Eighty six years old and recently widowed, ex international businessman and reluctant spy Ollie Thomas decides it is still not too late to deal with his past. Arrested at the airport on suspicion of murdering another old man in Spain, Ollie's vivid reminiscences of his exotic working life and long love for wife, Sarah, blend to explain why he decides to track down and deal with his 'controller'.The old spy in “An Old Spy Story” is octagenerian, Oliver (“Ollie”) Thomas. During a long career spent trying to earn an honest living with his own export business, Ollie was also, reluctantly, carrying out parallel assignments in Africa, the Middle East and elsewhere only loosely connected to British Intelligence. But, by using threats and blackmail, his controller, Major Alex Donaldson, was forcing Ollie to help run his own secret money making schemes that included arms shipments to the IRA through Gadaffi and Libya, money laundering in Africa and assassination. Now aged eighty six, recently widowed and alone Ollie still struggles with guilt and anger over his past and decides to make one last attempt to track down and deal with Donaldson