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The German spy drama by a Yorkshireman – who knows nothing about Germany or spies

In 2023, two former BND heads penned a joint article in a German newspaper, describing the agency as…
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“I’ve read a lot of #spynovels and I don’t like the #genre as it is sometimes characterized. For example, I don’t have a huge amount of time for #IanFleming. What I’m interested in is those #novels that are #literarynovels smuggled in through the generic window.” fivebooks.com/best-books/t... #books

The Best Literary Spy Novels

“I’ve read a lot of #spynovels and I don’t like the #genre as it is sometimes characterized. For example, I don’t have a huge amount of time for #IanFleming. What I’m interested in is those #novels that are #literarynovels smuggled in through the generic window.” fivebooks.com/best-books/t... #books

The Best Literary Spy Novels

“I’ve read a lot of #spynovels and I don’t like the #genre as it is sometimes characterized. For example, I don’t have a huge amount of time for #IanFleming. What I’m interested in is those #novels that are #literarynovels smuggled in through the generic window.” fivebooks.com/best-books/t... #books

The Best Literary Spy Novels

“I’ve read a lot of #spynovels and I don’t like the #genre as it is sometimes characterized. For example, I don’t have a huge amount of time for #IanFleming. What I’m interested in is those #novels that are #literarynovels smuggled in through the generic window.” fivebooks.com/best-books/t... #books

The Best Literary Spy Novels

“I’ve read a lot of #spynovels and I don’t like the #genre as it is sometimes characterized. For example, I don’t have a huge amount of time for #IanFleming. What I’m interested in is those #novels that are #literarynovels smuggled in through the generic window.” fivebooks.com/best-books/t... #books

The Best Literary Spy Novels

Castle Minerva, a 1955 psychological spy novel by Victor Canning. A British ex-spy has to babysit a prince. Lots of moral murkiness. Bad guys doing things for comprehensible motives. Gritty realism in the Graham Greene-Eric Ambler style.Superb.

My review: https://vintagepopfictions.blogspot.com/2024/10/victor-cannings-castle-minerva.html

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Castle Minerva, a 1955 psychological spy novel by Victor Canning. A British ex-spy has to babysit a prince. Lots of moral murkiness. Bad guys doing things for comprehensible motives. Gritty realism in the Graham Greene-Eric Ambler style.Superb.

My review: https://vintagepopfictions.blogspot.com/2024/10/victor-cannings-castle-minerva.html

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Castle Minerva, a 1955 psychological spy novel by Victor Canning. A British ex-spy has to babysit a prince. Lots of moral murkiness. Bad guys doing things for comprehensible motives. Gritty realism in the Graham Greene-Eric Ambler style.Superb.

My review: https://vintagepopfictions.blogspot.com/2024/10/victor-cannings-castle-minerva.html

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Castle Minerva, a 1955 psychological spy novel by Victor Canning. A British ex-spy has to babysit a prince. Lots of moral murkiness. Bad guys doing things for comprehensible motives. Gritty realism in the Graham Greene-Eric Ambler style.Superb.

My review: https://vintagepopfictions.blogspot.com/2024/10/victor-cannings-castle-minerva.html

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Castle Minerva, a 1955 psychological spy novel by Victor Canning. A British ex-spy has to babysit a prince. Lots of moral murkiness. Bad guys doing things for comprehensible motives. Gritty realism in the Graham Greene-Eric Ambler style.Superb.

My review: https://vintagepopfictions.blogspot.com/2024/10/victor-cannings-castle-minerva.html

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The Ambushers, published in 1963, Donald Hamilton’s sixth Matt Helm spy thriller. Helm has to assassinate a rebel leader and rescue an American agent. Lots of double-crosses and moral murkiness and some scores to settle. Superb spy fiction.

My review: https://vintagepopfictions.blogspot.com/2024/09/donald-hamiltons-ambushers.html

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The Ambushers, published in 1963, Donald Hamilton’s sixth Matt Helm spy thriller. Helm has to assassinate a rebel leader and rescue an American agent. Lots of double-crosses and moral murkiness and some scores to settle. Superb spy fiction.

