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

Never seen it but...

[(Anonymous)]

The QUEEN & COUNTRY comic series by Greg Rucka at Oni is explicity influenced by it. It's rather good, operatives out in the field sections interesting, office politics stuff even more so. The Hand of The Author is felt in one major storyline, but I'm hoping that there's an unrevealed plot reason for that.

Stephen Shevlin