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The Odessa File, Frederick Forsyth’s second novel after his bestselling debut, The Day of the Jackal, was published in 1972. It was also a bestseller and was filmed…
Swastika Night was written by Katharine Burdekin and published in 1937 under the pseudonym “Murray Constantine”. It is remembered primarily as the first novel to portray a world…
Come Into My Parlour, written by Dennis Wheatley and published in 1949, was the sixth of Dennis Wheatley’s novels featuring secret agent Gregory Sallust—a series that critics sometimes…
A Legacy of Spies is a John le Carré novel published in 2017. It’s a parallel story to The Spy Who Came in From the Cold, within a…
Deutschland 83, created by Anna and Jörg Winger and released in 2015, is a spy thriller about a young East German agent in West Germany. It stars Jonas…
Atomic Blonde, released in August 2017, starring Charlize Theron and James McAvoy and directed by David Leitch, is a super-stylish and action-packed spy thriller with a convoluted plot. It’s set in…
One of the best things about writing alternative history novels is putting my characters in the cockpit of my favourite alternative history vehicles. I think there’s something fascinating about being able to…
Bulldog Drummond was written by ‘Sapper’ (a pseudonym of Cyril McNeile) and published in 1920 to great commercial success. It spawned a long-running franchise of novels and movies that lasted into the…
The Madagaskar Plan by Guy Saville is the sequel to his bestselling alternate history thriller, The Afrika Reich. In The Afrika Reich the protagonist, Burton Cole, attempted to assassinate the German…
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…