Fiction: License to kill
The job of a spy is to gather information, not to carry out assassinations.
“A secret agent in a three-piece suit carrying a PPK under his left armpit and walking up to an adversary and pumping him in the brain — they don’t do that at all,” said Fred Rustmann, who worked as a CIA case officer for 24 years.
CIA case officers do face danger and carry guns for protection, but there is no such thing as a “license to kill.” Rack up a body count like Bond, who has killed 352 people in 22 films, and you might be in trouble.