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	Spy novels
		The history of the spy novel is almost as long as the history of the crime novel.
		Smiley became a major character, a spy master fighting his opposite number Carla, in the succeeding novels and has remained so until the more recent ones - he was pensioned off with the cold war.
		Nigel West has written a few spy novels, but his more interesting books are his accounts of various parts of British intelligence and security.
	www.janeriks.no /Books/spy.htm (834 words)

	SPY Notes dissects the hip urban novel for the student
		Today's trash novel comes in subtler clothing, is entitled Bright Lights, Big City or Less Than Zero and is made into a critically unsuccessful motion picture before disappearing from the national consciousness.
		This light mocking attitude was missing, however, in SPY Notes, the editors' simultaneous parody of Cliffs Notes and the works of hip urban novelists including Jay McInerney, Tama Janowitz, and Bret Easton Ellis.
		SPY Notes reveals one incredible, utterly mockable fact: 11 of the 15 plots summarized hinge upon the death of the protagonist's mother.
	www-tech.mit.edu /V109/N49/spy.49a.html (784 words)

	Joseph Finder - Non-Fiction (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The spy novels of the 20th century, however, centered on villains who, whether fascist or Communist, were recognizably modern -- if on the wrong side of modernity.
		In fact, it was in an atmosphere of paranoia, of free-floating anxiety remarkably like the current one, that the spy novel was born.
		Winks considers the inventor of the modern spy novel to be John Buchan, the author of ''The Thirty-Nine Steps'' (1915), a paranoid vision of German spies nestled in the English countryside.
	www.josephfinder.com /author/nonfic05.asp (1237 words)

	Wikinfo \| Spy fiction
		Early spy novels include Rudyard Kipling's Kim (1901)?based on The Great Game (espionage, politics) between Europe and Asia, centered on Afghanistan; and Baroness Orczy's The Scarlet Pimpernel (1905), recounting the undercover exploits of an English aristocrat's attempts to rescue French aristocrats during the French Revolution.
		This initial novel was a grim story set in World War I but in the next five or six books, set in Nazi Germany or in World War II England, a lighter tone prevailed, although the events depicted remained equally grim.
		Spy fiction that utilizes elements of science fiction ("sci-fi") is sometimes referred to as "spy-fi".
	www.wikinfo.org /wiki.php?title=Spy_fiction (876 words)

	Kevin Jung - The Spy Thriller Genre - History (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The history of the spy novel begins with the interest in spy activities during early 1900's.
		As a result, the spy novel was born.
		Since the spy's practice in culture has always been a mystery, allowing the public to experience the "thrill" of their profession can put them into the action themselves and help them escape from the harsh reality of the mid-twentieth century.
	www.wam.umd.edu /~kjung/ENGL278W/history.html (515 words)

	Justice and Moral Courage in The Spy
		The Spy and the course it set for the American novel bears comparison to the evolution of the British social novel because of its spirit of inquiry, and such a comparison is necessary to distinguish what is essentially American about Cooper’s methods of inquiry, especially into the law.
		The oppressive presence of the law in these novels exhibits the evil of the absence of justice for an individual and the particular group he represents, and public sentiment is intended to be aroused by depictions of legal injustices.
		Louis Cazamian claims that Paul Clifford was the first novel to display the main features of the British social novel: a "novel with a social thesis; a novel which aims at directly influencing human relations, either in general, or with reference to one particular set of circumstances" (8).
	external.oneonta.edu /cooper/articles/suny/1995suny-carleton.html (4345 words)

	How did the spy novel get invented? - By Stephen Metcalf - Slate Magazine
		Pulp ValentineEric Ambler and the invention of the spy novel.
		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 least minimally self-respecting category of fiction, lagged far behind detective fiction, which had Poe and Wilkie Collins to lend it early pedigree.
		Spy fiction, Ambler himself believed, is disreputable because spying itself is disreputable—it is warfare by underhanded means—not to mention mentally unsettling.
	www.slate.com /id/2142465 (1417 words)

