Espionage True Accounts

Nonfiction

True History of Monopoly’s Surprising, Crucial Role in WWII Espionage

Philip E. Orbanes is an American Board Game designer, former senior vice president for research and development at Parker Brothers and the world’s foremost authority on the history of the board game Monopoly. His latest book on the game, Monopoly X, is aptly subtitled: How Top Secret World War Two…

Linda HitchcockSeptember 15, 2025

Nonfiction

Retired CIA Agent Has Cold War Secrets to Reveal in Historical Tell-All

Readers may be convinced Howard Blum has concocted an eye-popping, nail-biting, edge-of-your-seat thriller before realizing it is a remarkable work of non-fiction history. Step aside James Bond to make way for Tennent “Pete” Bagley, a retired CIA agent with secrets of the Cold War to reveal. The Spy Who Knew…

Linda HitchcockAugust 11, 2023

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Thrilling True Account of Spy vs. Spy and Family Caught in the Middle

During World War II, aviation engineer Larry Haas met Andrei Schevchenko, a Soviet purchasing agent at Bell Aircraft in Niagara Falls, New York. A “legal agent” there on business to purchase Bell’s warplanes for the Soviet Union’s fight against Germany, Schevchenko’s aims were far more duplicitous and would enmesh Haas…

Peggy KurkowskiMay 22, 2023

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Memoir from Vietnam Vet and Special Agent Explores War on Drugs and Terrorism

“We were expecting a knock at the door. When it came, my partner Matty and I gave the hotel room one last visual check. Everything seemed in place — my suitcase sat on the floor with the Amsterdam baggage tag clearly in view; my bogus Pan Am identification card lay…

Jim AlkonMarch 1, 2023

Espionage True Accounts

Thrilling True Account of Spy vs. Spy and Family Caught in the Middle

Memoir from Vietnam Vet and Special Agent Explores War on Drugs and Terrorism

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