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A debut spy novel, Q.R. Markham's "Assassin of Secrets," was pulled Tuesday after its publisher said it discovered that numerous passages had allegedly been taken from other sources. Little, Brown ...
Why did the spy novel take so long to mature? Spying is as old as civilization itself, after all; but while agents of Joshua may have gone deep cover in Jericho, spy stories, as a discrete and at ...
Unsurprisingly, the spy’s quest as a structural metaphor, spying as a literary device, is not unfamiliar to other novelists. Even Kipling’s Kim, the first modern spy novel, uses espionage to ...
Little did I know. 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 ...
Real-life inspiration for your spy-novel writer's block From the Justice Department complaints against alleged deep-cover Russian spies that Rachel reported on last night: June 29, 2010, 12:36 PM EDT ...
This spy novel breaks barriers. It’s also a smart, riveting read. ‘American Spy’ is a morally nuanced and atmospheric political thriller. March 1, 2019. By Maureen Corrigan.
Books Q&A: Tess Gerritsen on her new book ‘The Spy Coast’ The "Rizzoli & Isles" author is already working on the follow-up to her new Maine-set pager-turner.
John le Carré‘s famous spy character George Smiley hasn’t retired quite yet. Nick Harkaway, le Carré’s son, is writing a new Smiley novel that will publish globally in fall 2024.. Smiley ...