THE TELEGRAPH: The 10 Greatest Spies Ever Seen On Screen (Henry Lewis)

The name’s Lewis. Henry Lewis. As the artistic director of Mischief – the team behind The Comedy About Spies, which is about to open in the West End – I’ve got secret agents on the brain. If I compiled a list of the 10 greatest ever seen, who would be on it? (They are all fictional, since the top spies in the real world are so good at what they do that we have no clue who they are.)

What even makes a spy a spy? Jack Ryan certainly does some ­spying, but technically he’s a CIA ­analyst. Inspector Gadget may well look the part, but I’m told officially that he’s a “bionic detective”. So, I’ve had Q check my working and am confident that the 10 secret agents below all qualify as especially espionagious.

10.     Agent J

The Men in Black: secret agents who specialise in extraterrestrials. Efficiently wiping the memories of pretty much everyone they encounter after they’ve completed a job, they can afford to be extremely rel­axed about concealing their identities (providing they don’t forget to remember their memory-wipers). The Men in Black can pull off … READ FULL ARTICLE