Spy fiction
The spy fiction genre (sometimes called political thriller) arose before the World War I, at about the same time that the first modern intelligence agencies were being formed. Since its inception, the spy genre has usually enjoyed great popular success, although in the years following the end of the Cold War (the Berlin Wall fell in November 1989) readership waned. The 9/11 terrorist attacks on the United States reversed that trend, reigniting readers' interest in the world at large. Seldom has this literary genre met with much critical acclaim, although there have been remarkably literate and politically insightful books published in it.
Prominent writers of spy fiction
- Eric Ambler
- Raymond Benson
- John Buchan
- John le Carré
- Robert Erskine Childers
- Tom Clancy
- Manning Coles
- Desmond Cory
- Len Deighton
- Paul Eddy
- Ian Fleming
- Ken Follett
- Frederick Forsyth
- John Gardner
- Michael Gilbert
- Graham Greene
- Jan Guillou
- Donald Hamilton
- Robert Harris
- Raelynn Hillhouse
- Anthony Horowitz
- Robert Ludlum
- Gayle Lynds
- Helen MacInnes
- Norman Mailer
- Somerset Maugham
- Charles McCarry
- David Morrell
- James Munro
- Manning O'Brine
- E. Phillips Oppenheim
- Baroness Orczy
- William le Queux
- Desmond Skirrow
- Ross Thomas
- Andy McNab
- Dennis Wheatley
- James Hadley Chase
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