	What are the origins of the spy novel? in The AnswerBank: Arts & Literature
		While not strictly a spy story, it has many of the elements that are the hallmarks of the genre: subterfuge, assassinations and dark lives lived by shadowy people with Middle-European accents.
		Spy novels have often been successfully adapted for film and TV, something that has helped to sustain the genre's popularity.
		The successors to the heyday of spy fiction are the suspense thrillers of writers such as Frederick Forsyth and Robert Ludlum.
	www.theanswerbank.co.uk /Article1093.html (639 words)

	Spy fiction - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Together they wrote hundreds of spy novels, between 1900 and 1914, but the formulaic stories have been judged as of little literary merit.
		In 1939, Glasgow-born author Helen MacInnes's first espionage novel, Above Suspicion, was published in Britain (1941 in the U.S.A.), beginning a 45-year, highly successful career in which critics praised her for her literate, fast-paced, intricately plotted suspense novels set against contemporary history.
		The Hunt for Red October (1984), the first novel of Tom Clancy, was a major publishing sensation and also made into a film, foreshadowing the vast popular and critical interest in the best-selling novel and highly anticipated film The Da Vinci Code (2003-2006).
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Spy_novel (1969 words)

	Tremor of Intent: An Eschatological Spy Novel - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Tremor of Intent is a serio-comedic spy novel by the English Author Anthony Burgess.
		First published in 1966, it was in many ways a reaction to the heavy-handed, humorless spy fiction of John Le Carré, and to Ian Fleming's James Bond, a character that Burgess felt to be a relic of Imperialism.
		The subtitle, "An Eschatological Spy Novel," refers to the novel's depiction of the Cold War as a form of hostile symbiosis, an "ultimate conflict" in which "good" and "evil" are no longer adequate terms.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Tremor_of_Intent:_An_Eschatological_Spy_Novel (300 words)

	Cooper's Revisions for His First Major Novel, The Spy (1821-31)
		For The Spy, the task of determining Cooper's intention, at least with respect to the Bentley Standard Novels edition, is unusually straightforward because, for The Spy, editors have available the virtually complete physical document containing the revisions Cooper made for the London publisher in 1831.
		Frequently in the novel Katy laments the possibility of Harvey's loss of fortune, and for her of course, loss of the principal reason for entering into matrimony with him.
		Cooper often deleted or diminished Isabella's theatrics, as in Illustration 15, where "The lady burst into a flood of tears" replaces 5 lines of "clasping," "rolling," "beaming" and "flushing." Cooper conveniently removed Isabella from the scene by embedding a stray bullet from a guerrilla warrior in her bosom.
	external.oneonta.edu /cooper/articles/suny/1999suny-schachterle.html (2724 words)

	Amazon.com: A Spy's Life: A Novel: Books: Henry Porter (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		This is a spy yarn full of suspense, action, unexpected plot twists and the fascinating detail of covert spy operations where everyone is a liar, even the good guys.
		Robert Harland, a former British spy, begins the novel by surviving a plane crash only to realize that this is the least of his worries.
		Key events in this spy's life have come back to haunt him and now he is not only fighting for his life, but the lives of his loved ones.
	www.amazon.com /Spys-Life-Novel-Henry-Porter/dp/0743215605 (1846 words)

	Perle's pulp fiction - The Boston Globe
		Dick) Cheney's satirical third novel, "The Body Politic," concerns a Republican vice president who dies of a heart attack during sex with his mistress.
		The novel was meant as a roman clef of the Cold War.
		The whole novel drips with contempt for those who would negotiate with evil, as the following exchange between Waterman and his sidekick, Parisi, indicate.
	boston.com /news/globe/ideas/articles/2004/01/11/perles_pulp_fiction (987 words)

	A complex, captivating spy novel
		This encounter takes place in a hotel room where Diana makes it clear that she is a liberated woman unwilling to be tied to any man, even one as good as her lover appears to be.
		As one might expect, the monologues and unpunctuated dialogues are written in the colloquial language of everyday speech, while the narrative and descriptive passages are more coherent and, on occasion, stylistically elegant.
		Indeed, the denouement is one of the novel’s major attributes.
	www.mrs.umn.edu /~cabrerav/resena.htm (965 words)

