The KnowHow Book of Spycraft

This book is all about keeping secrets. It shows you how to set up secret meeting places and a secret post office, and how to disguise your messages and maps and write secret codes and signals. On the first page you will meet the Black Hat Spy. Watch out for the tricks he plays in Spy Trick – these are things real spies have done. This book was even used in evidence at at a high court spy trial in 1993 when witness Oleg Gordievsky testified that the book gave away the KGB’s tradecraft. The author, Falcon Travis, remains a mystery to this day. One of the first Usborne books to be published, reissued for the 40th anniversary of Usborne Publishing in 2013.