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I'd forgotten Anthony Price; good stuff but a bit conversational. There's also Clive Egleton, another UK practioner of the spy genre; and Francis Clifford, whose "The Naked Runner" is particularly good. James Leasor, too now that I think of him, the Dr Jason Love series. One non-Jason Love story was called "Tank of Serpents" and set in mostly in Nepal. On a slightly dottier level, Fred Pohl's The Cool War is both s.f. and secret agent; and Colin Watson's "Hopjoy was Here" is a whodunit, with the plot confused by a very devious secret agent who may or may not be dead, (or even real) and who is being investigated by a pair of spoofed James Bonds.
As I say, all sorts of writers have popped up with spy stories, some of them very unexpected indeed.
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