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4-6Checkerboard Library: History's Hotshots series.
This entry in the series examines spies and spy craft. While pop culture and older examples of spies are briefly discussed, the main focus is intelligence-gathering techniques in modern history. While treatments of individual topics are brief, the volume is decently informative overall. The layouts are bland, but photos, illustrations, and sidebars add extra information to the basic text. Timeline. Glos., ind.