Editor-in-Chief Nitin A Gokhale spoke to Vikram Sood, a career intelligence officer for 31 years who retired in 2003 after heading India’s external intelligence service, the Research and Analysis Wing.
In his latest book, The Unending Game, Mr Sood has deconstructed the shadowy world of spies, from the Cold War era to the age of global jihad, from surveillance states to psy-war and cyberwarfare, from gathering information to turning it into credible intelligence.