This is a collection of real-life spy stories from the author of Horrible Histories, guaranteed to encourage the armchair agent in every reader. With a Famous Spies Fact File and details of the codes, disguises and tricks spies have used, Terry Deary lifts the lid on the intriguing world of international espionage...Alexander the Great has conquered Greece and Persia but the trouble now lies within and the ruthless emperor has no choice but to spy on his own army...It's 1940 and a German agent is caught in England. He must betray his own country or die...An internet spy befriends a fourteen-year old boy but with the KGB closing in he must go it alone...Sometimes fact can be stranger than fiction...