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1. spybrary.com › top120spyauthorsTop 125 Best Spy Authors Ranked by Tim Shipman for Spybrary

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   Dec 4, 2021 · Are there 125 spy authors worth the trouble? Randall Masteller’s brilliant site, Spy Guys + Gals, currently lists nearly 2,000 different spy series, from many hundreds of authors. He currently gives 149 of them a grade of A or better. Of these, not all are pure spy fiction, but his site is a great resource and it has helped me find many great ...

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   Dec 14, 2021 · Tim Shipman of the Sunday Times shares with us his top 120 spy authors ranked but reveals he won't feature in his top spy writers list.

4. spybrary.com › the-other-170-must-read-spy-writersThe Other 170 Must Read Spy Writers by Tim Shipman

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   Mar 22, 2022 · Tim Shipman of the Sunday Times shares with us the best spy writers that did not make his top 125 list but are still worth reading.

5. reedsy.com › discovery › blog40 Best Spy Novels of All Time | Reedsy Discovery

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   • The Spy Who Came in from the Cold by John le Carré. Buy on Amazon. Le Carré’s name has come to be synonymous with the spy genre, and it was this very book that propelled him to international acclaim.
   • Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy by John le Carré. Buy on Amazon. Another well-known title from le Carré, Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy continues in the same fictional realm set up in le Carré’s previous spy books.
   • The Bourne Identity by Robert Ludlum. Buy on Amazon. Jason Bourne is rescued by fishermen, the sole survivor of an attack at sea. When he comes to, he’s suffering from amnesia, unable to remember anything about himself or his past life outside of the intermittent flashback.
   • Eye of the Needle by Ken Follett. Buy on Amazon. This award-winning classic (and Ken Follett’s first bestseller) follows a German spy, nicknamed ‘The Needle’ due to his signature use of a needle-pointed blade when killing his victims.

6. malwarwickonbooks.com › best-spy-novelistsThe best spy novelists writing today - Mal Warwick On Books

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   Sep 10, 2024 · The 12 novels of Alex Berenson’s thrilling John Wells spy series. And you can always find my most popular reviews, and the most recent ones, on the Home Page. The best spy novelists actively writing today continue the tradition of Eric Ambler, Graham Greene, Helen MacIness, and John le Carré.

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   Aug 8, 2022 · Tim Shipman has ranked his favourite 125 spy authors, in this panel we discuss his method for ranking so many spy writers and our panel share what they think of his list!

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   How many top spy writers are there?

   • Tim Shipman is sharing his 120 top spy writers in ranking order, for Spybrary. He shared the following message as he begins the countdown from 100. Before we get into the Top 100, I want to mention a few spy authors who likely won’t be appearing, primarily because I have not read them, or read enough by them.

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   How many Spy books are there?

   • Randall Masteller’s brilliant site, Spy Guys + Gals, currently lists nearly 2,000 different spy series, from many hundreds of authors. He currently gives 149 of them a grade of A or better. Of these, not all are pure spy fiction, but his site is a great resource and it has helped me find many great books.

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   Who are the best spy novelists?

   • If you read spy thrillers, consider dipping into the work of these other excellent authors: And you can always find my most popular reviews, and the most recent ones, on the Home Page. The best spy novelists actively writing today continue the tradition of Eric Ambler, Graham Greene, Helen MacIness, and John le Carré.

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   Who wrote Spy books?

   • With John Buchan, Eric Ambler, Graham Greene, Ian Fleming and Len Deighton, he is the writer who advanced and elevated the spy novel through its history, but this is to miss the point. The point is that the books themselves are so absolutely bloody brilliant in plotting, language and character that they bear re-reading like no other spy author.

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   How many spoof spy novels are there?

   • Then there are 20 novels featuring the character Trevor Anderson, codenamed “0008”, which author William Knoles published under the pseudonym Clyde Allison . Donald Westlake, the hugely accomplished crime writer also penned a spoof spy novel, A Spy in the Ointment.

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   When did spy novels become popular?

   • And Alfred Hitchcock popularized the genre with the release in 1935 of The 39 Steps, adapted from the novel by John Buchan, one of the best spy novelists of his time. This post was updated on September 10, 2024. During the 1930s, 40s, and 50s the genre blossomed with the novels of Eric Ambler, Graham Greene, and Helen MacInnes.

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9. www.economist.com › eight-of-the-best-spy-novelsEight of the best spy novels - The Economist

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   Nov 24, 2023 · Eight of the best spy novels. Former spooks make especially strong authors. Photograph: LMK MEDIA. Nov 24th 2023. “K IM”, PUBLISHED in 1901, may be the first spy novel. Rudyard Kipling ...