• Spy books that spies read and sometimes wrote themselves
• Thrillers that make it weird (and makes it better)
• Cold War mysteries
• The insanity of the Cold War
• World-weary agents of espionage
• Secrets, lies, deception and double lives
• Russian espionage
• British and Irish history with a wide range of topics
• Action-adventure books that are not crime thrillers
• A historian's view about spies
• Alternate/secret histories that blew my mind
• Soviet espionage
• Cold-War Soviet espionage in America and abroad
• Good and evil without being cloying or preachy
• Guy Burgess (Cambridge Spy Ring)
• Spy thrillers by former members of MI6
• Spies in the Middle East
• Non-fiction and fiction Cold War spies
• Cold War espionage with women spies and heroines