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Spy Thrillers

From Buchan to le Carré

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  • © 1990

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Editors:
  1. Clive Bloom

    1. Middlesex Polytechnic, UK

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Table of contents (13 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xi
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  2. Introduction: The Spy Thriller: A Genre Under Cover?

    • Clive Bloom
    Pages 1-11

  3. Cracked Bells and Really Intelligent Detonators: Dislocation in Conrad’s The Secret Agent

    • A. Robert Lee
    Pages 12-27

  4. The Adventure of Spying: Erskine Childers’s The Riddle of the Sands

    • David Seed
    Pages 28-43

  5. The Hunter and the Hunted: The Suspense Novels of John Buchan

    • Dennis Butts
    Pages 44-58

  6. John Buchan: The Reader’s Trap

    • Miles Donald
    Pages 59-72

  7. The Story of an Encounter: Geoffrey Household’s Rogue Male

    • Michael J. Hayes
    Pages 73-85

  8. Ian Fleming’s Enigmas and Variations

    • Michael Woolf
    Pages 86-99

  9. The Great Game? The Spy Fiction of Len Deighton

    • Dudley Jones
    Pages 100-112

  10. Are You Telling Me Lies David? The Work of John le Carré

    • Michael J. Hayes
    Pages 113-129

  11. Reading John le Carré

    • Richard Bradbury
    Pages 130-139

  12. The Well-Wrought Structures of John le Carré’s Early Fiction

    • David Seed
    Pages 140-159

  13. Professionalism and Popular Fiction: The Novels of Arthur Hailey and Frederick Forsyth

    • Dudley Jones
    Pages 160-184

  14. Spy Fiction and the Vietnam War

    • John Simons
    Pages 185-199

  15. Back Matter

    Pages 200-202
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About this book

This 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.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Middlesex Polytechnic, UK

    Clive Bloom

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Spy Thrillers

  • Book Subtitle: From Buchan to le Carré

  • Editors: Clive Bloom

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-21132-6

  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London

  • eBook Packages: Palgrave Literature & Performing Arts Collection, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)

  • Copyright Information: The Lumière (Co-operative) Press Ltd 1990

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-0-333-52245-5Published: 19 November 1990

  • eBook ISBN: 978-1-349-21132-6Published: 12 June 1991

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XI, 202

  • Topics: Fiction

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