Spycraft: Tricks and Tools of the Dangerous Trade from Elizabeth I to the Restoration is a 2024 non fiction book by Nadine Akkerman and Pete Langman, published by Yale University Press.
Author | Nadine Akkerman and Pete Langman |
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Publisher | Yale University Press |
Publication date | 25 June 2024 |
Pages | 368 |
ISBN | 9780300267549 |
Spycraft was praised by Jonathan Bate in The Daily Telegraph as "an intriguing study ... of the mechanics of Elizabethan and Jacobean espionage" which is "anything but stodgy and over-long".[1] In the Literary Review Peter Davidson wrote that "Spycraft is an excellent book, accessibly written, profoundly researched, cleverly illustrated and immensely readable."[2] while for Harper's Magazine Dan Piepenbring commended it as "a diverting history and how-to manual".[3] Writing in the New Statesman Pippa Bailey concludes that "Most enjoyable of all is the epilogue of instructions for invisible inks, codes and poisons".[4]
References
edit- ^ Bate, Jonathan (18 June 2024). "Forget 007 – England's wildest spies were the Elizabethans". The Daily Telegraph. Retrieved 18 June 2024.
- ^ Peter, Davidson (June 2024). "Our Man in Fotheringhay". Literary Review. Retrieved 18 June 2024.
- ^ Piepenbring, Dan (June 2024). "New Books". Harper's Magazine. Retrieved 18 June 2024.
- ^ Bailey, Pippa (12 June 2024). "From Simon Lister to Violet Moller: new books reviewed in short". New Statesman. Retrieved 18 June 2024.