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
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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
