British Intelligence Is Taking Advice From a Kid’s Book Series—That’s a Bad Idea
The headline stopped me in my tracks as I scrolled through Twitter: “U.K. Is Using Children as Undercover Spies.”
“It can’t be,” I thought. “Surely British intelligence isn’t actually taking advice from the Alex Rider books?”
A staple of my youth, the novels written by Anthony Horowitz center on a 14-year-old British superspy who’s recruited by MI6 after his secret agent uncle dies. Alex Rider uses his youth as a cover to foil terrorist plots against the United Kingdom.
