One of the most entertaining parts of any James Bond movie is 007’s interaction with Q and all the tech gadgets he provides ...

A major challenge for writers of espionage fiction is what happens if your plot gets overtaken by events? Like, what happens if you write a novel where the villain is Russian and the action's all in ...

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In the novels of John le Carré, the term “tradecraft” is a shorthand for the techniques of covert intelligence gathering: the “dead drops” used to pass messages from spy to spy, the surveillance ...

John le Carré's characters were the opposite of James Bond. Like Bond creator Ian Fleming, le Carré was a veteran British intelligence officer who wrote spy novels. But unlike Fleming's action hero, ...

Former CIA analyst David McCloskey keeps writing spy thrillers and the plots keep coming true. His latest book, The Persian, opens with an Israeli surprise attack on Iran. A major challenge for ...