Recommended Reading: ‘The Enemy Within’

This week’s recommended reading is a non-fiction title, The Enemy Within: A History of Espionage, by Terry Crowdy.

Check out my book review in the video below.

Hi! Today I’m reviewing The Enemy Within: A History of Espionage by Terry Crowdy. This is a really excellent book. I took it out of the library because I’m working on a screenplay where espionage is tangentially, I suppose, involved. Although it’s actually very much more than tangential, but I won’t go into that. The point being that I wanted to get to know more about espionage in general, and this book tells you a lot.

It covers the waterfront from ancient Chinese espionage to the Cold War and beyond. So the thing is, it’s written in such an engaging manner that it almost reads at times like a spy novel. It literally … there were times when it was a real page-turner. But it is, nonetheless, a history book and a reference book, so unless you’re really interested in history and espionage, in particular, it might not be your thing.

But I thoroughly enjoyed it. If you have any interest at all in the topic, read this book. It truly covers so much and in such an engaging way. So that’s really all I had to say and thanks for listening as always and talk to you next time!

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