Tag: True Stories
I seem to have one of those faces that remind people of someone else. Throughout my life, people have kept telling me how I look like someone they…
American Made released in August 2017, starring Tom Cruise and directed by Doug Liman, is a black-comedy-thriller about a pilot who gets mixed up with the CIA and drug-smuggling, against…
On the 70th anniversary of D-Day – how an amateur Spanish spy, his imaginary sub-agents and his sneaky British handlers saved D-day and pulled off the greatest espionage…
Dirty Wars is an 2013 documentary by Jeremy Scahill and directed by Rick Rowley concerning the activities of the US Joint Special Operations Command (JSOC). This is a guest post…
This is the astonishing story of how a prolific, hugely popular, but now almost forgotten spy novelist, William Le Queux, single-handedly caused the creation of Britain’s spy agencies. It’s the true…
Zero Dark Thirty stars Jessica Chastain as ‘Maya’. Supporting performances from Jason Clark as ‘Dan’, the CIA’s go-to torturer, and Jennifer Ehle as ‘Jessica’, a CIA operative with a…
Veronika is a short story by Graeme Shimmin.