Tradecraft: What Spymasters Can Teach Us About Investing

Many corporate officers believe that the best way to succeed in business without really trying is quite simple – it’s the age-old practice of lying on the financial statements. To navigate this cloak-and-dagger world of cross and double-cross, where everyone has a price, everyone is someone else’s asset, and to trust someone’s word is to lose your money, you need a set of rules for survival. You need Tradecraft.

Each chapter of Tradecraft is constructed in a similar manner. First, a traditional tradecraft rule is enumerated, with a real-life example from the world of espionage. Then the investment application is introduced, with relatively recent real-life examples. Finally, an instructional section is given illustrating the tradecraft principle that could have been applied, and presumably still can be deployed going forward.