That's either a very bad joke or you have a very poor knowledge of tawdry spyfiction.
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The greatest writers of spyfiction have, in almost every case, worked in intelligence before turning to writing.
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In so evocatively capturing the art of spying, he is the writer who turned spyfiction into an art form.
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We also return to the business of psychological manipulation that gave literary urgency to le Carré's new species of spyfiction.
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But since 1989, their spooks have begun looking like villains too Spyfiction is narratively paranoid.
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First, there had been a spate of spy-yarns -the beginning of espionagefiction -as Germany became increasingly powerful and bellicose.
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Irish Fiction: Good espionagefiction is about much more than the clandestine conspiracies of secret intelligence agencies or the titillating adventures of tuxedoed globe-trotting sybarites.
Ús de spy novel en anglès
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In a spynovel, everything that the initiated character notices might mean something.
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That mission was already being written up like a spynovel.
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Which, in spynovel terms, would be the ultimate coup for a Special Service.
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It reads like a spynovel, but it's all true.
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What I've found is rather ordinary, far simpler than the plot of a spynovel.
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It was a spynovel. But Weinstein demurred.
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In every spynovel, spymasters invariably try to use money as the hook in the fish's gullet.
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They recognise it. Hearing it for the first time put me in mind of a spynovel.
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It might work in a spynovel, but I wasn't a CIA agent; I was a goddam English teacher.
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This case is seriously complex, it involves many moving parts and players, and reads like something out of a spynovel.
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This writer has not tired of boring you about his enthusiasm for John Le Carré's great spynovel and … It's here everybody.
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And old man Churchill, too, if you believe the Western spynovels.
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I'm speaking here of David Ignatius, Post columnist and author of spynovels.
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To what extent do your spynovels reflect real events?
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Anthropologists studying migration have taken over the term "sleeper" from popular spynovels.
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He had become a fantasist who funneled his talent into writing halfway decent spynovels.