Spycraft: Tricks and Tools of the Dangerous Trade from Elizabeth I to the Restoration is a 2024 non fiction book by Nadine Akkerman and Pete Langman, published by Yale University Press.
Spycraft was praised by Jonathan Bate in The Daily Telegraph as "an intriguing study ... of the mechanics of Elizabethan and Jacobean espionage" which is "anything but stodgy and over-long".
[1] In the Literary Review Peter Davidson wrote that "Spycraft is an excellent book, accessibly written, profoundly researched, cleverly illustrated and immensely readable.
[5] In her review in History Today Jackie Eales concludes that "Spycraft is not only a textual tour de force, but contains a wealth of explanatory images of the authors' recreations of locked letters and forged signature stamps".
[6] Diarmaid MacCulloch, writing in The Times Literary Supplement, described Spycraft as "a classic and incisive monograph, based on all the right primary sources, that also manages to be absorbing, illuminating and entertaining".