Genre of fiction involving espionage as an important context or plot device.
1 That's either a very bad joke or you have a very poor knowledge of tawdry spy fiction .
2 The greatest writers of spy fiction have, in almost every case, worked in intelligence before turning to writing.
3 In so evocatively capturing the art of spying, he is the writer who turned spy fiction into an art form.
4 We also return to the business of psychological manipulation that gave literary urgency to le Carré's new species of spy fiction .
5 But since 1989, their spooks have begun looking like villains too Spy fiction is narratively paranoid.
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