John le Carré had it easy during the Cold War. But how do we write espionage thrillers now? Updated yesterday at 5:45 a.m. EST Joseph Finder is the author, most recently, of the novel “The ...

Forsyth was also a Royal Air Force pilot, reporter, and secret agent who wrote around twenty novels that have sold over 70 million copies worldwide. True, half-true, or fiction? In 1971, when former ...

Espionage fiction continues to captivate readers with the genre's thrilling blend of secrets, betrayals, and missions. In 2023, Publishers Weekly got literary journalist-turned-novelist Patrick ...

Beyond historical fiction, Cooper is also credited with writing some of the earliest American spy novels. The Spy (1821) and The Bravo (1831) are among the first examples of espionage fiction in ...

Spy stories appeal to our anxieties As a genre, espionage was first born from literature, where spy novels and spy fiction grew in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, alongside increasing ...

Spy fiction is a British invention. So is its less well-traveled sibling, the detective novel. A third entertainment that the British elevated into an artform is the class system. This too is a ...

Spy fiction is inherently a bit conservative, but not in the sense you think. In fact, many of the best novels in the genre don’t even presuppose a right and a wrong political side—there’s ...

15 Captivating WWII Novels — These Historical Fiction Reads Will Transport You Back in Time! Melissa D'Agnese and Carissa Mosness Thu, December 5, 2024 at 4:59 PM UTC ...

Spy fiction first surfaced in the 19th century, popularised by the novelist James Fenimore Cooper, who drew inspiration from the American War of Independence for his elaborate tales of espionage.