*** There are many ways of setting the table for a spy story. It would be a pity to miss such an extraordinary miniseries on behalf of some minutes of physical love between the male characters. If you feel strongly against these scenes, perhaps you should skip them, but I would still advise to see the show. I have found them necessary to the plot and by any means with a pornographic intention as someone has suggested here. An initial warning: there are explicit scenes of male nudity and overt gay sex interaction in the first chapter which may be shocking or disturbing to certain people.
#MASCULINE GAY MEN SPY PROFESSIONAL#
He also writes M/M historicals under the pen name Dirk Hessian, and M/M romance with coauthor Sabb under the pen name Shabbu.įor a loosely constructed travel through habu's professional life, read his Flying Highįor background information on his works, visit his blog at.
#MASCULINE GAY MEN SPY FULL#
Under the habu name he writes a full spectrum-and heat level-of M/M and bisexual works for the publishing houses of Excessica and BarbarianSpy. He now lives in a picturesque and historical Midatlantic/Upper South state university town, with an accommodating spouse, where he writes, edits, teaches, and indulges himself. He has lived extensively in East and Southeast Asia, the Middle East, and Europe as an embassy-based intelligence agent, which influences the settings and plots of many of his stories. Habu, a bisexual former supersonic spy jet pilot, intelligence agent, academic, mainstream book editor, and diplomat, is a published mainstream novelist, short story writer, and essayist under other names and in another dimension of his life.
There is a nasty, cynical, and even arousingly sexual underbelly to it, and these stories don’t shy away from showing that, or from ignoring the difficult questions of the morality of taking advantage of the vulnerability and weakness of men who have a weakness for men in the pursuit of chits in the power games of nations. The reality of spying is that it isn’t all Agent 007 glamour. These sixteen stories show an aspect of intelligence work very much in the vein of Graham Greene and John LeCarré, but delving into spy craft operations that go well beyond where either of these authors dared to go. And you can be assured they will give you the most useful information and continue to give it to you if you continue to give them what they want to have, but cannot acknowledge they have gotten or want to have-and holding over their heads the threat of collapsing their whole world if they don’t continue to cooperate. And it is in being especially prepared to do so if what they want the most is illicit-that is, for instance, connected to male homosexuality. It, rather, is the “giving” to someone, who knows what you want to know, what they want most in exchange for the information they know. The easiest, most assured way of collecting intelligence is not torture. The prolific gay male short story writer, habu, delivers the first of two volumes of spy tales spotlighting the use of male-on-male sexuality to serve intelligence gathering operations.