Spycraft

What do the main intelligence agencies do and where do they operate? How do they recruit personnel? What are real life honey pots and sleeper agents? What about truth serums and enhanced interrogations? And what are the most common foibles of popular spy fiction? With the voice of over forty years of experience in the Intelligence Community, Bayard & Holmes answer these questions and share information on espionage history, firearms of spycraft, tradecraft techniques, and the personalities and personal challenges of the men and women behind the myths. Though crafted with advice and specific tips for writers, SPYCRAFT: Essentials is for anyone who wants to learn more about the inner workings of the Shadow World.

With the voice of over forty-five years of experience in the Intelligence Community, Bayard & Holmes explore key moments in the history of espionage. • The rise of spy ships. • How torpedo boats faced the might of the Soviet Union. • A blow-by-blow of the USS Liberty incident. • The North Korean capture of the USS Pueblo and her crew. • Hitler, Stalin, Mussolini, and the failed Operation Barbarossa. • The South's fatal miscalculation. • The greatest US intelligence failure of all time. • Andrei Tupolev and the explosion of the Konkordski. • The U-2 incident and the capture of Gary Powers. • The rise and fall of Sicily's Cosa Nostra. • How China spanked Vietnam. • Vladimir Putin, the living legacy of the Cold War. That which has gone before is happening now. That which is happening now has gone before. Thus is the nature of that paradox we call "history."