Meet a real spy, like James Bond, or Jason Bourne

On today’s Briefing you’re going to meet a real life Jason Bourne... or James Bond...

It’s very rare that spies speak out publicly, as you’ll hear, when they join a secret service they basically have to ghost their old life... stop contact with all their friends and family.

But the former French spy we're speaking to, has moved to Australia and he’s written about his 9 years in the French secret service under the guise of fiction using a fictional alias... Jack Beaumont... the book’s called The Frenchman.

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