Cloak & Dagger Stories is a blog about the fictional and factual aspects of espionage. It will feature reviews of books belonging to famous men's adventure and espionage series such as Nick Carter, The Baroness, and Mack Bolan, and of books by contemporary and classic authors such as Greg Rucka, Brad Thor, Ted Bell, Martin Walker, Eric Van Lustbader, Colin Forbes, Craig Thomas, John R. Maxim, and Owen Sela, to name a few.
The blog will also focus on spy movies — e..g, Eurospy stuff such as Passport to Hell, Mission Bloody Mary, Special Mission Lady Chaplin, Deadlier than the Male, and the Kommissar X films — and TV series such as "Prisoner" and "The Sandbaggers".
James Bond, both the film and the literary versions, will be avoided, as there are too many other places on the Web that talk about him.
As exciting as spy stories are, the facts about espionage are no less interesting. The Mitrokhin Archives, based on the material a defector smuggled out to the West, lays bare the secret operations of the KGB. Spycatcher, Peter Wright's memoir, is an account of the courage and intelligence, as well as the crass stupidity and venality of senior officers of MI5, MI6, and the CIA.
This blog will, therefore, feature material on tradecraft, spy-agencies, spy-tech, and famous real spies.
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