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BRIDGET'S GALLERY OF GIRL SPIES THROUGH THE AGES

TAYLOR SWIFT

What, you didn't know Taylor Swift was a spy? Look closer. Examine the evidence. She rose to fame and public notice selling secrets about her enemies, ie: her worthless exes. After working undercover as a country artist, she cunningly switched allegiances and embraced full-on pop superstardom with the hidden agenda of inflitrating and destroying that industry from inside: look at the way she's already fired shots at Apple and Spotify. She's formed a girlsquad of long-legged, high profile best friends who would take a bullet for her. This works on two levels: it makes her invulnerable and, more importantly, it isolates and intimidates her nemesis, Katy Perry.

No spy, however cunning, stays at the top of her game forever. There will come a day when she will fall from grace, but right now, you cannot hope to stop Taylor Swift, you can only hope you never cross her.

BRIDGET'S WORLD OF COOL GADGETS AND WEAPONS

GLASSES OF TRUTH

Can you tell when someone is lying just by looking at their face? With these glasses you can. Every eye twitch, every moistening of the lip, every slight raise in temperature, every tic, twitch and tremble is registered in the lens of these specially-modified spectacles. Just think, no one will ever be able to get anything untrue past you ever again. Of course, you'll never be able to trust anyone ever again. But that's a small price to pay.

BRIDGET'S SPY SONG PLAYLIST

 SPY IN THE HOUSE OF LOVE- WAS(NOT WAS)

BRIDGET'S GALLERY OF GIRL SPIES THROUGH THE AGES

MAGGIE SILVER

Heroine of Robin Benway's Also Known As series. Smart capable safecracking daughter of a spy family. Her biggest challenge is to go undercover as an actual schoolgirl and navigate a world of vicious girlswho capable of  wounding with a few cutting words and a disdainful look, confusing social codes and crushes on boys.

brIDGET'S WORLD OF COOL GADGETS AND WEAPONS

SNEAKERS

Not just any sneakers. Nanosneakers that give the wearer the ability to run like the wind, effortlessly outpacing speeding cars, bikes and buses. Plus they're color co-ordinated with the nano tracksuit that gives the wearer amazing athleticism and prowess in many martial arts.

BRIDGET'S SPY SONG PLAYLIST

 Private Eyes- Hall & Oates

BRIDGET'S GALLERY OF GIRL SPIES THROUGH THE AGES

MODESTY BLAISE

A twelve year-old runaway tough and resourceful enough to take over a criminal gang and expand it into an international organization. When she's robbed, conned and cheated enough people, she retires, and that's when the British government comes calling, begging her to use her wiles for their side. Modesty Blaise and her knife-throwing sidekick, Willie Garvin, fired guns, kicked people, raced cars and executed amazing jewel heists in exotic locations across the world. Their exploits have been featured in a comic strip that ran for over 40 years, a series of books, and an insane movie, of the sort that they do not make any more.

 

brIDGET'S WORLD OF COOL GADGETS AND WEAPONS

BRIDGET'S WORLD OF COOL GADGETS AND WEAPONS

CAR.

No ordinary car. This is a car specially middified for the particular needs of a 13 year-old spy. It has self-driving and navigating. It projects the image of a more mature, license-holding driver on the windows, and it talks to the occupant of the vehicle, providing her with information, encouragment and will also fight with her for control of the radio stations.

BRIDGET'S SPY SONG PLAYLIST

 SPY - SHAKIRA

Hips don't spy!