There is the FBI, who conduct spy operations on criminal organizations like the mafia, within the USA. to our enemies and rivals abroad, spying on Russia, the Taliban, etc.
There are the traditional CIA spies who look outside of the U.S. In the United States, spies come in many flavors. For our purposes, however, a spy is more the Bond or Bourne model of secret agent working directly for a state entity. The actual definition of the term "spy" is not Bond per se, but the people Bond gets to betray their own nations. The popular definition is that of a secret agent like James Bond, working for their home state, cultivating contacts and obtaining intelligence. Strictly speaking, we'll be using the popular definition of "spy" rather than the literal one. Some spies are little more than scouts, while other spies infiltrate the highest levels of an enemy's state, private, and military apparatus, subverting systems to obtain information that will help the state that employs them. The illustrations are filled with lots of humor – in fact, they made me start to wonder who is enjoying being a spy more, Spy Guy, or The Chief, the latter of which seemed to be loving every minute of this! I enjoy the clever text, great alliteration and rhyming, and big, bold, but muted, colors of the illustrations.Spies have been a feature of statecraft since the dawn of civilization. “Spy Guy” has a story line that cannot be described as anything less than totally adorable, as “manly” as this father/son spy team is. Will Spy Guy land a “Mission Accomplished” or will another noisy situation make him fail? But alas, this mission is a fail too – Spy Guy is full of sneezes and burps and just cannot seem to find a way to spy quietly! The Chief tells him he can master the art of undercover operations if he can manage to spy on The Chief. The Chief dispenses words of advice, and joins Spy Guy in disguise as they peek around trees, and sneak on their tippy-toes, through town, on a mission. He probes his dad, the “Chief” (how adorable is this?!) for the secret to spying, to remedy these not-so-secret situations. He is doing too much talking, squeaking, and his creeping is entirely too cute for onlookers to ignore. His surveillance operations come to a screeching halt because Spy Guy has not quite mastered the art of doing things quietly this of course is the number one “must” of being a secret agent. Spy Guy is on a super-secret, undercover mission to become a better sleuth.
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