My review: https://vintagepopfictions.blogspot.com/2024/09/donald-hamiltons-ambushers.html

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The Ambushers, published in 1963, Donald Hamilton’s sixth Matt Helm spy thriller. Helm has to assassinate a rebel leader and rescue an American agent. Lots of double-crosses and moral murkiness and some scores to settle. Superb spy fiction.

My review: https://vintagepopfictions.blogspot.com/2024/09/donald-hamiltons-ambushers.html

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The Ambushers, published in 1963, Donald Hamilton’s sixth Matt Helm spy thriller. Helm has to assassinate a rebel leader and rescue an American agent. Lots of double-crosses and moral murkiness and some scores to settle. Superb spy fiction.

My review: https://vintagepopfictions.blogspot.com/2024/09/donald-hamiltons-ambushers.html

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The Ambushers, published in 1963, Donald Hamilton’s sixth Matt Helm spy thriller. Helm has to assassinate a rebel leader and rescue an American agent. Lots of double-crosses and moral murkiness and some scores to settle. Superb spy fiction.

My review: https://vintagepopfictions.blogspot.com/2024/09/donald-hamiltons-ambushers.html

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Philip Atlee's The Irish Beauty Contract is a routine 1966 Joe Gall spy novel. Embittered ex-CIA man Joe Gall is now a US Government hitman. This time he has to watch someone but not kill him. The background is good but the book lacks energy.

My review: https://vintagepopfictions.blogspot.com/2024/08/philip-atlees-irish-beauty-contract.html

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Philip Atlee's The Irish Beauty Contract is a routine 1966 Joe Gall spy novel. Embittered ex-CIA man Joe Gall is now a US Government hitman. This time he has to watch someone but not kill him. The background is good but the book lacks energy.

My review: https://vintagepopfictions.blogspot.com/2024/08/philip-atlees-irish-beauty-contract.html

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Philip Atlee's The Irish Beauty Contract is a routine 1966 Joe Gall spy novel. Embittered ex-CIA man Joe Gall is now a US Government hitman. This time he has to watch someone but not kill him. The background is good but the book lacks energy.

My review: https://vintagepopfictions.blogspot.com/2024/08/philip-atlees-irish-beauty-contract.html

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Philip Atlee's The Irish Beauty Contract is a routine 1966 Joe Gall spy novel. Embittered ex-CIA man Joe Gall is now a US Government hitman. This time he has to watch someone but not kill him. The background is good but the book lacks energy.

My review: https://vintagepopfictions.blogspot.com/2024/08/philip-atlees-irish-beauty-contract.html

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Philip Atlee's The Irish Beauty Contract is a routine 1966 Joe Gall spy novel. Embittered ex-CIA man Joe Gall is now a US Government hitman. This time he has to watch someone but not kill him. The background is good but the book lacks energy.

My review: https://vintagepopfictions.blogspot.com/2024/08/philip-atlees-irish-beauty-contract.html

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Peter O’Donnell’s The Impossible Virgin starts when a Soviet spy dies in a bush hospital in Tanzania. Modesty Blaise is the temporary nurse. There's an impossible virgin who must remain a virgin, and a gorilla. A fine 1971 Modesty Blaise novel.

My review: https://vintagepopfictions.blogspot.com/2024/08/peter-odonnells-impossible-virgin.html

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Peter O’Donnell’s The Impossible Virgin starts when a Soviet spy dies in a bush hospital in Tanzania. Modesty Blaise is the temporary nurse. There's an impossible virgin who must remain a virgin, and a gorilla. A fine 1971 Modesty Blaise novel.

My review: https://vintagepopfictions.blogspot.com/2024/08/peter-odonnells-impossible-virgin.html

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Peter O’Donnell’s The Impossible Virgin starts when a Soviet spy dies in a bush hospital in Tanzania. Modesty Blaise is the temporary nurse. There's an impossible virgin who must remain a virgin, and a gorilla. A fine 1971 Modesty Blaise novel.

