19 rows Best Cold War Spy Books Best novels about spies operating during the Soviet era. The cold war as comedy.

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During the 1950s most of American spy stories were not about the CIA instead being about agents from the Federal.

Cold war spy novels. A Cold War Spy Novel Historical Fiction. In 1949 he joined the recently created CIA and continued to write spy fiction for many years. The William Catesby novels by Edward Wilson The Envoy William Catesby 1 The CIA the KGB British intelligence and the H-bomb The Whitehall Mandarin William Catesby 4 In the early days of the Cold War nuclear espionage in search.

The Spy Who Came In from the Cold is a 1965 British Cold War spy film based on the 1963 novel of the same name by John le CarréThe film stars Richard Burton Claire Bloom and Oskar WernerIt was directed by Martin Ritt and the screenplay was written by Paul Dehn and Guy Trosper. Atomsk novel Avakoum Zahov versus 07. Paul Linebarger a China specialist for the CIA published Atomsk the first novel of the Cold War in 1949.

The Cardinal of the Kremlin. Robert Littell has long been known for his novels of Cold War espionage including the acclaimed novel The Company but Comrade Koba promises to be something darker and more thoughtfulwhat Littells other works have left concealed in the shadows now emerges in. Both writers are of that old school British era very descriptive slow burner plot lines with good realism.

As such it has to be a landmark in Cold War Noir. During the war E. The film depicts British agent Alec Leamas mission as a faux defector to East Germany who is given the task of.

Only modern era spy. The Charm School novel The Clocks. The Bernard Samson series Game Set Match Hook Line Sinker Faith Hope Charity is his cold war equivalent to Smiley.

Wormald a vacuum cleaner salesman and inadvertent spy sends British intelligence into a spin with his scale drawings of the parts of the Atomic Pile Cleaner. The author of A Spy Among Friends and Agent Zigzag among others does it again this time delivering a Cold War espionage story for the ages another cant miss account of intrigue and intelligence Boston Globe The subtitle of Macintyres latest real-life spy thriller calls it The Greatest Espionage Story of the Cold War. CategoryCold War spy novels.

It was another eleven years until the Smiley trilogy but this was the book that began to change the way we all viewed and understood not only the spy novel but the Cold War itself. God Save the Spy. Devil May Care Faulks novel The Devil.

John le Carré Call for the Dead 1961 You may very well think it perverse of me not to pick The Spy Who Came in from the Cold but this is the book that introduces Smiley. 19 rows 49 books based on 37 votes. It was filmed a couple of years later with James Mason as Smiley renamed Dobbs.

Use features like bookmarks note taking and highlighting while reading God Save the Spy. This was le Carrés third novel and the first by anyone to really distill the icy logic of the Cold War to capture its chilling limiting effect on the human beings caught in its machinery. A Cold War Spy Novel Historical Fiction - Kindle edition by Ellsworth John.

All Votes Add. The Spy Who Came In from the Cold by John le Carré Tinker. Howard Hunt wrote his first spy novel East of Farewell 1943.

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