This is an excerpt from A Spy's Guide to Thinking, available at Amazon Spy gadgets are fun. Not Q’s rocket cars and jetpacks. Not James Bond’s remote detonators. The real world stuff. Crazy, complicated things. Fun, yes. Interesting, yes. But if you’re a spy in the field, you start to think. Do I want to bet lives – my life – on a gadget working? You say no to a lot of gadgets. You turn down most of what they send you. When you get one that might be good, you ask questions. D