Reading a good spy novel should be not unlike solving a chess problem. The outcome turns on a series of moves already encoded in the starting position, but you don’t feel manipulated or swindled ...

In The Oligarch’s Daughter, Joseph Finder delivers a gripping thriller that explores the dangerous intersection of wealth, power and international espionage. Paul Brightman, a rising… ...

While waiting for the arrival of friends to have coffee and discussion at the Barnes & Noble bookstore coffee shop in New Town, I was reading a spy novel by Daniel Silva called “Portrait of a ...

John Felix Charles Bryce, a British spy Ian Fleming based Bond's friend on, was married to the heiress Josephine Hartford, who once owned this home.

Chris Shaw's novel "The Manager" is set against the backdrop of the 1980 Winter Olympics and begins at a popular Saranac Lake landmark.

A recent first novel by a former MI6 operative, this has a terrific plot involving an Oxford spy ring, but also gives real insight into the modern way in which Russia runs its spies, and how it's ...

Rachel Kushner's new novel "Creation Lake" is an eco-espionage story wrapped in philosophy, deception and radical politics. Sadie Smith is the operational name of a freelance spy once cast off by ...

Spike Chunsoft released a new Spy x Family parody visual novel in the style of the Kamaitachi no Yoru game series.

Culture Writing a Spy Novel in an Age of Geopolitical Chaos The author and screenwriter Michael Idov has just published his first spy thriller.

Rachel Kushner's new novel "Creation Lake" is an eco-espionage story wrapped in philosophy, deception and radical politics. Sadie Smith is the operational name of a freelance spy once cast off by ...