	A History of the Espionage Novel (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The espionage novel has a major conundrum at its heart: spooks are supposed to keep secrets, not blab them.
		By now, of course, the spy's lonely life has become a metaphor for every type of existential piety -- but until the mid-20th century, spooks were considered seedy, shady stool-pigeons, liars, and traitors.
		Often termed the first realistic spy novel, this semi-fictional account of Maugham's WWI adventures is actually a collection of loosely linked (and now almost unreadably dull) stories.
	www.mysteryguide.com /hist-espionage.html (276 words)

	CBC Radio \| Canada Reads \| Next Season: Reader's Guide
		In the spy story, the revolutionary agent finds a one-word mysterious cryptogram of jumbled capital letters which he is unable to decipher (p.
		It was viewed in France as a novel of liberation and in Toronto as “almost unbearably moving” (Joyce Marshall, CBC, January 2, 1966, “The Arts This Week”).
		It is a novel of passion and dissent, a story that reflects a historical era.
	www.cbc.ca /canadareads/cr_2003/readersguide.html (1004 words)

	Spy novelist kicks off Texas Book Festival - Life & Arts
		Furst, who has been writing for more than 20 years, sets most of his spy novels in the 1930s and 1940s.
		The historical spy novel has historically been commercially sound, something Furst considered when choosing a genre.
		Over his writing career, he accumulated boxes and boxes of research for his novels, which are now housed in the Harry Ransom Center.
	www.dailytexanonline.com /news/2006/10/26/LifeArts/Spy-Novelist.Kicks.Off.Texas.Book.Festival-2402859.shtml (637 words)

	The Colossus: The Spy Novel Archives
		Section 44 of the Spy Novel, in which we return to North America for a time, in a long passage completely devoid of witty repartee.
		And unfortunately, the Spy Novel is the kind of thing that requires about three unbroken hours of concentration to issue.
		In the Spy Novel, the only characters whose existence I was aware of from the first moment were Walsh, The Undersecretary (Alexander), Giacomo, Crowe, and Park.
	www.colossusblog.com /mt/archives/cat_the_spy_novel.html (15683 words)

	The Seattle Times: Arts & Entertainment: Drama of false identities transcends spy-novel genre (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		My admiration for Littell's novels, notably "The Defection of A.J. Lewinter" and "The Sisters," is no secret, but I think that, at age 70, he has outdone himself with this dizzying, dazzling portrait of a spy who has so many identities — legends, in spook-talk — that he no longer knows who he is.
		On it is written "The spy Kafkor." The dazed man, bruised and burned, is pushed up to the road and given a last cigarette.
		Lincoln Dittmann, for example, believes he was at a Civil War battle and was almost executed as a Confederate spy — in precisely the manner that we saw the spy Kafkor killed at the outset.
	seattletimes.nwsource.com /html/artsentertainment/2002283558_legends23.html (909 words)

	Metroactive Books \| Charles McCarry
		This supposed comedy of spy manners is serious stuff, however, and soon the tragic implications of such human frailties are made all too clear.
		The method of the novel, of course, is pure Faulkner, and it is worked with the same expertise, although the material being explored does not occur in the backwaters of Mississippi but in the world of international politics.
		The final installment in the Christopher series, The Last Supper (1983)--which Richard Condon claims is "like no other spy novel ever written"--unites all the characters of the previous novels and all the subjects referred to in them, to give not only a complete biography of Christopher but also a history of the American intelligence community.
	www.metroactive.com /papers/metro/08.14.97/cover/lit5-9733.html (1032 words)

	Amazon.fr : The Peregrine Spy: Livres en anglais: Edmund P. Murray (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Murray's third novel (after The Passion Players) is a complex spy story set in 1978- 1979 in Iran around the time of the fall of the Shah and the Islamic revolution.
		CIA agent Frank Sullivan is sent to Iran to judge the durability of the Shah's regime and the increasing influence of an unknown Islamic cleric named Ayatollah Khomeini, as well as to keep an eye on Soviet activities in the region.
		From the former media advisor to the Iranian military during the Islamic revolution comes a tight, lavishly detailed spy thriller about an advisor to the Iranian military during the Islamic revolution who is really a CIA agent.
	www.amazon.fr /Peregrine-Spy-Edmund-P-Murray/dp/031230367X (558 words)

