Espionage fact and fiction collide in this thrilling compendium, which includes John le Carré's "A Brief History of George Smiley" and Ian Fleming's "Preparing the Ground for James Bond," as well as excerpts from Graham Greene's The Human Factor, W. Somerset Maugham's Ashenden, Joseph Conrad's The Secret Agent, and Erskine Childers's The Riddle of the Sands. Here too are true accounts of such figures as Kim Philby, Robert Baden-Powell, and Sidney "Ace of Spies" Reilly.