Deane Barker

I watched Code Name: Emperor on Netflix.

Masquerade was an attempt to bring the Love Boat/Fantasy Island format to espionage.

I was reminded of the bit player from three consecutive James Bond movies who witnesses something surreal and subsequently questions his sobriety.

Tim used to be an employee of mine, when he worked in tech.

I got stuck in Boston due to weather, so I asked AI to recommend a spy novel.

I spent some time with an book devoted to the history and specification of the Minox camera.

TLDR: “Fantasticly addictive” This is a very, very good novel.

On the heels of Reading Maps, we have Movie Scene Maps, which appears to locate both plot locations and filming locations.

True Lies came to the historic theater in our local downtown.

A charcuterie board at The Copper Door in Bedford, New Hampshire.

I watched The Ipcress File from 1965.

TLDR: “Strange, but comprehensive” This is an odd little book.

I picked up Red Storm Rising yesterday, and quickly got completely engrossed in it.

I’ve always loved the opening scene of the original Mission Impossible.

TLDR: “A military masterpiece” I read this book in high school, 40 years ago.

There’s a fan theory that says Gene Hackman was playing the same character in two espionage thrillers, released 24 years apart.

This is a funny, 24-second video published by Ryan Reynolds where he’s reflecting on what’s great about filming with Michael Bay.

Magnum P.I. was always spy-adjacent.

I watched The 39 Steps, which is a Hitchcock movie from 1935.

For absolutely no particular reason, I watched the first episode of Scarecrow and Mrs.

Cryptome was always an odd thing.

Syriana from 2005 is my favorite kind of movie: it has lots of plot threads that overlap and come together in different ways.

Chases are all over the place in spy movies, but the second car chase in Ronin is one of the best on film.

Here’s a commercial for the Honda Del Sol from 1995.

Back in the mid-90s, there was a very short-lived primetime show called Fortune Hunter.

TLDR: “Interesting, but nothing valuable” I think I got this book because it was mentioned in How Big Things Get Done.

In a prior post, I mentioned the scene from Casino Royale where Vesper Lynd says, “I’m the money” and Bond responds, “…every penny of it.”

A few days ago, I posted about M’s speech to Bond in GoldenEye.