* The Enemy Within: Spies, Traitors, and Saboteurs in American History (1994)
* Codebreakers (1997)
* Secret Wars (2000)
* The Great Conspiracy: The Secret Plot to Genocide America's Greatest Spy Agency (2003)
* The CIA and the Culture of Failure: How America's Spy Agency Has Repeatedly Failed America (2006)
* The Intelligence Wars (2008)
* Agent of Deceit: The Spy Caught in Hitler's Web (2011)
* Double Agent: The First Hero of World War II and How the FBI Betrayed Him (2014)
* The Great Escape: Nine True Stories of Hidden Prisoners, Wartime Spies, and Escaped Slaves (2017)
* Spies and Traitors: A Secret History of Foreign Intelligence (2020)
Television movies
* In Search of History (documentary series, 1996–1998)
* Great Escape: The Untold Story (2002)
* The Thin Line (2002)
* The CIA and the Culture of Failure (2006)
Articles and essays
* "The FBI and the Great Spy Hunt" (The New Republic, 1997)
* "The CIA's Secret Wars" (The New Republic, 2000)
* "The CIA and the Culture of Failure" (The Nation, 2006)
* "Agent of Deceit: The Spy Caught in Hitler's Web" (The New York Times, 2011)
* "Double Agent: The First Hero of World War II and How the FBI Betrayed Him" (The Wall Street Journal, 2014)
* "The Great Escape: Nine True Stories of Hidden Prisoners, Wartime Spies, and Escaped Slaves" (The Washington Post, 2017)