Thomas F. Murphy (author)

Thomas F. Murphy (born 1939) is an American author who began writing after he retired from the CIA in 1992. He served in Brazil (1973-1975), Hungary (1977-1979), Zaire (1983-1986), and France (1989-1992).

His novel Edge of Allegiance is considered "insider" spy fiction. The novel is the fictional postmortem of a failed Cold-War human intelligence (HUMINT) operation that the author calls the Bagatelle case.