It’s that I am, in every way, clandestinely challenged. (Although I do have a AAA card that comes in handy when I have car trouble.) And it’s not just the fact that I’ve never been a spy or covert agent of any kind.
There is no CIA, NSA, or FBI experience for me to call upon. (Or perhaps they hammered out their early drafts on microfiche.)
I’m sure it also helped them come up with ideas while staring at the blank page. Their personal experiences imbued their works with an aroma of authenticity.
Ian Fleming, Graham Greene, and John le Carré were also spies who worked in the shadows before writing about it. Before writing about chocolate factories and giant peaches, Roald Dahl was a British secret agent during World War II.
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