Spy phones, surveillance cameras, how to catch a cheater and how to not get caught—the tricks of the detective trade revealed Honeytraps, spy phones, sexpionage, and integrity testing—Richard Martinez uses it all in his private detective business, and he reveals his surveillance secrets in this compelling book. It's not just about catching cheaters and stalking stalkers—Martinez also helps parents who want to know if their teenagers have joined gangs and women in fear for their lives if they leave abusive husbands. Often dramatic but sometimes hilarious, these true stories of a P.I.'s experiences offer insights into a morally dubious society and controversial truth-finding services.

Join ex-Air Force reserve officer turned private detective Richard Martinez as he investigates real-life criminal and moral cases in this captivating (and sometimes comedic) book. With a background as personal security staff for Boris Johnson, Martinez brings a unique perspective to his work as a private detective. From catching cheats and fraudsters to using hi-tech surveillance gadgets and forensics, he uses his expertise and a variety of evidence gathering techniques to solve cases involving phone hackers, honour killers, and more. Along the way, he helps locate missing people and protects individuals from sex-mad stalkers. Follow Martinez on his thrilling journey as a private detective.

THE MAJOR MOTION PICTURE starring Jennifer Lawrence, Joel Edgerton and Jeremy Irons. Dominika Egorov, former prima ballerina, is sucked into the heart of Putin's Russia, the country she loved, as the twists and turns of a betrayal and counter-betrayal unravel. American Nate Nash, idealistic and ambitious, handles the double agent, codenamed MARBLE, considered one of CIA's biggest assets. He needs to keep his identity secret for as long as the mole can keep supplying golden information. Will Dominika be able to unmask MARBLE, or will the mission see her faith destroyed in the country she has always passionately defended? 'A great and dangerous spy-game is being played today between Russian intelligence and the CIA. Very few people know about it, including many of our politicians in Washington. But Jason Matthews does, and his thrilling Red Sparrow takes us deep inside this treacherous world. He's an insider's insider. He knows the secrets. And he is also a masterful story-teller. I loved this book and could not put it down. Neither will you' Vince Flynn 'Not since the good old days of the Cold War has a classic spy thriller like Red Sparrow come along. Jason Matthews is not making it up; he has lived this life and this story, and it shows on every page. High-level espionage, pulse-pounding danger, sex, double agents and double crosses. What more can any reader want?' Nelson DeMille

This is the true story behind General Alexander Orlov, the man who never was, now revealed in full for the first time: Stalinist henchman, Soviet spy, celebrated defector to the West, and central character in the greatest KGB deception ever.

Based on the popular "How to Talk" feature in the alternative travel magazine "Monk", this savvy and often hilarious, region-by-region guide to the way Americans talk also provides a dead-on (and sometimes too strange) indication of how we think, how we behave, and what we hold dear. 100+ photos, drawings & maps.

The devil may be in the details, but it doesn't mean you can't embrace the details. That was Blake Austin Harvin’s college professor's advice to his brainy student before Blake secretly left Chapel Hill to Virginia to become a recruit for the CIA in June 2021. Blake was a nerd through and through. He could analyze concrete details by over-generalizing statements because details can be cross-checked by reality more easily than a hunch. A nerd cares more about being right than appearing smart. So, Blake grabs onto details as a way of investigating facts. Blake had a STEM major. Highly educated. Many nerds gravitate toward science, technology, engineering, and math. His education dealt plainly in facts and observed many whys. Whereas many other more subjective disciplines lack the aim of fact-checking. Nerds prefer more theoretical fields, such as task-related, analysis, coding, and software programming. Nerds see gray areas whereas others only see black and white. This is because nerds are good at examining the pros and cons. Blake was a pro and a con. Sometimes, leaving him looking like an occupational vacillator, constantly seesawing back and forth between sides of an argument or the law. Blake zeros in on facts, leaving him in the gray area. Vacillators are unpredictable and detach from black and white. Blake is working on stepping out of the gray area and using his talent to gather information and wait for a pre-aligned set of theories to make a conclusion to hit his enemy with the force of facts. Blake’s brain is the lethal weapon.

A national bestseller, this extraordinary work of investigative reporting uncovers the identities, and the remarkable stories, of the CIA secret agents who died anonymously in the service of their country. In the entrance of the CIA headquarters looms a huge marble wall into which seventy-one stars are carved-each representing an agent who has died in the line of duty. Official CIA records only name thirty-five of them, however. Undeterred by claims that revealing the identities of these "nameless stars" might compromise national security, Ted Gup sorted through thousands of documents and interviewed over 400 CIA officers in his attempt to bring their long-hidden stories to light. The result of this extraordinary work of investigation is a surprising glimpse at the real lives of secret agents, and an unprecedented history of the most compelling—and controversial—department of the US government.