Secret agent
- Spy redirects here, for alternate use see Spy (disambiguation)
A secret agent (also known as spy or covert operative) is a person involved in espionage.
See also: intelligence service, identity creation
Real-life secret agents
See espionage for a list of real-life secret agents or alleged secret agents.
Fictional secret agents
Since not much is publicly known about real-life secret agents, the popular conception of the secret agent has been formed largely by 20th and 21st literature and cinema. Similar to the character of the private eye, the secret agent is usually a loner, sometimes amoral, an existential hero operating outside the everyday constraints of society.
The British spy television series Danger Man was broadcast in the United States under the title, Secret Agent.
Mention Joseph Conrad's The Secret Agent.
Fictional secret agents:
Parodies of secret agents:
