# Useful Spy Books

DevFeed: [Useful Spy Books](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/useful-spy-books-36577.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://berthub.eu/articles/posts/useful-spy-books/>)

Published: 2021-04-18T12:11:21Z

Content type: article

Language: en

Sources: [Bert Hubert's writings](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/bert-hubert-s-writings.md>)

Topics: [intelligence](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/intelligence.md>), [national security](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/national-security.md>), [Security](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/security.md>), [trust](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/trust.md>)

Tags: [books](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/books.md>), [intelligence](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/intelligence.md>), [national-security](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/national-security.md>), [opinion](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/opinion.md>), [reading](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/reading.md>)

## AI overview

An English-language reading guide recommending books about espionage and intelligence agencies. It discusses the value and limitations of insider accounts, official histories, fiction, and works subject to agency vetting, while encouraging broader and critical perspectives on secrecy, privacy, trust, and national security.

## Source excerpt

Reading a good book is a great joy. And recommending a good book is almost as enjoyable. I've long been fascinated by books on espionage, and this contributed in no small part to me eventually joining the Dutch intelligence world, and later, rejoining it in some fashion. If you have favorite books that should be on this page, please let me know on bert@hubertnet.nl! I'm especially looking for books written from different perspectives.