The Spy Who Billed Me is definitely a blog to watch. Its content sits at the nexus of international politics and the private investigative community. Many investigative firms (although none that I've been affiliated with) have a decidedly geopolitical bent, focusing on security, threat assessment and other issues of significance to corporate and government clients alike. This is the regular beat for RJ Hillhouse, who according to her bio:

...has run Cuban rum between East and West Berlin, smuggled jewels from the Soviet Union and slipped through some of the world’s tightest borders. From Uzbekistan to Romania, she's been followed, held at gunpoint and interrogated. Foreign governments and others have pitched her for recruitment as a spy...

She's also a novelist (international thrillers, of course) and Fulbright scholar with a doctorate in Political Science from the University of Michigan, with a particular interest in the investigative industry -- or as she might prefer it --the Rent a Spy industry...

The Spy Who Billed Me....give it a look.

-- MDT

Labels: geopolitics, national security, RJ Hillhouse