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Are you a dedicated collector of espionage novels? If yes, check out the following list to make sure you haven’t missed the classics of the genre. The Story of a British agent who is about to end his professional career, but is sent to one final assignment. While Ian Fleming pampers his hero with sultry seductresses, fast cars, and vodka martini, John Le Carre offers you believable characters and stories where spies act like spies. From Russia with Love, Ian Fleming (1957) Bond takes on Russia’s counter-intelligence agency SMERSH, who plots to kill the MI5 agent in the context of a carefully contrived scandal. The hugely successful 1963 film adaptation (starring Sean Connery) has turned this novel into a cult espionage book. Mr Verloc, a secret agent, gets involved in an anarchist conspiracy, but things go horribly wrong. The Secret Agent stands for everything that James Bond is not. Conrad makes a fine synthesis of politics, spying and moral anarchy to write an atypical spy classic that has multiple layers of meaning.
The 39 Steps by John Buchan (1915) On the eve of WWI, Richard Hannay — a bored London guy — gets entangled in an intricate web of codes and homicide. Buchan piles improbability upon improbability and brings about nothing profound. Read simply because it’s a brilliant story, brilliantly told. Check out the classic Hitchcock film too. More a hardboiled piece than a spy novel, Red Harvest tells the story of the Continental Op, who takes on an entire town to avenge the murder of an honest citizen. A gushing, violent masterpiece of crime fiction and the best Dashiell Hammett novel without question. Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy by John le Carré (1974) George Smiley is assigned to identify and destroy a double agent in British Intelligence. A really tricky novel where office politics and international espionage are hardly distinguishable. It’s unlike anything you get to read in spy fiction. Watch the film version starring Gary Oldman. Jason Bourne wakes up to find that his memory is gone.
Why someone wants him dead? What are his secrets? A great dose of adventure, action, and conspiracy with some surprising twists. The film adaptation, though pretty good, differs from the book. The Man Who was Thursday By G.K. Chesterton (1908) This classic spy story is about a detective who infiltrates a group of anarchists. The Man Who was Thursday is part mystery, part philosophy, and part fantasy. This is an allegorical tale, which needs multiple reading. Recommended for readers with a taste for thought-provoking books. Modesty and her lieutenant, Willie Garvin take on Brunel — the savage killer — in Central Africa and fight for the secret of the Impossible Virgin, a key to enormous wealth. Incorrect political attitudes, quirky characters, and lots of hand-to-hand combat make this action-adventure novel too much fun. Guns of Navarone, Alistair MacLean (1963) Five men sent to silence the Guns of Navarone. Can they do what an entire navy could not? A tense WWII thriller that was made into an equally good movie starring Gregory Peck.
Detailed military strategies and plot twists will keep you guessing till the end. What’s your favourite spy thriller?New York Times Best Seller List Your Name or Slogan in Glitter We Will Not ForgetSeptember 11Most spy novels have a comfortable air of familiarity. We readers can take moles in our stride. We have grown up with cut-outs and dead letter boxes. There’s little we don’t know about angst-ridden, morally fallible spooks in raincoats and sharp-suited, gun-toting agents in casinos. Mick Herron, however, takes a different approach from most other espionage writers. Real Tigers is the third novel in his ‘Slow Horses’ series. Its predecessor, Dead Lions, won the CWA Goldsboro Gold Dagger as the best crime novel of the year. The Slow Horses are a department made up of MI5 rejects — officers who have committed gross errors of judgment or made enemies of powerful figures in the organisation. (‘Persona non grata,’ muses one character. Latin for slow horse.’)
These misfits are condemned to a hell of clerical work in the depressing surroundings of Slough House, near London’s Barbican, in the hope that the sheer tedium will force them to resign of their own free will. Among them are a cokehead, a compulsive gambler, an alcoholic and a breathtakingly unlovely computer nerd. At their head is Jackson Lamb, a foul-mouthed tyrant whose standards of courtesy and personal hygiene have much in common with those of Superintendent Andy Dalziel, the creation of the late and much lamented Reginald Hill. The Slow Horses yearn to escape from drudgery and earn their return to the Park, MI5’s palatial headquarters in Regent’s Park, which glows in their memories like the Celestial City. Their chance comes when one of their number is kidnapped by a disgraced career soldier, one of the tigers of the title. From this point the novel explodes like a firecracker in all directions. Is the kidnapping part of a plot by the new but strangely recognisable Home Secretary — described as ‘a loose cannon with a floppy fringe and a bicycle’ — to emasculate MI5 and ease himself into No.10?