NPR's Mary Louise Kelly speaks with James Wolff, the pseudonym of a former British intelligence officer who now writes about them in spy novels. His latest book is Spies and Other Gods.
When the call came in to the duty officer at MI6 headquarters on the evening of 4 March 2018, it was met with surprise and alarm. One of their agents was lying in a hospital bed, apparently poisoned.
John le Carré's characters were the opposite of James Bond. Like Bond creator Ian Fleming, le Carré was a veteran British intelligence officer who wrote spy novels. But unlike Fleming's action hero, ...
On Monday, the Kremlin claimed it had uncovered another spy in the British embassy in Moscow, and was expelling the second secretary, one Albertus Janse van Rensburg. The Russians’ determination to ...
Prime Minister Keir Starmer’s government approved plans for a massive new Chinese Embassy near Tower Bridge, angering critics who fear it will enable spying. By Michael D. Shear and Stephen Castle In ...
LONDON — In a rare acknowledgment of espionage reminiscent of the Cold War, a former British government official admitted that a fake rock discovered in 2006 by the Russian secret service in a Moscow ...
The British spy whose body was discovered in a padlocked duffel bag, spawning a number of conspiracy theories, was likely suffocated or poisoned to death, a forensic pathologist testified Monday. The ...
Over the weekend, legendary British spy novelist Len Deighton passed away. He was 97. Deighton penned more than 20 spy novels, many of them adapted into popular movies and TV shows. MARY LOUISE KELLY, ...
Some results have been hidden because they may be inaccessible to you
Show inaccessible results