Adam,

1.Is this the book?

Victor Ostrovsky
"By way of deception (the training of an intelligence case officer in one a legendary Israeli spy organization)"?

2.I think that your "Search Engine Spy/Detective" Project is very promising.

Reason:
If we take the agent/spy/detective metaphor SERIOUSLY and analyze their challenges, we'll see that in order to learn how to make productive BUSINESS decisions we'd better study techniques that have nothing to do with common-sense business.

Simon