NPR's Mary Louise Kelly speaks with James Wolff, the pseudonym of a former British intelligence officer who now writes about them in spy novels. His latest book is Spies and Other Gods.

There’s keeping a low profile and then there’s author James Wolff. Not his real name. It's a pseudonym. James Wolff had a ...

When the call came in to the duty officer at MI6 headquarters on the evening of 4 March 2018, it was met with surprise and alarm. One of their agents was lying in a hospital bed, apparently poisoned.

John le Carré's characters were the opposite of James Bond. Like Bond creator Ian Fleming, le Carré was a veteran British intelligence officer who wrote spy novels. But unlike Fleming's action hero, ...

On Monday, the Kremlin claimed it had uncovered another spy in the British embassy in Moscow, and was expelling the second secretary, one Albertus Janse van Rensburg. The Russians’ determination to ...

Philip Seymour Hoffman's "engrossing" British spy thriller is on TV tonight. A Most Wanted Man follows Issa Karpov, a political refugee from Chechnya whose arrival in Hamburg sparks the suspicion of ...

The British spy whose body was discovered in a padlocked duffel bag, spawning a number of conspiracy theories, was likely suffocated or poisoned to death, a forensic pathologist testified Monday. The ...

Len Deighton, a British author known for his spy novels including “The Ipcress File,” “Funeral in Berlin” and “The Billion-Dollar Brain,” died on Sunday, the BBC reported. He was 97. Deighton’s ...