Ex-agent or Writer- - Which one is better?

[Ken]

Do you believe experience in the FBI, CIA, or NSA makes a writer more qualified to write about life in the espionage business?

[Charles]

Definteky, Ken. I couldn't have written THE OLD SPOOK without my experience in th NSA. It's the little nuances that make the difference, but you do have to do your homework to be really instructive.The Old Spook

[Unknown]

If you're not from an intelligence background, you'd have to find someone that is and do a bucket load of research like I do for my books. Remember that protocols and tradecraft change from agency to agency to country to country so bare that in mind!

[Charles]

Real life experience makes all the difference. Read "The Lost Hadith" (just published; 6/5/2014) by S. Milsap Thorpe for an insider's take on espionage and intrigue in the Muslim world, particularly Iraq.

[Gideon]

Neither is better..

once you have been in the field you are not good for much else..

Obviously I am one of the authors littering this thread, looking for an audience…

But I also spent 8 years in the field during the cold war and have a story you more than likely have not heard.

After several attempts to appease DOS screeners we fictionalized some details and I have publish this as fact based fiction.

If you have any interest in how it was to operate in the dark on the other side of the wall…. This is as accurate a narration as would be allowed told.

I invite you to check out

JINNIK by Gideon D. Asche

The first 100 readers will receive a certified piece of the Berlin Wall.
The author may be contacted at gideonasche@volcano.net

Photographs from Jinnik and Excerpts are available at

https://www.facebook.com/pages/Jinnik...

I do apologize if I overstepped the limits of my participation here but you are some of the few who might actually understand what it was like in the years before the wall came down.

It still haunts my nightmares and I have to remind myself it is gone…


http://my.bookbaby.com/book/jinnik