Ultimate spy

Format:

Book (regular print)

Title:

Ultimate spy

Author:

Melton, H. Keith (Harold Keith), 1944- author

ISBN:

9780241189917

9781465436009

Edition:

Fourth edition.

Publication:

London : Dorling Kindersley, 2015.

Physical Description:

224 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 29 cm

General Note:

Includes index.

Summary:

Take a look inside the covert world of espionage - its history, the hi-tech spy gadgets and aspects of spycraft from surveillance to assassination. DK's Ultimate Spy is filled with stunning, specially commissioned photographs that show details of equipment including spycams, bugs, weapons and drone aircraft. From the earliest intrigues at royal courts through the covert operations of the CIA and KGB during the Cold War to the revelations from Wikileaks and Edward Snowden, delve into the secret world of espionage.

Subject(s):

Spies -- Juvenile literature.

Espionage -- History -- Juvenile literature.

Intelligence service -- Juvenile literature.

Espionage -- Juvenile literature.

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Delve into the secret world of espionage Take a look inside the covert world of espionage - its history, the hi-tech spy gadgets and aspects of spycraft from surveillance to assassination. DK's Ultimate Spy is filled with stunning, specially commissioned photographs that show details of equipment including spycams, bugs, weapons and drone aircraft. From the earliest intrigues at royal courts through the covert operations of the CIA and KGB during the Cold War to the revelations from Wikileaks and Edward Snowden, delve into the secret world of espionage.

Author Notes

An internationally recognized authority on espionage tradecraft and equipment, H. Keith Melton lectures as the Tradecraft Historian at the Interagency Training Center outside Washington, DC, and is also an adviser on historical espionage equipment to US intelligence agencies. He has amassed an extensive collection of spy paraphernalia, books and images, part of which is on permanent display in the Central Intelligence Agency.

Reviews (2)

School Library Journal Review

Gr 7 Up-Designed in typical DK fashion, with numerous color photographs, this accessible pictorial overview of the world of spying will readily attract browsers. The broad chapter headings are subdivided into two- and four-page subtopics. Each chapter kicks off with an introductory spread, featuring white text on a black background. Captions are generally informative. Not much has changed in this volume compared with the previous edition. One subtopic has been deleted, while two new ones have been added, and about a half-dozen photos and biographic sidebars in the third edition have been replaced with newer ones (including one of Edward Snowden). VERDICT An excellent introduction to the darker side of international relations. However, those who own the third edition need not purchase the fourth.-Eldon Younce, Anthony Public Library, KS © Copyright 2015. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.

Publisher's Weekly Review

At once newly relevant in the age of Homeland Security, and eternally fascinating by dint of its sneakiness, the espionage game find concise historical and taxonomical representation in this revised edition of the 1996 original, a picture book of spy tools through the ages. Proceeding from the Civil War to the Hanssen era, each page follows the same formula of coupling flat photographs of the implements of spying with bite-size descriptions running alongside. Among the gadgets profiled are the "induction telephone tap" (a device clamped to an external phone cable for difficult-to-detect tapping) and the "rectal tool kit" (a lozenge-shaped plastic case containing, among other things, a saw blade, grinding tool and drill bit, all packaged for discrete transport). An introduction by former Director of the CIA Helms lends a certain adult credibility to this photo-encyclopedia, but really it seems aimed at the inner child lurking in every war buff and Robert Ludlum-ite in business class. (Oct.) (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved