12-18-2010, 03:48 AM | #61 |
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I only read the first one, The Quiller Memorandum. Although it wasn't my kind of espionage novel, it did have one of the most enigmatic and mysterious opening set-pieces I've ever read. I remember being completely drawn in by the first couple of chapters.
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05-12-2011, 04:48 PM | #62 |
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09-12-2011, 09:29 AM | #63 | |
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The Matt Helm Books are great. Matt Helm is smart and tough. He is a government assassin than a spy. He is sent in to fix things that have gone wrong. If you like Donald Hamilton's Matt Helm Series you should also try his western novels. http://www.fantasticfiction.co.uk/h/donald-hamilton/ Apache |
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ditto...
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Thanks, Apache! Last week I bought a set of the four Matt Helm movies at Amazon. I saw one back when it was new, and I'm sure that I will enjoy them all. But I will take them for what they were, and read a book or two with a different frame of mind.
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I have also read all of the Le Carre and the entire Gabriel Allon series and loved them all. What should I read next? I need a about three or four books for the summer holidays.
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Personally I like to root through the bargin basement bins and see what great espionage and thriller novels I can come up with. In the time I have been doing this I have come up with some really great ones such as ENJ Carter's The Other President. About a US President who is caught in a terrorist attach on the White House and is presumed dead, however he is quite alive and is replaced with the Speaker of the House. The president is given extensive face reconstruction surgery and his jaw is rewired so he does not look and/or sound the same. While the speaker and his men seek out the president for killing the president fights his way back to his position in the White House.
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I've heard of a Follett/Graham Greene/Ambler/other novel in which the Chinese government out-negotiates its arch-capitalist adversaries in a large (natural resources?) transaction.
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I quite enjoyed some of Deighton earlier works Spy Story being my favourite
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Of free/PD stuff, I've really enjoyed E. Phillips Oppenheim's novels. He was one of the first authors to really write spy or intrigue novels, mostly revolving around WW1 (either the run up to it or during it).
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Olen Steinhauer's Milo Weaver novels are excellent as is Philip Kerr. I second the several recommendations for Jo Nesbo's Harry Hole books.
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