Best-selling spy novelist Alex Berenson says the CIA's division of brains and brawn has made the do-it-all spy we recognize from Sean Connery's James Bond a thing of the past.
News emerged this week that SAPO spent $800,000 on a Bond-themed party last year that was complete with casino tables, a big band and a gala dinner.
Ian Fleming, died in 1964. But his creation, super spy James Bond, lives on. British writer William Boyd will write the next one. The World's Carol Zall has the story.
The assassination of Hamas official Mahmoud al-Mabhouh last month in a Dubai hotel room has been compared to the plot of a cheap spy novel. Bad costumes, security footage, and Interpol all make for a good thread.