	Len Deighton: Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Spy (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		At the start of this novel, the main characters (Major Mann of the CIA and the narrator, a British agent) pick up a Soviet defector in the middle of the Sahara Desert.
		This is an unusual start for a spy novel, where it would be more common for the plot to work up to the retrieval of the defector.
		But here the point of the novel is the investigation of some leaks of US research to the Russians, and it is this which makes Professor Bekuv valuable, as he was one of the beneficiaries before becoming disenchanted with the system and receiving a punishment appointment as a scientific advisor in Mali.
	www.geocities.com /athens/academy/6422/rev1245.html (281 words)

	Spy Novel Law Politics & Cuban Counter Revolutionaries
		A novel set several years in the future, the United States’ first female President has taken office with a mission to make some changes.
		With the end of the Cold War writers of thriller/suspense novels have had to search for a new foe for their heroes to confront.
		Also, oddly enough, in both novels the characters at some point are escaping from Cuba by boat only to be caught off the Florida Keys in approaching storms or hurricanes.
	www.jaylillie.com /reviews (1645 words)

	Popular Perceptions of an Ally: the Special Relationship in the British Spy Novel - The Churchill Centre
		Three spy novelists, all immensely popular in both Britain and the United States, wrote books which created pictures in the public mind of the special relationship: Ian Fleming, John le Carre and Len Deighton.
		However, in his last novels, Fleming shows an uneasiness with the special relationship and a suspicion that a Corporate Takeover is imminent.
		The image of America as ally in le Carre is one that goes from non-entity in the early novels to an unfriendly Corporate Takeover in the later ones.
	www.winstonchurchill.org /i4a/pages/index.cfm?pageid=539 (727 words)

	The New Yorker : critics : books
		There was an intelligibility if not a friendly intimacy in the old contest, one between two large, idealistic, rough-mannered nations seeking to maintain their spheres of influence short of tripping nuclear war.
		Martin Odum, to give the novel’s confusing hero his most often used name, is an ex-C.I.A. operative who has, he feels, lost his real identity in the shuffle of “legends”—false identities, with carefully worked-out histories and trade skills, assumed for particular episodes of espionage.
		That novel is airy and comic, speedy and understated; it shares many grim ingredients with “Legends,” including a C.I.A. whose presumptuous meddling destroys lives, but it has a warmth in its portraits of Russia and individual Russians that extends to the American heroine and her romantic involvement in the machinations of the state.
	www.newyorker.com /critics/books/articles/050613crbo_books (1379 words)

	The Messenger by Daniel Silva: The Spy Novel Comes of Age
		The worthy sucessor to the Cold War spy novel is the terrorist thriller.
		The bait in the spy game is a supposedly newly uncovered van Gogh painting, one that he finished in the last days of his life and that has been hidden away by private owners for generations.
		Unlike the good vs. evil scenarios in the cold war novels, this thriller leaves us with the realization that although one battle may be won or lost, the war is likely to continue.
	mysterycrimefiction.suite101.com /article.cfm/the_messenger_by_daniel_silva (335 words)

	Allan Topol / AllanTopol.Com
		Spy Dance is a must-read for fans of espionage thrillers, and deserves a place on the bookshelf alongside the works of Tom Clancy, Robert Ludlum and even John LeCarre.
		The novel starts with the very persuasive premise that the American rejection of the threat to the Shah was a major factor in his being replaced by Khomeini.
		A truly thoughtful and relevant spy novel -- that may teach its readers a good deal as it entertains -- is relatively uncommon, and it couldn't have come at a better time.
	www.allantopol.com /rview.htm (4715 words)

	Seattle Arts & Lectures - John Le Carré (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Best known for his superpower espionage novel The Spy Who Came in from the Cold (1963), John Le Carré introduced the world of spy intrigue to a generation of eager readers, exploring complicated issues of Cold War policy through fiction.
		Le Carré is the author of seventeen novels, nine of which have become films or television miniseries.
		With this novel, which received the Somerset Maugham Award, Le Carré is credited with establishing a new, more realistic genre of espionage literature as a reaction to the James Bond cult.
	www.lectures.org /lecarre.html (727 words)

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