Spy Fiction References

General

  • Denning, Michael, Cover Stories. Narrative and Ideology in the British Spy Thriller (London; New York, Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1987), pbk.
  • Greene, Graham & Hugh Greene (eds), The Spy’s Bedside Book (London: Folio Society, 2018).
  • Masters, Anthony, Literary Agents. The Novelist as Spy (Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1987).
  • McCormick, Donald, Who’s Who in Spy Fiction (New York: Taplinger Publishing Co, 1977), pbk.
  • Merry, Bruce, Anatomy of the Spy Thriller (Montreal: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 1977).
  • Panek, LeRoy L., The Special Branch. The British Spy Novel, 1890-1980 (Ohio: Bowling Green
  • University Popular Press, 1981), pbk.
  • Sauerburg, Lars Ole, Secret Agents in Fiction. Ian Fleming, John Le Carré and Len Deighton (New
  • York: St. Martin’s, 1984).
  • Stafford, David, ‘Spies and Gentlemen: The Birth of the British Spy Novel, 1893-1914’, Victorian
  • Studies, (Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press), Vol.24, No.4 (Summer, 1981), pp. 489-509.
  • Williams, Alan (ed), The Headline Book of Spy Fiction (London: Headline, 1992), pbk.
  • Intelligence & National Security. Special Issue on Spying in Film and Fiction. Vol.23, February
  • 2008, No.1

 

Len Deighton

  • Milward-Oliver, Edward, The Len Deighton Companion (London: Grafton, 1987), pbk.

 

Ian Fleming

  • Bryce, Ivar, You Only Live Once. Memories of Ian Fleming (London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1984).
  • Fleming, Fergus (ed), The Man With the Golden Typewriter. Ian Fleming’s James Bond Letters
  • (London: Bloomsbury, 2016), pbk.
  • Harling, Robert, Ian Fleming. A Personal Memoir (London: Robson Press, 2015).
  • Lycett, Andrew, Ian Fleming (London: Phoenix, 1995), pbk.
  • Macintyre, Ben, For Your Eyes Only. Ian Fleming & James Bond (London: Bloomsbury, 2009), pbk.
  • Pearson, John, The Life of Ian Fleming (London: Jonathan Cape, 1966).
  • ‘Tanner, Bill’, The Book of Bond (New York: Viking, 1965).
  • West, Nigel, Historical Dictionary of Ian Fleming’s World of Intelligence (Scarecrow Press/Rowman& Littlefield, 2009).

 

Frederick Forsyth

  • Forsyth, Frederick, The Outsider. My Life in Intrigue (London, Bantam Press, 2015), autobiography.

 

John Le Carré

  • Homberger, Eric, Contemporary Writers. John Le Carré (London; New York: Methuen, 1986), pbk.
  • Le Carré, John, The Pigeon Tunnel (Viking Penguin/Random House, 2016), autobiography
  • Lewis, Peter, John Le Carré (New York: Frederick Ungar Publishing Co., 1985), pbk.
  • Monaghan, David, The Novels of John Le Carré (Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1985).
  • Monaghan, David, Smiley’s Circus (London: Orbis, 1986).
  • Sisman, Adam, John Le Carré (London: Bloomsbury, 2015), biography.