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Did you know there's a movie in the works with Gary Oldman as George Smiley? http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1340800/ And, just to update, Our Kind of Traitor was pretty good. Not up there with le Carré's best, but good just the same. Great narrative and dialog, though. That may be the part that's up there with his better works. |
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Does anyone have an opinion of Donald Hamilton's Matt Helm series?
I've never read one, but I remember the Dean Martin movies from the 60s. I've no idea how true to the books the movies were. |
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I loved George Smiley
LoveReading, I adored Alec Guiness as Smiley. I just watched Tinker, Tailor... again the other night and I have read it many times.
Recently read Redbreast by Nesbo and loved it and anything by Olen Steinhauer is awesome if the cold war interests you. Last edited by Big Shirley; 10-15-2010 at 05:17 AM. Reason: Bad grammar & spelling, apologies |
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I heard from a buddy of mine with connections to Hollywood that there's going to be another Jason Bourne movie. Only let down is that Matt Damon may not be in it because the studio won't pay him the $25M he's asking for.
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A good Espionage author is a an important asset if one loves the genre. Of all the great authors of the recent past, I like to place Len Deighton just one little step ahead of the great John Le Carré , especially with the first part of his production, where Harry Palmer shines in his dullness. Last edited by beppe; 10-23-2010 at 08:46 AM. |
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Thanks for that Harry Palmer link, beppe. I had no idea that Michael Caine made two more Palmer movies in the 90s.
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In the espionage category I would definitely include David Baldacci as one of the best! Others to include would be Vince Flynn, Daniel Silva, and Stephen Hunter.
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I'll throw in another vote for Alan Furst. I was recently introduced to his work by a coworker and I've read three of his novels in the last week or so (The World at Night, Red Gold and Spies of the Balkans). Be it Occupation Paris or Greece on the verge of the German invasion Furst's evocation of a particular time and place is at least as compelling as his characters.
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Christopher Reich is ok and I like Jack Higgins as well and don't forget Daniel DeSilva
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I'm going to recommend David Downing, though with reluctance. I'm sucker for anything set in the 1930s/40s and his series has an Anglo-American longtime expat in Berlin, a journalist who gets mixed up in espionage and mystery mostly to hold out hope of protecting his son and girlfriend in a doomed Germany. The details are good and the characters drawn well enough, but Downing frustrates me by often introducing too many subplots that have equal stakes. I'm about halfway through Stettin Station and it's the same with this one, but I'm entertained and I'm sure I'll read the next one.
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I don't think that I've mentioned that I read The Ninth Directive by Adam Hall last month, and enjoyed it a great deal.
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