"Flesh participates in everything we do," the aged spy master once explained.

Yet the skull-faced spy master was not critical of his two aids.

But, like many of his fellow spies and spy masters, Gaston was an adventurer at heart.

No good spy master would get all his books published at the same place.

He had looked more like a farmer than a spy master.

Primakov, himself a former spy master (in foreign intelligence), began to move against businesspeople and politicians he thought corrupt.

A spy master runs multiple spies but is not necessarily a good spy.

He was a prosaic and pragmatic man, a spy master when he had time to work at it.

Could he find a way to get in touch with his spy masters even here in the battle zone?

Funny how naive a spy master can be.