The Airey Neave Book Prize prize has been generously sponsored by Pool Reinsurance since its inception in 2017.

The prize is awarded to the work of non-fiction which the judging panel considers to have made the most significant, original, relevant, and practically valuable contribution to the understanding of terrorism.

The winner of the Neave Book Prize 2022 is How Spies Think: Ten Lessons in Intelligence by Sir David Omand. The runner up is Disruption: Inside the Largest Counterterrorism Investigation in History by Ali J Peritz. The prizes were announced by Tom Clementi, CEO of Pool Reinsurance, at a reception on November 15th 2022 and presented by Dame Pauline Neville-Jones.

The Short List of 4 books for the Neave Book Prize 2022 -

Disruption: Inside the Largest Counterterrorism Investigation in History by Aki J Peritz (Potomac Books)

How Spies Think: Ten Lessons in Intelligence by David Omand (Penguin)

The Spymaster of Baghdad: The Untold Story of the Elite Intelligence Cell that Turned the Tide against ISIS by Margaret Coker (Viking)

Western Jihadism: A Thirty Year History by Jytte Klausen (OUP)

The Long List of 12 books for the Neave Book Prize 2022 -

Bitskrieg: The New Challenge of Cyberwarfare by John Arquilla (Polity)

Disruption: Inside the Largest Counterterrorism Investigation in History by Aki J Peritz (Potomac Books)

Getting Through Security: Counterterrorism, Bureaucracy, and a Sense of the Modern by Mark Maguire, David A. Westbrook (Routledge)

How Spies Think: Ten Lessons in Intelligence by David Omand (Penguin)

How Terror Evolves: The Emergence and Spread of Terrorist Techniques by Yannick Veilleux-Lepage (Rowman & Littlefield Publishers)

Israel's Counterterrorism Strategy: Origins to the Present (Columbia Studies in Terrorism and Irregular Warfare) by Boaz Ganor (Columbia University Press)

Jihad in the City: Militant Islam and Contentious Politics in Tripoli by Raphaël Lefèvre (CUP)

Never-Ending War on Terror: 13 (American Studies Now: Critical Histories of the Present) by Alex Lubin (University of California Press)

Spies, Lies, and Algorithms: The History and Future of American Intelligence by Amy Zegart (Princeton University Press)

Terrorist Diversion: A Guide to Prevention and Detection for NGOs by Oliver May, Paul Curwell (Routledge)

The Spymaster of Baghdad: The Untold Story of the Elite Intelligence Cell that Turned the Tide against ISIS by Margaret Coker (Viking)

Western Jihadism: A Thirty Year History by Jytte Klausen (OUP)

The judges will announce the Short List of 4 books at the beginning of July 2022. The judges of the Short List are Dame Pauline Neville-Jones DCMG PC, Professor Michael Clarke, Sir Kevin Tebbit KCB CMG, Michael Bottenheim, Dr Tim Wilson and Sir David Veness CBE. The winner will be announced at a reception in the Liberal Club on Tuesday 15th November.