Whether you are travelling abroad, living in troubled lands, you are the potential target of criminals or sociopaths, or just what to live a quiet life; this book will help guide you to your goal. The authors have taken a sensible approach to providing citizens with an understanding of the theory and practice of spy tradecraft. They have applied their collective operational experience in addition to their academic training to separate truth from fabrication and to distil the voluminous amount of information on spies and spying to provide you, the reader, with an explanation of spy tradecraft.