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A Kill in the Morning Paperback – Launch Day!

Exciting news – the A Kill in the Morning paperback is out today! This morning, I found it nicely displayed in my local book shop: My Journey I’ve…

The Wild Geese: Book and Movie Review

The Wild Geese was written by Daniel Carney and published in 1978, just before the release of the movie of the same name. Curiously, although the book is not a novelisation of…

Notorious: Movie Review

Notorious, starring Cary Grant as Devlin, Ingrid Bergman as Alicia and Claude Rains as Sebastian, was directed by Alfred Hitchcock from a screenplay by Ben Hecht and released…

The Quiller Memorandum: Book and Movie Review

The Quiller Memorandum (originally titled The Berlin Memorandum) was written by Adam Hall and published in 1965. It introduced the long running super-spy character, Quiller. It’s often thought to be one of…

Iron Sky: Movie Review

Iron Sky is a 2012 alternate history black comedy about a world where the Nazis fled to the moon in 1945. In 2018 they invade Earth. It was…

The Mohorovičić Discontinuity:
A Short Story

Kola Peninsula, Soviet Union, 24 November 1979 …two, one… cameras are rolling, comrade. Tonight, excitement is mounting at the Kola Ultra-deep Borehole. Scientists calculate the world’s deepest mine…

Kingsman: The Secret Service – Movie Review

Kingsman: The Secret Service is a comedy-thriller spy movie released in 2015. It was directed by Matthew Vaughn, and stars Colin Firth as Harry Hart and Taron Egerton as Gary ‘Eggsy’ Unwin. Kingsman: Title The title uses a…

Our Man in Havana: Book Review

Our Man in Havana, written by Graham Greene and published in 1958, is one of the funniest and best spy novels ever written. Our Man in Havana: Title…

The Afrika Reich – Book Review

The Afrika Reich was written by Guy Saville and published in 2011. It’s a military thriller set in an alternate history where there was a truce between Britain…

Spy Novel Plots – Four Great Spy Story Ideas

Do you want to write a spy novel? Do you have a great high concept idea? Awesome! We are 0.1% of the way to fame and fortune! What?…