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43 F A L L Q 3 I S S U E B O O K R E V I E W Cambridge University and is the Official Historian of England's Security Service (MI5). He is Honorary Air Commodore of 7006 (VR), the Intelligence Squadron in the Royal Auxiliary Air Force, and the author of numerous books and articles. He was a founding editor of the scholarly journal, " I n te l l i ge n c e a n d Na t i o n a l S e c u r i t y," which has been called the premier journal in the (perhaps surprising) academic field of intelligence studies. Green is a writer and producer of over 200 plays, circus entertainments, and musicals. Known as an entertainment historian, Green also wrote the books "How to Produce a West End Show" and "Agatha Christie: A Life in the Theatre." The collaboration of these two widely acclaimed men resulted in "Stars and Spies," the first book to make clear the historical connections between spying and the entertainment industry. It is peppered with footnotes from over 20 pages of bibliography and includes an index, but readers should not be put off by such supplementary materials. "Stars and Spies" is a meticulously researched, engrossing page-turner; as in every good spy story, readers will want to know what comes next. Spying is a centuries-old occupation, probably vying with sex work to be the world's oldest profession, and sex takes on hefty roles in stage, screen, and literary works as well as spycraft. The book starts at the beginning with Sun Tzu, a Chinese general living sometime around 544-496 BC, who is the first known writer to discuss intelligence operations as an important part of warfare. In his still-popular book "The Art of War" (which remains Amazon's No. 1 best-seller in the "Economics and Statistics" category, is required reading at West Point, and in 2006 became a prop for a Paris Hilton photo shoot), Sun Tzu defined three types of spies: the secret informant w h o s h a re s m i l i ta r y i n fo r m a t i o n , t h e penetration spy who gets close to military leaders, and the disinformation agent who provides both true and false details to create confusion. The authors of "Stars and Spies" point out that Sun Tzu's teachings are most clearly evident today in Vladimir Putin's Russia. Andrew and Green title their first chap- ter "Golden Age: Theatre and Intelligence in the Reign of Elizabeth I" (1558–1603.) This era encompassed the prime of Shake- speare and his literary contemporaries, most notably the rapscallion actor, poet, playwright, and spy, Christopher Marlowe. He was one of many she employed to keep the crown's Catholic enemies from seizing power. Shakespeare and Marlowe likely collaborated until Marlowe's violent and still mysterious death, and there are refer- ences to Marlowe and to spying in many of