Spy Tip #7

Fighting like a spy means disguising a task as attempts to help. It means making acts of man seem like acts of God. 

Spy Tip #6

In a hostage situation any idiot can steal a gun and start shooting. It's a great way to get a bunch of innocent people killed. Keeping people alive means fighting like a spy.

Spy Tip #5

A wounded hostage is a good measure of how far a criminal's willing to go. They either want to keep the hostage alive or they don't. Which means more people are going to get hurt.

Spy Tip #4

There are a number of different choices when you take over a building by force. Do you keep the hostages face down on the floor or do you move them into a room together? How do you cut all lines of communications out and how do you deal with the place's security measures? Whatever your style hostile take-overs are about one thing - total dominance.

Spy Tip #3

Government agents have to stay within the law, but they still have plenty of options to hit you below the belt. Sometimes a bullet to the head is a lot easier than a slow death drowning in red tape.

Spy Tip #2

When someone starts acting like there's an extra person in the conversation it's a pretty good bet they're wearing a wire. The question is whose taping you? The police? The Feds? Or a government agent you blackmailed awhile back and were hoping never to see again.

Spy Tip #1

"As a spy you have a lot of ways to get information. You can get it with a lock pick. You can get it with a listening device. But most often more than all the other information gathering techniques combined, you get information with a free lunch."