Secret agent
A secret agent (also known as spy or covert operative) is a person involved in espionage. See also: intelligence service, identity creation Real-life secret agentsSee espionage for a list of real-life secret agents or alleged secret agents. Fictional secret agentsSince not much is publicly known about real-life secret agents, the popular conception of the secret agent has been formed largely by 20th and 21st century literature and cinema. Similar to the character of the private eye, the secret agent is usually a loner, sometimes amoral, an existential hero operating outside the everyday constraints of society. Joseph Conrad wrote a novel entitled The Secret Agent. The British spy television series Danger Man was broadcast in the United States under the title, Secret Agent. James Bond, the protagonist of Ian Fleming's novels who went on to spawn an extremely successful film franchise, is probably the most famous fictional secret agent of all. Fictional secret agents:
Parodies of secret agents:
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