Secret service

CRIME ENTS NEWS THAT KEEPS YOU IN THE KNOW

Private investigators Emma Coles and Sam Hutchinson on surveillance, secret cameras, solving cases – and still being home in time for the school run

In the fourth instalment of his SAS Great Escapes series, Damien Lewis recounts, among others, an overlooked LRDG operation in occupied Yugoslavia

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Every wondered what it would take to be a reallife James Bond? Dominic Bliss looks at the skills you’d need to be the world’s most famous literary spy – and how to get them

Intelligence veteran Mark Lowenthal reveals how after a shift to counter-terrorism from the 1990s, spycraft is returning to its Cold War operations