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[This] tongue-in-cheek guide to espionage . . . explores a broad swathe of spy-related topics--everything from eavesdropping and code breaking to cyber-warfare and spreading misinformation--while referring to historical (and recent) spies and spy operations.
King includes topics like assassination, but keeps the tone light ("Some villains are so mean, their assassination seems only fair"). Amusing anecdotes, such as when Madeleine Albright wore a bright bug pin for a meeting with the Russians (to inform them that she knew of the bugs they'd placed in State Department offices), should entertain while giving readers a sense of how espionage works in the real world.
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