My review: https://vintagepopfictions.blogspot.com/2024/08/peter-odonnells-impossible-virgin.html

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Peter O’Donnell’s The Impossible Virgin starts when a Soviet spy dies in a bush hospital in Tanzania. Modesty Blaise is the temporary nurse. There's an impossible virgin who must remain a virgin, and a gorilla. A fine 1971 Modesty Blaise novel.

My review: https://vintagepopfictions.blogspot.com/2024/08/peter-odonnells-impossible-virgin.html

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Peter O’Donnell’s The Impossible Virgin starts when a Soviet spy dies in a bush hospital in Tanzania. Modesty Blaise is the temporary nurse. There's an impossible virgin who must remain a virgin, and a gorilla. A fine 1971 Modesty Blaise novel.

My review: https://vintagepopfictions.blogspot.com/2024/08/peter-odonnells-impossible-virgin.html

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West of Jerusalem, from 1967, one of a handful of Gérard de Villiers Malko spy novels translated into English. Austrian prince and CIA agent Malko has to impersonate the Director of the CIA who has jumped to his death. Fine action and suspense.

My review: https://vintagepopfictions.blogspot.com/2024/08/malko-west-of-jerusalem.html

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West of Jerusalem, from 1967, one of a handful of Gérard de Villiers Malko spy novels translated into English. Austrian prince and CIA agent Malko has to impersonate the Director of the CIA who has jumped to his death. Fine action and suspense.

My review: https://vintagepopfictions.blogspot.com/2024/08/malko-west-of-jerusalem.html

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West of Jerusalem, from 1967, one of a handful of Gérard de Villiers Malko spy novels translated into English. Austrian prince and CIA agent Malko has to impersonate the Director of the CIA who has jumped to his death. Fine action and suspense.

My review: https://vintagepopfictions.blogspot.com/2024/08/malko-west-of-jerusalem.html

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West of Jerusalem, from 1967, one of a handful of Gérard de Villiers Malko spy novels translated into English. Austrian prince and CIA agent Malko has to impersonate the Director of the CIA who has jumped to his death. Fine action and suspense.

My review: https://vintagepopfictions.blogspot.com/2024/08/malko-west-of-jerusalem.html

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West of Jerusalem, from 1967, one of a handful of Gérard de Villiers Malko spy novels translated into English. Austrian prince and CIA agent Malko has to impersonate the Director of the CIA who has jumped to his death. Fine action and suspense.

My review: https://vintagepopfictions.blogspot.com/2024/08/malko-west-of-jerusalem.html

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Jessica Mann, Funeral Sites (1982) #1980s #Books #SpyNovels

Jeffrey Archer, A Matter of Honour (1986) #1980s #Books #SpyNovels

Jeffrey Archer, A Matter of Honour (1986) #1980s #Books #SpyNovels

Favourite fictional secret agent:

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Favourite fictional secret agent:

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Inge Carnelle, Sexplosion (1967) #1960s #Books #SpyNovels

Inge Carnelle, Sexplosion (1967) #1960s #Books #SpyNovels

Inge Carnelle, Sexplosion (1967) #1960s #Books #SpyNovels

Jimmy Sangster was a hugely successful screenwriter. His 1968 novel Touchfeather slots neatly into the “glamorous sexy lady spy” genre. A glamorous airline stewardess is really a spy. Cynical, and has some real punch. A great sexy spy thriller.

My review: https://vintagepopfictions.blogspot.com/2024/06/jimmy-sangsters-touchfeather.html

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Jimmy Sangster was a hugely successful screenwriter. His 1968 novel Touchfeather slots neatly into the “glamorous sexy lady spy” genre. A glamorous airline stewardess is really a spy. Cynical, and has some real punch. A great sexy spy thriller.

My review: https://vintagepopfictions.blogspot.com/2024/06/jimmy-sangsters-touchfeather.html

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Jimmy Sangster was a hugely successful screenwriter. His 1968 novel Touchfeather slots neatly into the “glamorous sexy lady spy” genre. A glamorous airline stewardess is really a spy. Cynical, and has some real punch. A great sexy spy thriller.

