Thomas F. Murphy (born 1939) is an American author who began writing after he retired from the

CIA The Central Intelligence Agency (CIA; ) is a civilian foreign intelligence service of the federal government of the United States tasked with advancing national security through collecting and analyzing intelligence from around the world and ...

in 1992. He served in Brazil (1973-1975), Hungary (1977-1979), Zaire (1983-1986), and France (1989-1992). His novel ''Edge of Allegiance'' is considered "insider"

spy fiction Spy fiction is a genre of literature involving espionage as an important context or plot device. It emerged in the early twentieth century, inspired by rivalries and intrigues between the major powers, and the establishment of modern intellig ...

. The novel is the fictional postmortem of a failed Cold-War human intelligence (

HUMINT Human intelligence (HUMINT, pronounced ) is intelligence-gathering by means of human sources and interpersonal communication. It is distinct from more technical intelligence-gathering disciplines, such as signals intelligence (SIGINT), imager ...

) operation that the author calls the Bagatelle case.

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