post coldwar... for me, it is always the coldwar spy stuff but i'll look into it
Posted on 08/24/2010 7:47:47 PM PDT by Perdogg
I liked the Night Manager.
I liked Len Deighton’s “SS GB”, based on the Germans winning
WW II...spooky. I also liked Ian Fleming...have a feeling he had a James Bond kinda’ life. Buzz is he was in intelligence during WW II. I seem to recall he “got in the family way” some aristocar’s wife, she divorced and Married Ian Fleming, I think she was in her 40’s, and their child was called Caspar. He wrote at his house (in the Bahamss I think), and the place was called Golden Eye, and was opened to tourists. Maybe still is. His child, Caspar, was a suicide not too many years ago.
But Kingsley Amis’ books are running upwards of $175...
post coldwar... for me, it is always the coldwar spy stuff but i'll look into it
Best post-Cold War has to be Daniel Silva’s books; the hero is an on-again-off-again Mossad operative.
suggestions???
Excellent books and the dogs of war was not a bad movie..
Odessa file a good movie as well..
Cannot compare them to Bond movies.
The Secred Servant would be a good start. The main character of this (and all Silva novels) was recruited to the Mossad from art school, in between assignments he’s a world-renowned art restorer. Everytime he leaves the Mossad, they lure him back usually involving the art world. One mission was to gain confidence of a billionaire oil sheik whose hobbies were collecting Renaissance Art and funding terrorism.
Cheers!
“The Dogs of War” was so accurate in detail that Forsythe was actually accused of planning a coup d’etat in Equatorial Guinea and writing the book as a manual for how to do it.
Have you actually read the Bond novels? He slept with only 10 women in 12 novels, only one we presume in a Short story (Solange in “007 in new York”).
The Left called Mickey Spillane’s Mike Hammer also a fascist.
I guess some people got irked that “Mike” kicked the crap out of commie spies working for the Soviet Union to dominate the world.
yeah that was back in the days a few men a a few guns could take over a African country..
I put it in my netflix que again if you have not seen it check out The Wild Geese another excellent coup movie...
Mike Hammer kicked the crap out of everyone, not just commie spies. His sole interrogation technique was beating.
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