Category: Graham Greene

Spy Writers Club

On By JeffIn Eric Ambler, Graham Greene, John Le Carré, Len Deighton, Lionel Davidson, spy, spy fiction, Spy nonfiction9 Comments

The first rule of Spy Club. Don't talk about Spy Club. 12 men received the invitation. On an unseasonably cool afternoon at the end of June they made their way across England to a back room of the Savoy Hotel. They came singly or in pairs, pushing through the wooden revolving doors and strolling anonymously …

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John le Carré’s Post-Cold War Fiction – Robert Lance Snyder Interview Part Two

On By JeffIn Eric Ambler, Graham Greene, Interview, John Le Carré, Len Deighton, Lionel Davidson, Robert Lance Snyder, spy, spy fiction, spy news, Spy nonfiction, The Pigeon Tunnel, The Spy Who Came In From The Cold, Uncategorized3 Comments

We continue our discussion with Robert Lance Snyder in advance of the release of his new book, John le Carré's Post-Cold War Fiction.  Read part one here. Jeff Quest: Le Carré has managed to stay relevant in a way that his other contemporaries still writing, like Frederick Forsyth or Charles McCarry, haven’t. McCarry in particular released a book …

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John le Carré’s Post-Cold War Fiction – Robert Lance Snyder Interview Part One

On By JeffIn Eric Ambler, Graham Greene, Ian Fleming, Interview, John Le Carré, Robert Lance Snyder, spy fiction, Spy nonfiction, The Pigeon Tunnel, The Spy Who Came In From The Cold, Uncategorized4 Comments

I am pleased to welcome to the blog Dr. Robert Lance Snyder. Dr. Snyder has written the upcoming book John le Carré's Post-Cold War Fiction. I haven't read his book yet, but he has previously written The Art of Indirection in British Espionage Fiction and edited the spy fiction of Paradoxa, both of which I've …

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