For the past 16 years, Mark Greaney has woven these worlds together more than 20 novels, including the Gray Man series, with ...
Spy novels first came into being at the beginning of the 19th Century, reflecting distrust around political and military conflicts of the time – see James Fenimore Cooper's 1821's The Spy ...
Len Deighton published his first spy novel, The Ipcress File, shortly after the blockbuster success of the very first Bond movie, Dr. No. When The Ipcress File became a bestseller, Bond producers ...
Rachel Kushner takes inspiration from these scenarios in her Booker Prize-shortlisted novel, Creation Lake. The 56-year-old ...
The latter, with a star-studded cast that includes Gary Oldman and Kristin Scott Thomas, is an adaptation of Mick Herron’s spy novels that have made him something of an heir apparent to the late ...
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 ...
Creation Lake is currently longlisted for the Booker Prize. Our reviewer believes it’s one of the most important novels to have been published in recent memory.