‘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 ...

It’s absolutely fascinating” he said. “I hope one day we get the details about how all this worked. It’s just going to be one of those absolute spy novel kind of stories.” ...

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 ...

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 ...

With “Polostan” he enters the realm of the spy novel, and introduces us to young Dawn Rae Bjornberg, a.k.a. Aurora Maximovna Artemyeva, whose Depression-era childhood shuttles her back and ...

The spy-novel genre of the 1960s offers one measure for comparison, and their authors, to paraphrase psychologist Carl Jung, ...

“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 ...

He has now struck gold, potentially, by being entrusted with the first John le Carré novel to be set on stage, a major one at ...

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 ...

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 ...