Espionage Aficionados discussion

A.R. wrote: "Just wanted to get people's views. Has the whole Snowden affair changed the game for spy writers of the future? I'm envisaging it will be pretty tough to write anything now that doesn't reference t..."

I don't see the Snowden thing changing anything. In 'Operation Saladin', published last summer, I included a lot of SIGINT [signals intelligence] to help the plot/action. SIGINT'S been around since the creation of GCHQ!!! Roger

The NSA figures prominently in my book, The Girlfriend Experience, which I put out in December of 2012. Then the whole Snowden thing broke. One reviewer panned my book as "well past its sell-by date."The Girlfriend Experience