He wrote his espionage fiction mainly during the Cold War ... of course, mostly Middle Eastern terrorists. Take “Homeland,” with a bipolar CIA officer who thinks a freed prisoner of war ...

is an espionage thriller set in the heart of ... insight into the places and experiences that inspired her Middle Eastern fiction. Agatha Christie's Middle Eastern novels combine the intrigue ...

The spy I am referring to was Driver T Schurch of the Royal Army Service Corps, who served in the same unit as myself in the Middle East. My connection with Schurch started prior to the war in ...