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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 Carré 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
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