Book of Donmon Teith

The position of spy fiction is largely synonymous in popular culture with ideas of patriotism and national security, with the spy himself indicative of the defe

Fiction about spies and spying - a genre of which British writers have generally been the most successful exponents - is a phenomenon which began in the twentie

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The celebrated author of Double Cross and Rogue Heroes returns with a thrilling Americans-era tale of Oleg Gordievsky, the Russian

Set on the eve of the First World War, across oceans and continents, steamliners and cross-country trains, David Downing’s complex and thrilling new espionage

The author has chosen seventeen of the most important or representative British spy novelists to write about. He presents some basic literary analysis and criti