Defend the Realm: The Authorized History of MI5

5 best books like Defend the Realm: The Authorized History of MI5 (Christopher M. Andrew): Legacy of Ashes: The History of the CIA, The Secret History of MI6, A Dream About Lightning Bugs: A Life of Music and Cheap Lessons, Real Tigers, On Murder Considered as One of the Fine Arts

Legacy of Ashes: The History of the CIA

Author

Tim Weiner

For the last sixty years, the CIA has managed to maintain a formidable reputation in spite of its terrible record, burying its blunders in top-secret archives. Its mission was to know the world. When it did not succeed, it set out to change the world. Its failures have handed us, in the words of President...

The Secret History of MI6

Author	Keith Jeffery
ISBN	1594202745

The authorized history of the world's oldest foreign intelligence service, drawing on hitherto secret documents. Britain's Secret Intelligence Service (MI6) was born a century ago amid fears of the rising power of other countries, especially Germany. The next 40 years saw MI6 taking an increasingly...

A Dream About Lightning Bugs: A Life of Music and Cheap Lessons

Author	Ben Folds
ISBN	1984817272

Ben Folds is a celebrated American singer-songwriter, beloved for songs such as "Brick," "You Don't Know Me," "Rockin' the Suburbs," and "The Luckiest," and is the former frontman of the alternative rock band Ben Folds Five. But Folds will be the first to tell you he's an unconventional icon, more normcore...

Real Tigers

Author	Mick Herron
ISBN	1616956127

London’s Slough House is where disgraced MI5 operatives are reassigned to spend the rest of their spy careers pushing paper. But when one of these “slow horses” is kidnapped by a former soldier bent on revenge, the agents must breach the defenses of Regent’s Park to steal valuable intel in exchange...

On Murder Considered as One of the Fine Arts

Author	Thomas de Quincey
ISBN	0141397888

'People begin to see that something more goes to the composition of a fine murder than two blockheads to kill and be killed - a knife - a purse - and a dark lane...'

In this provocative and blackly funny essay, Thomas de Quincey considers murder in a purely aesthetic light and explains how practically...