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So You Want a Career in Intelligence: The Real Reading List

Alma Katsu | Posted 11.21.2011

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Alma Katsu

Intelligence work has its own particular demands and a unique culture. I often thought aspirants would be better served if we could give them a taste of what the job was really like.

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Spy Novelist John le Carré: Writing A Book Is 'Like Having A Baby'

Telegraph | Olga Craig | Posted 05.25.2011

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Cornwell, now 79, allows himself a modest smile. He is, actually, an extremely modest man. With his latest book, his 22nd, Our Kind of Traitor, about ...

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The Time Square Vendors: The Real Hero vs. Jack Bauer

Daniel Levin | Posted 05.25.2011

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Daniel Levin

While the surveillance scene of the Times Bomb Square seems plucked from a modern thriller, the heroes do not.

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'Once A Spy' Excerpt: Keith Thomson's Satirical Thriller About A Spy With Alzheimer's (Part Five)

The Huffington Post | Keith Thomson | Posted 05.25.2011

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Over the past five weeks, HuffPost Books has been rolling out a series of excerpts from Part One of Keith Thomson's debut novel, "Once a Spy." Read Th...

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'Once A Spy' Excerpt: Keith Thomson's Satirical Thriller (Part Four)

The Huffington Post | Keith Thomson | Posted 05.25.2011

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Over the next few weeks, HuffPost Books will be rolling out a series of excerpts from Part One of Keith Thomson's debut novel, "Once a Spy." Read Thom...

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'Once A Spy' Excerpt: Keith Thomson's Satirical Thriller (Part Three)

The Huffington Post | Keith Thomson | Posted 05.25.2011

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Over the next few weeks, HuffPost Books will be rolling out a series of excerpts from Part One of Keith Thomson's debut novel, "Once a Spy." Read Thom...

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'Once A Spy' Excerpt: Keith Thomson's Satirical Thriller (Part Two)

The Huffington Post | Keith Thomson | Posted 05.25.2011

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Over the next month, HuffPost Books will be rolling out a series of excerpts from Part One of Keith Thomson's debut novel, "Once a Spy." Read Thomson'...

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'Once A Spy' Excerpt: Keith Thomson's Satirical Thriller

The Huffington Post | Keith Thomson | Posted 05.25.2011

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Over the next five weeks, HuffPost Books will be rolling out a series of excerpts from Part One of Keith Thomson's debut novel, "Once a Spy." You can ...

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Comedic King Lear and Jack Bauer Clone - Audiobook Reviews

Tom Alderman | Posted 05.25.2011

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Tom Alderman

In Fool, Moore's sell is his Pythonesque-meets-Austin-Powers dialogue and descriptors, delivered on these CDs with sly British sincerity and skill by Euan Morton.

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