In the spy novel, as in real life, there are generally three ways of exposing a conspiracy. One is for any of the participants in the conspiracy to break with it and to expose his or her involvement. This takes an extremely courageous individual and, while it may occur in fiction, its occurrence in real life is somewhat rarer. The second means of exposure involves individuals who have unknowingly participated in the conspiratorial planning of an event but who did not realize it until later. These individuals, also a very small real world number, will expose the inner workings of the conspiracy at great peril to themselves. The final method of exposing a conspiracy is for a single investigator, or a small group of investigators, to uncover conspiratorial designs in the events of the past or seemingly unrelated events of the present, or, perhaps, a combination of both. This is the approach favored by most genre authors.
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