From NPR.

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 career as a British intelligence officer. Now, he writes about them. His latest espionage novel is called Spies and Other Gods and it’s chock full of spies, people pretending to be spies, secret operations and deceit. 

Host Mary Louise Kelly spoke with James Wolff about writing fiction as an ex-spy and when the truth can be stranger — and more tangled — than fiction. 

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