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Six Days of the Condor – Book Review

Six Days of the Condor, written by James Grady and published in 1974, is a classic spy conspiracy thriller. It is probably best known nowadays from the movie adaptation…

SS-GB: Book and Television Miniseries Review

SS-GB is a classic work of alternative history, set in a world where Nazi Germany invaded Great Britain in 1940. Written by Len Deighton and published in 1978, it’s…

Spies Like Us: Movie Review

Spies Like Us stars Chevy Chase as Emmett Fitz-Hume and Dan Aykroyd as Austin Millbarge. It was directed by John Landis from a screenplay by Dan Aykroyd and…

The Day of the Jackal: Book Review

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…

YouWriteOn Book of the Year is A Kill in the Morning

A Kill in the Morning has won the YouWriteOn book of the year! This is how I felt when I found out: YouWriteOn’s owner, Ted Smith commented about A…

Ice Station Zebra – Book Review

Ice Station Zebra, written by Alistair Maclean and published in 1963, is a classic mystery/thriller set on a submarine in the Arctic. Ice Station Zebra: Logline When the…

Firefox: Book Review

Firefox is a Cold War technothriller written by Craig Thomas and published in 1977.  It’s widely regarded as a classic and often mentioned in lists of the top ten…

The Thirty-Nine Steps: Book Review

The Thirty-Nine Steps, written by John Buchan and published in 1915, was one of the first “conspiracy” spy thrillers. Critics regularly vote it one of the top ten spy…

The Spy Who Came in From the Cold: Review

The Spy Who Came in from the Cold, written by John le Carré and published in 1963, is a literary thriller addressing the amorality of spying and the cynicism…

Red Joan: Book Review

This is a guest post by Sarah Jasmon– author, journalist and copywriter. Red Joan, written by Jennie Rooney and published by Chatto and Windus in 2013, is loosely…