Examines the history, motives, and actions of various spies, both criminal and governmental.

Richard Platt began writing in 1983, and has since published more than 100 books specializing in children's nonfiction. His books have won the silver Nestle Smarties Book Prize and have been shortlisted for the Royal Society Science Book Prize. He is the author of Eyewitness:?Film,?Castle Diary: The Journal of Tobias Burgess,?and Eyewitness: Pirate, among others, and is the coauthor, with Stephen Biesty, of Stephen Biesty’s Incredible Cross-Sections.