What are real spies like? Some, like the beautiful Mata Hari, are every bit as glamorous as famous fictional agents like James Bond. But, as you'll see in 'True Spy Stories', spies usually live shadowy double lives, risking imprisonment, torture and execution for a chance to change history.

 

This book is part of a book series called Usborne .

There are 139 pages in this book. This book was published 2001 by Usborne Publishing Ltd .

Lisa Miles spent her entire career in children's publishing, as both a writer and an editor. She worked in educational publishing for schools, children's trade publishing and also on a variety of children's magazines. Fergus Fleming is the author of the best-selling Barrow's Boys (Granta), a rip-roaring account of the British expeditions sent out by second secretary to the Admiralty John Barrow during the first half of the 19th century.