How Did You Become Interested in Spies?

I was recruited by m i six before i left university. I thought it was both ridiculous and wonderful, like being in your own film really suddenly thinking, cosh, you know, i'm heading off to talk to spies. This can't really be ing. But even before john le carry, spies were avidly reading their own fiction,. then the fiction, in turn, informs the reality.