Thomas F. Murphy (born 1939) is an American author who began writing after he retired from the

CIA The Central Intelligence Agency (CIA ), known informally as the Agency and historically as the Company, is a civilian intelligence agency, foreign intelligence service of the federal government of the United States, officially tasked with gat ...

in 1992. He served in Brazil (1973-1975), Hungary (1977-1979), Zaire (1983-1986), and France (1989-1992). His novel ''Edge of Allegiance'' is considered "insider"

spy fiction Spy fiction is a genre of literature involving espionage as an important context or plot device. It emerged in the early twentieth century, inspired by rivalries and intrigues between the major powers, and the establishment of modern intelligen ...

. The novel is the fictional postmortem of a failed Cold-War human intelligence ( HUMINT) operation that the author calls the Bagatelle case.

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