Killer Satellites — Philip Kirk

1980s Spy Thriller. Butler is an agent for the private Bancroft Institute. For many years, Butler, who has a first name but hates it and therefore doesn't use it ever so the reader never finds out what it is, worked as an agent for the CIA. On the one hand he was considered, certainly by himself, to be one of the top men the agency had. On the other, he was extremely opinionated and vocal about his dislike of the agency's policies. This led to his hating every supervisor he was given. At the start of the series, the vociferousness of his objections has led the agency to finally fire him. Suddenly without a job and feeling understandably sorry for himself, he is open to a meeting with people from the Bancroft Institute, especially when it appears that the Institute has set him up to be arrested for murder unless he helps them. The Bancroft Institute is comprised of dedicated men and women determined to thwart the evil machinations of the vast military-industrial complex of the western world. Dubbed Hydra by the Institute, this loose federation was itself dedicated to the subjugation of the free world. Only through the Institute could their actions be countered. They disguise their real work by posing as an international think tank and research organization.