Thomas F. Murphy (author)

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Thomas F. (Francis) Murphy (born 1939)^[1] is an American author who only began writing after he retired from the CIA in 1992.^[2] He served in the Dominican Republic (1967), Brazil (1973-1975), and Hungary (1977-1979).^[3]

His novel Edge of Allegiance is considered "insider" spy fiction. The novel is the fictional postmortem of a failed Cold-War HUMINT operation that the author calls the Bagatelle case.

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