Shadow Dancer - Tom Bradby

Before and during WW2 the Germans painted the British as master spies always around to stir up trouble in foreign countries. To this day we Brits have a proud tradition of having some of the best secret agents in the world, most of them not as interesting as James Bond. The reality is that many secret agents are kind of like glorified civil servants and rather than heading head first into danger themselves they instead construct a network of informants. Turning someone loyal against their own kind is not always a pretty thing; you may have to blackmail them with threats to their family or tell them you will turn them in. Surely a book about the complicated ...  Read the complete review