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Spy fiction

Sean Connery as James Bond

Could the Sean Connery-era James Bond still swing it today?

Global Politics

Best-selling spy novelist Alex Berenson says the CIA’s division of brains and brawn has made the do-it-all spy we recognize from Sean Connery’s James Bond a thing of the past.

American diplomat expelled from Russia for spying evokes memories of Cold War

Global Politics

Stella Rimington: The real woman behind James Bond’s M

Arts, Culture & Media

French Spy Novelist Gérard de Villiers’ and his Factual Fiction

Arts, Culture & Media
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The Many Personas of Stella Rimington

Global Politics
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Sweden’s Spy Agency Throws James Bond-Themed Party

Global Politics

News emerged this week that SAPO spent $800,000 on a Bond-themed party last year that was complete with casino tables, a big band and a gala dinner.

Best-Selling Writer William Boyd Accepts Bond Mission

Arts, Culture & Media

Ian Fleming, died in 1964. But his creation, super spy James Bond, lives on. British writer William Boyd will write the next one. The World’s Carol Zall has the story.

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Alan Furst

Global Politics

Spies are in the news again, but they’ve been in Alan Furst’s fiction for over 20 years. His new novel, Spies of the Balkans, is his 11th work of World War II-era espionage fiction. The book has been getting great reviews, but Furst tells Kurt he has no idea what he did right ? he […]

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Our man in Dubai: a spy novelist on a real life assassination

Arts, Culture & Media

The assassination of Hamas official Mahmoud al-Mabhouh last month in a Dubai hotel room has been compared to the plot of a cheap spy novel. Bad costumes, security footage, and Interpol all make for a good thread.

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