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Spies on the Sidelines: The High-Stakes World of NFL Espionage is a nonfiction book by debut author and former Special Agent Kevin Bryant. The book is being published by Rowman & Littlefield and will be released on 13 July 2022. In it Kevin discusses what happens when the art of espionage and the National Football League (NFL) collide. He explores the multitude of collection techniques that NFL teams use to spy on their opponents, as well as the defensive countermeasures utilized to defend against these. The book spans the entire history of the league and contains anecdotes from each and every NFL team. The book is being sold in hardcover, ebook, and audio book formats through the publisher and most major book retailers, including Amazon of course. For all of the purchase options you can view the book’s website at https://www.spiesonthesidleines.com. Here is what Brian Hooper, the president of the Atlanta chapter of the Association of Former Intelligence Officers had to say about the book: “Kevin Bryant’s Spies on the Sidelines is the single most revealing book about espionage in professional sports.” Below is a passage from the book that describes in detail what it is all about.

“While the phrase ‘three-letter agency’ is a euphemism for American spook organizations such as the CIA (Central Intelligence Agency) and the NSA (National Security Agency), the NFL is a three-letter agency in its own right. Behind the game day action of the NFL is a world much like the cloak-and-dagger realm of American intelligence agencies. The NFL has its own history filled with espionage-related stories that sound like something right out of the Cold War: spies disguised as reporters, military officers, and priests and even a dwarf playing the role of a baby being pushed in a stroller; covert surveillance of targets’ movements; hiding draft prospects by shuffling them in and out of hotels in aliases; tapped telephones, signals interception, decoy signals, encryption, code breaking, and radio frequency jamming; false flag operations; monitoring air traffic and airline passengers; spies scaling rooftops and telephone poles and clandestine photography undertaken from high-rise hotels with long-lensed cameras; peepholes, secret listening devices, surveillance photos relayed by zip line and whispered conversations masked by running water; stolen documents and trash cans sifted for secrets; subversion of individuals mired in debt; and a hilltop secured by Navy SEALs.”

So, if you’re a fan of reading about spying or the NFL, and especially if you’ve ever wondered if the New England Patriots are the only team involved in spying (they’re not!), this book is a must read. Eight years of research went into this first of its kind book that shines a light on a side of espionage that has never been explored before.

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