One thing that has always irked me is most spy novels (movies, TV shows, etc.) tend to glorify the spy, or at least follow the spy closely and have us cheer them on. What we don’t typically find in entertainment is the process of catching a spy or perhaps using the spy as an unwitting participant in a larger game. For me, that type of story is way more interesting than one where we follow a spy around hoping they won’t get caught. Those stories are suspenseful and full of tension, of course, but catching a spy can be as equally suspenseful and tense.