Mi6 Spy Skills for Civilians: A real-life secret agent reveals how to live safer, sneakier and ready for anything
By (Author) Red Riley
Topix Media Lab
Topix Media Lab
10th March 2020
1st April 2020
United States
General
Non Fiction
Lifestyle and personal style guides
327.1241
Paperback
224
Width 140mm, Height 216mm, Spine 22mm
441g
Be like Bond. James Bond. Mi6 Spy Skills for Civilians shows readers how to master the skills of agents in Her Majesty's Secret Service in order to protect themselves, be sneakier and handle any situation - even if it involves escaping from a hostile foreign country. Inside they'll find dozens of real field agent skills detailed and explained, often with helpful illustrations to clarify how they're done. Sections covered include: Surveillance Safe Travel Tips Dead Letter Boxes Brush Contacts Self Defense Intelligence Gathering Subterfuge Insertion and Extraction Techniques And More! Readers will find more than 100 skills in all, detailed by Red Riley, a former SAS and Mi6 operative. It's invaluable information formerly available only to a select few - and now it's available to readers, too! Includes a foreword by John "Lofty" Wiseman, bestselling author the SAS Survival Handbook.
Red Riley joined the British Army at the age of 18. After basic training, he volunteered for Pilot Training and was eventually appointed Flight Commander SAS Hereford. At the age of 36, he left the Army Air Corps and transferred to the SAS. In 1989, he was recruited by Mi6 where he served until 2015. Now retired, Riley and his wife split their time time between the UK and Spain. John "Lofty" Wiseman served in the British Special Air Service (SAS) for 26 years. He is the author of the classic multimillion-copy worldwide bestselling book, SAS Survival Handbook, now in its third edition.