THE DANGLE

Weekly “cloak and swagger” in your inbox

True spy mayhem every Thursday AM

from the desk of Lars Emmerich, slightly-above-average spy thriller author.

Ten minutes a week on the world's second-oldest profession.

  • THE FILE — one true spy story a week, told long. Documented history only — the operations that actually happened, with the parts that sound invented left in, because those are usually the parts that are real.
  • The apocryphal drawer — the stories too good to check, graded in the open: documented, plausible-but-unproven, or myth. You always know which one you're holding. No legend gets laundered into fact on my watch.
  • Release radar and the gadget drawer — what's worth your evening in books, film, streaming and podcasts — dates and platforms checked so you don't have to — plus one piece of tradecraft hardware, from the genuinely brilliant to the deeply stupid.

Written for people who love all things cloak-and-dagger, and who care to know what's true and what isn't, at least as far as the public record is concerned. I'm definitely not afraid to speculate (I write spy novels, after all), but I'll always let you know when I have no proof. This newsletter is free because it's the only recruitment method which doesn't devour my kids' college fund.

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