Readers go wild for Conway’s series of spy novels about Agent Argylle, but she’s a movie-world version of a sad, lonely single woman. This means that she’s gorgeous and rich, has a high ...

With this in mind, I planned a trip through Continental Europe, the setting of my favorite Cold War–era espionage films and ...

‘Occupation: Spy' brings together eight BBC radio thrillers based on the espionage novels of celebrated writer Ted Allbeury (1917 – 2005). The dramas were all produced in the 1980s and many boast a ...

Stephenson is a writer of exuberant prose who revels in embracing big ideas, often in the fields of science and technology. He has written historical fiction, speculative fiction and cyberpunk in ...

While waiting for the arrival of friends to have coffee and discussion at the Barnes & Noble bookstore coffee shop in New ...

Gary Oldman has found the role of a lifetime in Jackson Lamb, the hard-drinking, hygiene-challenged spy who commands a band ...

I recall Otto Penzler, the owner of The Mysterious Bookshop in New York City, telling me that mystery, crime fiction, and ...

“Creation Lake” has been short-listed for the Booker Prize, and I can hear the rebuttals from the novel’s defenders: Kushner is not writing a spy novel—she is subverting the spy nove ...

Rachel Kushner has attempted a daring, possibly foolhardy, fusion with her latest book, which is her take on the spy novel. Creation Lake is a blend of genre fiction and literary fiction.

The recipient of several major literary awards and a former Guggenheim Fellow, Kushner, who has a background in political economy and United States foreign policy, uses her fiction to explore the ...

Gary Oldman is the god of acting, or at least one of the gods. His latest incarnation as Jackson Lamb, the unwashed, unkempt and verbally abusive former spymaster put out to pasture by MI5, in ...

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 ...