Spies of No Country: Secret Lives at the Birth of Israel is a book by Matti Friedman published in March 2019.

'"[1] Bill Gladstone wrote that "In lesser hands, this story might not be capable of sustaining the interest of readers through more than 200 pages, but Friedman is a natural-born storyteller whose simple but compelling language, and level of insight and sensitivity, seem to anticipate and settle questions in the readers’ minds even before they arise."

Their mission didn’t culminate in a dramatic explosion that averted disaster, or in the solution of a devious puzzle.

Their importance to history lies instead in what they turned out to be – the embryo of one of the world’s most formidable intelligence services [the Mossad]...”[8] In a review published in The Forward, Raphael Magarik noted that Friedman repeated Israeli propaganda throughout the book, overlooked evidence that did not support his argument, and misrepresented events.

[10] In 2020, the book won the vine awards for canadian jewish literature for history.