Official Spy's Handbook

Description

Packed with tips, hints and advice on all the tricks needed to be a super spy, including how to write and break codes, how to use disguises to avoid detection and how to stalk and shadow enemy spies effectively. Everything a good spy needs to know about secret codes, disguises, shadowing and observation skills. This essential guide to spying is packed with useful skills and tips, such as shaking off a trail, scrambling secret messages and creating amazing disguises. Spies in training can use the activity pages to create camouflage headbands, decode messages and spot enemy spies in crowds of people. A brand new edition of a much-loved Usborne classic, sure to entertain and delight a brand new generation of spies.

Le Carre for ten-year-olds, this book made espionage seem like a perfectly viable profession. * Author David Nicholls in The Saturday Times * As someone who had planned on a career in espionage from the age of nine or so, thanks to the Knowhow Book of Spycraft and its companion volume, the Official Spy's Handbook - it is no exaggeration that, for years on end, these books were my life - my heart soared as the news that our secret services are being urged to recruit middle aged mothers. * The Sunday Times * From cracking secret codes and creating effective disguises to tracking and decoding signals it's a book to be kept close at hand but hidden from the unknown enemy. * Parents in Touch * I love a book that encourages kids to be creative and The Usborne Official Spy's Handbook is just that! * The London Mummy Blog * I remember reading this when I was a kid in the 80s with my sister and brother. We loved it, LOVED it so much! * Reader's review by ling *