Espionage

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–noun 

1. the act or practice of spying. 

2. the use of spies by a government to discover the military and political secrets of other nations. 

3. the use of spies by a corporation or the like to acquire the plans, technical knowledge, etc., of a competitor: [industrial] espionage.  





 

Hartley resurfaced at festivals in 2006 with Fay Grim, a much-anticipated sequel to Henry Fool. In this espionage thriller that blithely satirizes the state of world security, Parker Posey reprises her role as Fay, the onetime lover of Henry Fool and the mother of his now 14-year-old child, who learns that Henry's infamous book Confessions actually harbors a number of covert secrets about the inanities and barbarities committed by transcontinental governments. 





　

A CIA agent who is currently in the process of writing a book loses the disc containing his only manuscript in this comedic tale of espionage that reunites filmmaking duo Joel and Ethan Coen with Intolerable Cruelty and O Brother, Where Art Thou? star George Clooney. 









　

"The spies share a genius for espionage



—and a life of terror and explosive violence. Sworn enemies, they have vowed to terminate each other—yet now they must become allies."