Tag: France
The Scarlet Pimpernel, written by Baroness Emma Orczy and published in 1905, was based on a popular play also written by the Baroness first performed in 1903. The…
Fair Stood the Wind for France, written by H. E. Bates and published in 1944, was Bates’ first commercially successful novel. Although not strictly an espionage novel, it includes…
Charade staring Cary Grant as Peter Joshua, and Audrey Hepburn as Reggie Lampert, directed by Stanley Donen, and released in 1963, is a good example of a romantic-comedy-espionage-thriller, a genre crossover…
Spark was written by ‘John Twelve Hawks’ (a pseudonym) and published in 2014. It’s a science-fiction thriller about an assassin who literally has no emotions. Spark: Logline In…
Ashenden, written by Somerset Maugham and loosely based on his experiences as an MI6 agent during World War One, was published in 1928. Ashenden was one of the…
The Day of the Jackal, written by Frederick Forsyth and published in 1971, is widely regarded as a classic. Critics often mention it in lists of the top…