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Director: Guy Moshe | 11 September 2026
Disillusioned by the end of the war in Afghanistan, a group of disgraced, war torn ex-CIA operators set out to Tehran to take down a life changing score.
Ben Macintyre | Crown | 15 September 2026
In 1981, KGB Major Vladimir Kuzichkin, codenamed “Redwood,” was the best Soviet officer in Iran, running spies in the wake of the Islamic revolution and working with a hidden network of Iranian communists to undermine the new regime. But Kuzichkin had a problem, a sexual secret that, if revealed, would humiliate him with his colleagues, cost him his job, and send him into exile. Desperate for a solution, he reached out to the only place he believed could help: Britain’s MI6.
So begins one of the most astounding true spy stories of the Cold War, set against the terrifying prospect of nuclear armageddon. Taking readers through shadowy back alleys of Tehran, across bloody streets and into cloistered intelligence offices, Ben Macintyre unfolds a world in turmoil, where no one’s motive is what it seems, and exposure means death. As Kuzichkin helps the Soviet leadership plot an overthrow of the Ayatollah’s fledgling regime—and the American government secretly contemplates a nuclear response if they do—it falls on MI6’s resourceful young undercover officer Ian McCredie to spirit Kuzichkin’s vital information back to the West. But when both Iranian intelligence and the KGB close in on the Russian double-agent, McCredie must design an improbable high-stakes escape plan for Kuzichkin, in which failure is almost certain and the direction of the Cold War hangs in the balance.
This is the gripping tale of one man’s courage, and its extraordinary unintended consequences that still shape our world today. It’s about a moving friendship between spies on opposite sides of the global conflict; about marriage, loyalty, and betrayal. Drawing on never-before-seen archival material and revealing interviews with the participants, Redwood plunges readers back into the world of The Spy and the Traitor, where the fate of millions turns on the split-second decisions of spies under pressure.
Trine Engholm Michelsen | Helion and Company | 3 September 2026
When German troops crossed the Danish border on 9 April 1940, the small kingdom was given a chilling bargain: submit without a fight and retain its façade of sovereignty – or face destruction. Most Danes chose an uneasy compromise. Jutta Graae chose something far more dangerous.
Code-named ‘The Grand Duchess’ in occupied Copenhagen, ‘Haddock’ in London and ‘The Scarlet Pimpernel’ in Stockholm, Graae built secret bridges to Churchill’s Britain, funnelling intelligence, messages and men across borders bristling with Nazi power. From her respectable bank office and well-laid dinner tables, she helped turn Denmark in Allied eyes from Hitler’s hostage to a trusted partner – all the while knowing that one careless word could mean torture and death not only for herself but for those she loved.
Drawing on forgotten and newly opened archives, Trine Engholm Michelsen brings to light the hidden life of a woman who knew almost everything yet spoke of none of it. Spanning the six years from 1939 to 1945, Codename: Grand Duchess plunges the reader into a world of clandestine meetings, coded messages and narrow escapes – and restores Jutta Graae to her rightful place as one of the great, unsung heroines of the Second World War.
David Wise | Houghton Mifflin Harcourt | 1 January 2011
For decades, while America obsessed over Soviet spies, China quietly penetrated the highest levels of government. Now, for the first time, based on numerous interviews with key insiders at the FBI and CIA as well as with Chinese agents and people close to them, David Wise tells the full story of Chinas many victories and defeats in its American spy wars.Two key cases interweave throughout: Katrina Leung, code-named Parlor Maid, worked for the FBI for years, even after she became a secret double agent for China, aided by love affairs with both of her FBI handlers. Here, too, is the inside story of the case, code-named Tiger Trap, of a key Chinese-American scientist suspected of stealing nuclear weapons secrets. These two cases led to many others, involving famous names from Wen Ho Lee to Richard Nixon, stunning national security leaks, and sophisticated cyberspying. The story takes us up to the present, with a West Coast spy ring whose members were sentenced in 2010.