What is "spymaster"

Usage examples of "spymaster".

And now he could go to Sir Thomas Gower, his spymaster supreme, to tell him that Cleone Dubois was a lass of spirit who would serve them well.

The spymaster was swinging against the hull of the larger ship above him.

The spymaster, after ushering the officer into the audience chamber, had discreetly taken position against the wall next to the door.

He must tell his spymasters to stop searching for the leak in his security.

She was Theodora's spymaster and the chief of the Empire's unofficial secret police, the agentes in rebus.

His duties expanded, however, and he now directs Cba Faile in their activities, acting as a spymaster for Perrin, though Perrin doesn't think of him so.

The spymaster had not warned him that the traitorous General Aegidius had obtained a war galley to clear the way for his troop transports.

According to the rumors Higgins had picked up, she favored a hands-on style, very different from the remote spymaster approach, with multiple layers of cutouts, others in her line of work preferred.

There was no love lost, he knew, between Rana Sanga and the Malwa Empire's spymaster.

The Malwa spymaster was learning every single detail of every current or planned troop movement of every Roman military unit of any consequence in Syria, the Levant and Egypt.

Sir Basil wasn't a bad chap to work for but, like most spymasters, he greatly enjoyed being clever, which was something never fully appreciated out in the field, where the worker bees had wasps to worry about.