spies and Secret Operations'' || Greenwood Press{{ISBN?}} || 2004 || —
|}

* Anderson, Nicholas  ''NOC''  Enigma Books 2009 – Post-Cold War era
* [[Ishmael Jones]] ''The Human Factor: Inside the CIA's Dysfunctional Intelligence Culture'', Encounter Books 2008, rev. 2010

=====Writers of other nationalities=====
* [[Michael Ross (Mossad officer)|Michael Ross]], ''The Volunteer: The Incredible True Story of an Israeli Spy on the Trail of International Terrorists'' McClelland & Stewart 2007, rev. 2008
* Jean-Marie Thiébaud, ''Dictionnaire Encyclopédique International des Abréviations, Singles et Acronyms, Armée et armament, Gendarmerie, Police, Services de renseignement et Services secrets français et étrangers, Espionage, Counterespionage, Services de Secours, Organisations révolutionnaires et terrorists'', Paris, L'Harmattan, 2015, 827 pFrench journalist [[Gérard de Villiers]] began to write his ''SAS'' series in 1965. The franchise now extends to 200 titles and 150 million books.
* [[Julian Semyonov]] was an influential spy novelist, writing in the [[Eastern Bloc]], whose range of novels and novel series featured a [[White Movement|White Russian]] spy in the [[Soviet Union|USSR]]; [[Stierlitz|Max Otto von Stierlitz]], a Soviet [[Mole (espionage)|mole]] in the Nazi High Command, and [[Felix Dzerzhinsky]], founder of the [[Cheka]]. In his novels, Semyonov covered much Soviet intelligence history, ranging from the Russian Civil War (1917–1923), through the [[World War II|Great Patriotic War]] (1941–45), to the Russo–American Cold War (1945–91).
* Swedish author [[Jan Guillou]] also began to write his ''[[Coq Rouge (novel)|Coq Rouge]]'' series, featuring Swedish spy Carl Hamilton, during this period, beginning in 1986.