Kai Bird; Paul French; Ben Macintyre; Katherine Carter — Real-Life Espionage: Intelligence in the 20th Century

New York; London; New Haven, Crown; Picador; Penguin; Yale University Press, 2014-2024. First edition. Cloth. Four fascinating first editions telling real-life stories of espionage and intrigue during the twentieth century, from underworld Shanghai to Churchill's war rooms. Four first editions telling fascinating stories of espionage, intrigue, intelligence and spies during the twentieth century, published between 2014-2024.In the publisher's original cloth, in the original clipped (Bird) and unclipped dust wrappers. From the underworld of Shanghai, to the Iranian Hostage Crisis of the 1980s, these four true stories are thrilling reads.- The Good Life: The Life and Death of CIA operative Robert Ames, written by Pullitzer Prize-winning author Kai Bird. (Crown, 2014).- City of Devils: The Two Men Who Ruled the Underworld from Shanghai, written by Paul French. Contains eight plates to the center of the book with numerous illustrations. (Picador, 2018).- The Siege: The Remarkable Story of the Greatest SAS Hostage Drama, a bestseller, written by Paul Macintyre. Contains sixteen plates with numerous colour illustrations, as well as in-text illustrations. (Penguin, 2024).- Churchill's Citadel: Chartwell and the Gatherings Before the Storm, written by Katherine Carter. Contains numerous in-text illustrations throughout. (Yale University Press, 2024). In the publisher's original cloth, In the publisher's original cloth, in the original clipped (Bird) and unclipped dust wrappers. Externally, very smart, with minimal marks to boards. Small knocks to heads and tails of spines of French and Bird. Dust wrappers are bright and clean, with minimal edgewear. End papers are bright and clean, with a couple of very small grazed marks to top edge of French front pastedown. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are bright and clean.  Fine . Ill.: Various. Fine/Fine.