The Sandbaggers

[james_davis_nicoll]

I borrowed a friend's DVD collection of this 1980s (?) British espionage show. So far I have seen one episode, one that seemed to be (probably accidentally) the Anti-Bond: the explicit moral is that effective espionage is not a matter of daring and glamourous agents risking their lives out in the field but of careful planning by a bunch of well-informed bureaucrats in the home country beforehand.

Comments

[pecunium.livejournal.com]

It's a very good show, and more realistic than one might suppose. The work lacks glamour, but the details are engrossing.

TK