Many young males get into martial arts, guns and other weapons. We want to wear trench coats, our pockets crammed with miniature cameras, micro-cassette recorders, pens that shoot flame across the room. We want MacIntosh Powerbooks, which seem to be the latest de riguer spy equipment, if we believe the movies. We want to be spooks, loaded down with secret weapons, our fedoras rakishly tilted. Governments spy on each other, and sometimes on us.
Corporations spy on each other and their employees.
And some of us spy on our souses. We all have secrets - secrets we want to know and secrets we want to keep. That's where spy gadgets come in. Some to let you spy on the other guy, some to let you know if he is spying on you. They have names like Intercept and Interprobe, Discrete Intervention, Los Angeles Scotland Yard Detective Agency, Master PI Detectives, even the new-age sounding Millenium Investigative Agency.