Spy thrillers : from Buchan to Le Carré /

Spy thrillers : from Buchan to Le Carré /

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Bloom, Clive
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : St. Martin's Press, 1990.
Series:Insights (New York, N.Y.)
Subjects:
Buchan, John, > 1875-1940 > Criticism and interpretation.
Le Carré, John, > 1931-2020 > Criticism and interpretation.
Spy stories, English > History and criticism.
English fiction > 20th century > History and criticism.
Table of Contents:
  • The spy thriller : a genre under cover? / Clive Bloom
  • Cracked bells and really intelligent detonators : dislocation in Conrad's The secret agent / A. Robert Lee
  • The adventure of spying : Erskine Childer's The riddle of the sands / David Seed
  • The hunter and the hunted : the suspense novels of John Buchan / Dennis Butts
  • John Buchan : the reader's trap / Miles Donald
  • The story of an encounter : Geoffrey Household's Rogue male / Michael J. Hayes
  • Ian Fleming's enigmas and variations / Michael Woolf
  • The great game? : The spy fiction of Len Deighton / Dudley Jones
  • Are you telling me lies David? : The work of John le Carre / Michael J. Hayes
  • Reading John le Carre / Richard Bradbury
  • The well-wrought structures of John le Carre's early fiction / David Seed
  • Professionalism and popular fiction : the novels of Arthur Hailey and Frederick Forsyth / Dudley Jones
  • Spy fiction and the Vietnam War / John Simons.