My review: https://vintagepopfictions.blogspot.com/2024/06/jimmy-sangsters-touchfeather.html

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Jimmy Sangster was a hugely successful screenwriter. His 1968 novel Touchfeather slots neatly into the “glamorous sexy lady spy” genre. A glamorous airline stewardess is really a spy. Cynical, and has some real punch. A great sexy spy thriller.

My review: https://vintagepopfictions.blogspot.com/2024/06/jimmy-sangsters-touchfeather.html

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Jimmy Sangster was a hugely successful screenwriter. His 1968 novel Touchfeather slots neatly into the “glamorous sexy lady spy” genre. A glamorous airline stewardess is really a spy. Cynical, and has some real punch. A great sexy spy thriller.

My review: https://vintagepopfictions.blogspot.com/2024/06/jimmy-sangsters-touchfeather.html

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Rod Gray, The Lady from L.U.S.T. #6: To Russia with L.U.S.T. (1969) #1960s #Books #SpyNovels

Rod Gray, The Lady from L.U.S.T. #6: To Russia with L.U.S.T. (1969) #1960s #Books #SpyNovels

Rod Gray, The Lady from L.U.S.T. #6: To Russia with L.U.S.T. (1969) #1960s #Books #SpyNovels

Rod Gray, The Lady from L.U.S.T. #6: To Russia with L.U.S.T. (1969) #1960s #Books #SpyNovels

The Dragon’s Eye is a 1969 spy novel by Scott C.S. Stone. A reporter is forced to aid the defection of a high Chinese official. Makes good use of exotic settings. Captures the severely paranoid flavour of the Cold War. A good pulp spy thriller.

My review: https://vintagepopfictions.blogspot.com/2024/05/scott-cs-stones-dragons-eye.html

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The Dragon’s Eye is a 1969 spy novel by Scott C.S. Stone. A reporter is forced to aid the defection of a high Chinese official. Makes good use of exotic settings. Captures the severely paranoid flavour of the Cold War. A good pulp spy thriller.

My review: https://vintagepopfictions.blogspot.com/2024/05/scott-cs-stones-dragons-eye.html

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The Dragon’s Eye is a 1969 spy novel by Scott C.S. Stone. A reporter is forced to aid the defection of a high Chinese official. Makes good use of exotic settings. Captures the severely paranoid flavour of the Cold War. A good pulp spy thriller.

My review: https://vintagepopfictions.blogspot.com/2024/05/scott-cs-stones-dragons-eye.html

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The Dragon’s Eye is a 1969 spy novel by Scott C.S. Stone. A reporter is forced to aid the defection of a high Chinese official. Makes good use of exotic settings. Captures the severely paranoid flavour of the Cold War. A good pulp spy thriller.

My review: https://vintagepopfictions.blogspot.com/2024/05/scott-cs-stones-dragons-eye.html

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The Dragon’s Eye is a 1969 spy novel by Scott C.S. Stone. A reporter is forced to aid the defection of a high Chinese official. Makes good use of exotic settings. Captures the severely paranoid flavour of the Cold War. A good pulp spy thriller.

My review: https://vintagepopfictions.blogspot.com/2024/05/scott-cs-stones-dragons-eye.html

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Owen Sela, The Bearer Plot (1975) #1970s #Books #SpyNovels

Derek Lambert, I, Said the Spy (1980) #1980s #Books #SpyNovels

Desmond Cory’s Trieste, published in 1954, a Johnny Fedora spy thriller. Johnny's girlfriend, a freelance spy captured by the Soviets, is part of an exchange of captured spies. A good solid tough Cold War spy thriller with some nice twists and a femme fatale.

My review: https://vintagepopfictions.blogspot.com/2024/05/desmond-corys-trieste-aka-intrigue.html

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Desmond Cory’s Trieste, published in 1954, a Johnny Fedora spy thriller. Johnny's girlfriend, a freelance spy captured by the Soviets, is part of an exchange of captured spies. A good solid tough Cold War spy thriller with some nice twists and a femme fatale.

My review: https://vintagepopfictions.blogspot.com/2024/05/desmond-corys-trieste-aka-intrigue.html

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