In a spy novel, everything that the initiated character notices might mean something.

That mission was already being written up like a spy novel.

Which, in spy novel terms, would be the ultimate coup for a Special Service.

It reads like a spy novel, but it's all true.

What I've found is rather ordinary, far simpler than the plot of a spy novel.

It was a spy novel. But Weinstein demurred.

In every spy novel, spymasters invariably try to use money as the hook in the fish's gullet.

They recognise it. Hearing it for the first time put me in mind of a spy novel.

It might work in a spy novel, but I wasn't a CIA agent; I was a goddam English teacher.

This case is seriously complex, it involves many moving parts and players, and reads like something out of a spy novel.

This writer has not tired of boring you about his enthusiasm for John Le Carré's great spy novel and … It's here everybody.

And old man Churchill, too, if you believe the Western spy novels.

I'm speaking here of David Ignatius, Post columnist and author of spy novels.

To what extent do your spy novels reflect real events?

Anthropologists studying migration have taken over the term "sleeper" from popular spy novels.

He had become a fantasist who funneled his talent into writing halfway decent spy novels.