My love affair with all things espionage started early– armed with a library’s worth of knowledge about my favorite female superspies like Carmen Sandiego, Nancy Drew, and Harriet the Spy, I was convinced that I was destined to become the world’s next great covert operative. As I grew older and realized that I may not have the talents needed to pull off a career of cloak-and-dagger adventures, I contented myself with reading about the exploits of my favorite spies and gumshoes. If, like me, you can always find room in your reading list for the fiendishly-clever maneuvers of real and fictional secret agents, check out this list of NPL spy-related reads:
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