Secret intelligence service

Today's post will be featuring a desktop and iPhone wallpaper inspired by the novel "Stone Cold" by David Baldacci. An action thriller wit...

Timed for the centennial of MI5 and MI6, Gordon Thomas' history of British intelligence teems with double agents, whistle-blowers and moles. Drawn from Thomas' many contacts among spooks and spymasters, Secret Wars is a riveting read.

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The actor got back into his Bond mode with a first glimpse at filming from the new Spectre film as he was joined by right-hand man Rory Kinnear as MI6 agent Bill Tanner. The pair were on the River Thames.

'A stunning story' Wall Street Journal A mole, implanted by Moscow Centre, has infiltrated the highest ranks of the British Intelligence Service, almost destroying it in the process. And so former spymaster George Smiley has been brought out of retirement in order to hunt down the traitor at the very heart of the Circus - even though it may be one of those closest to him. The first part of le Carré's acclaimed Karla Trilogy, Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy sees the beginning of the stealthy Cold…

Daniel Craig on a London rooftop in "Skyfall."