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Book SynopsisThis volume presents 13 essays on the Spy Thriller in the 20th century and includes a critical introduction to the subject. Each essay combines historical and aesthetic theory with practical criticism. Authors covered range from Joseph Conrad and John Buchan to Ian Fleming and John Le Carre.
Table of ContentsPreface and Acknowledgements - Notes on the Contributors - Introduction: The Spy Thriller: A Genre under Cover?; C.Bloom - Cracked Bells and Really Intelligent Detonators: Dislocation in Conrad's The Secret Agent; A.R.Lee - The Adventure of Spying: Erskine Childers's The Riddle of the Sands; D.Seed - The Hunter and the Hunted: The Suspense Novels of John Buchan; D.Butts - John Buchan: The Reader's Trap; M.Donald - The Story of an Encounter: Geoffrey Household's Rogue Male; M.J.Hayes - Ian Fleming's Enigmas and Variations; M.Woolf - The Great Game? The Spy Fiction Len Deighton; D.Jones - Are You Telling Me Lies David? The Work of John le Carr ; M.J.Hayes - Reading John le Carr ; R.Bradbury - The Well Wrought Structures of John le Carr 's Early Fiction; D.Seed - Professionalism and Popular Fiction: The Novels of Arthur Hailey and Frederick Forsyth; D.Jones - Spy Fiction and the Vietnam War; J.Simons - Index
