May 26, 2026
What happens when Britain fights the Cold War with typewriters, fake pamphlets, covert publishers, and even pretend hippies?
On this episode of Spybrary's Cold War Spy Files, Shane Whaley talks with historian Rory Cormac about his book Fakers: A Top Secret Tale of Phantoms and Forgeries on the...
May 5, 2026
I'm
Shane Whaley — a self-confessed "guile over guns" spy fiction
reader who has always preferred le Carré's slow burn spy novels to
military firefights.
So what happens when a Le Carré fan picks up Jack Carr's Cry Havoc,
a 550-page Vietnam War action thriller written by a former Navy
SEAL?
Welcome to the...
Apr 23, 2026
If you think you already know the Cambridge Five story, think
again.
In this episode of Spybrary, Shane Whaley is joined by journalist
and author Antonia Senior to discuss her powerful new book,
Stalin's Apostles: The Cambridge
Five and the Making of the Soviet Empire— a major
re-examination of Kim Philby, Donald...
Apr 15, 2026
One of crime fiction's most trusted voices reveals her 5 best
spy novels. In our latest Spybrary Dead Drop Five series, crime
fiction critic Ayo Onatade makes a passionate case
for each one — and her picks may surprise you.
Welcome back to the Dead Drop 5 series! In this episode, Spybrary
host Shane Whaley is joined...