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Non-Fiction: As Gordon Corera reveals there are no longer any secret mail drops or late-night border crossings any more. Spying has actually gone electronic. 21st century spies are now sitting at their computer systems just like everybody else. Corera, who is a BBC News security reporter, was originally going to focus the book only on the hi-tech sleuthing of today. However as he probed further into the world of the spy, he became aware his story required a historic point of view to give it some perspective
Biography: Many young kids long to become a professional football player, but Johnny Sherwood was lucky enough to actually to realize his childhood dream and play for his town club, Reading. At some stage, he was even put forward by the Media as a candidate to play for England, however the break out of World War II put a stop to his footballing aspirations. In its place, he joined the Royal Artillery and found himself in Singapore just when it surrendered to the Japanese invasion. As a result, he came to be