David Wise

New York's new espionage museum, SPYSCAPE in Midtown Manhattan, certainly looks the part. The dark concrete walls, polished concrete floors, ... SPYSCAPE's chief of staff, tells CNN Travel. "So it really is a very authentic look at how the spy world thinks about what it takes to be different types of spies." ...

A smoky voice on the phone, like roughened velvet, has a confidential matter to discuss. She says her name is Patricia Neal — yes, the actress. She needs a private detective, an expert in old New York mysteries and cracking codes. The man for the case, she heard, is David Wise. “Are you free now?

Beginning in 2010, C.I.A. sources in China began disappearing; a dozen were reported executed and several more imprisoned. What had seemed a major success in establishing a network of C.I.A. spies inside China had been turned into a devastating intelligence failure. The C.I.A. and F.B.I., suspecting a ...