The lonely ruminative spy. Such a cliche, he thinks as he checks into a hotel the Wing has booked him into. He doesn’t need a ...

Brian Freemantle, who has died aged 88, was a globetrotting journalist turned prolific thriller writer, best-known as the ...

He began to publish espionage fiction in the early 1970s ... described his early novels as “virtual case histories of the East-West war of dirty tricks”. Freemantle observed that much of ...

But the focus of Buckton’s eye is not so much on the Bard – as it is on Bond, James Bond – and other British exemplars of espionage novels ... CIA Director Bill Burns as he talks about The Middle East ...

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It’s a story of extravagant lies, homemade bombs and adrenaline-pumped commandos. Joshua Levine charts the formative years of ...

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A group of sociologists found that few Russians were steadfast supporters of the war. Most had something more complicated to ...

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