
MI6 Spy Skills for Civilians
A Former British Agent Reveals How to Live Like a Spy - Smarter, Sneakier and Ready for Anything
Media Lab Books · Print & ebook · March 10, 2020
Written by a former SAS officer and MI6 operative for Her Majesty's Secret Service, this book details more than 100 skills, tips and techniques employed by spies to get the job done.
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- Who it’s for
- Readers seeking practical spycraft tips for surveillance, subterfuge, and covert entry
- Themes
- Practical spycraft, Personal safety and self-defense, Intelligence gathering
- Genres
- Survival & Emergency Preparedness, Intelligence & Spycraft, Private Investigation
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Written by a former SAS officer and MI6 operative for Her Majesty's Secret Service, this book details more than 100 skills, tips and techniques employed by spies to get the job done. MI6 Spy Skills for Civilians shows you how to master the skills of a British agent in order to protect yourself and others, be sneakier and handle any situation - even if it involves escaping from a hostile foreign country.
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Inside you'll find dozens of real secret agent skills and tips detailed and explained, often with helpful illustrations to clarify how they’re done. Sections covered include: - Surveillance - Safe Travel Tips - Dead Letter Boxes - Brush Contacts - Self Defense - Innocuous and Natural Weapons - Intelligence Gathering - Subterfuge - Covert Methods of Entry - Insertion and Extraction Techniques - And much more! The book covers more than 100 tips and techniques in all, as detailed by Red Riley, a former SAS and MI6 operative. It's invaluable information formerly available only to a select few - and now it's available to you, too! Includes a foreword by Ian Sharp, action director of the classic James Bond film Goldeneye.
Who it’s for
- Readers seeking practical spycraft tips for surveillance, subterfuge, and covert entry
- Readers looking for techniques to protect themselves and others
Where it sits
| Intelligence & Spycraft | 77% |
|---|---|
| Survival & Emergency Preparedness | 57% |
| Private Investigation | 27% |
Percentages are BookFrontier’s reading of the book.
Publisher categories
- Film Reference
- Intelligence & Spycraft
- Practical Guides
- Authors
- Red Riley
- Publisher
- Media Lab Books
- Published
- March 10, 2020
- Format
- Print & ebook
- Theme
- Practical spycraft · Personal safety and self-defense · Intelligence gathering
- Reading lane
- Film Reference