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Tag Archives: John le Carré
More thoughts on 21st-century spy shows: Cold War edition
When I wrote about the TV series Slow Horses, last month, I mentioned how one of the departures from the source novels was that the show didn’t take advantage of the potential of sleeper agents to act as metaphors for … Continue reading
Posted in SPYCRAFT & WARFARE
Tagged A Spy Among Friends, Agent Carter, Alfred Pennyworth, Cold War, Deutschland 83, espionage, Glória, John le Carré, Kathryn Immonen, movies, Pennyworth, politics, Rich Ellis, Spy/Master, The Americans, The Game, The Sleepers, The Sympathizer, Vietnam
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Gotham Calling’s 120 Cold War movies – part 8
Like the previous installment of Gotham Calling’s mega-list of Cold War films, this week’s selection has a relatively ‘adult’ sensibility (in a non-sleazy sense), with a handful of heavy dramas about weary men and women. That said, we are now … Continue reading
Posted in COLD WAR CINEMA
Tagged Cold War, espionage, Garth Ennis, John le Carré, movies, politics, science fiction
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A couple of 21st-century spy novels
Another post based on my summer reads… Besides science fiction, as always I also spent part of my break reading spy yarns. The last time I wrote about this type of books in the blog I focused on a couple … Continue reading
Posted in SPYCRAFT & WARFARE
Tagged Cold War, espionage, John le Carré, Mick Herron, Nick Harkaway, politics, Slough House, Slow Horses
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John le Carré (1931-2020)
Although his work had little to do with Batman comics, John le Carré was a foundational writer for some of the other stuff I cover in this blog. Between the Circus series and his other novels, he became one of … Continue reading
Posted in SPYCRAFT & WARFARE
Tagged books without pictures, espionage, John le Carré
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On John le Carré’s non-Circus novels
Earlier this year, I discussed John le Carré’s Circus novels as the perfect counterpoint to the James Bond branch of spy fiction. Yet there is much more to le Carré’s writing, which has taken this genre into all sorts of … Continue reading
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Tagged books without pictures, Cold War, espionage, John le Carré, Mark Askwith, Matt Taylor, politics, R.G. Taylor
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On John le Carré’s Circus novels
I won’t drift too far away and too often, but this year I want to widen the blog’s scope every once in a while. With that in mind, let’s shift gears for a bit and talk about John le Carré’s … Continue reading
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Tagged books without pictures, Cold War, espionage, John le Carré, noir, politics
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A couple of excellent spy novels
Shifting gears for a bit, today let’s talk about a couple of cool books without drawings that came out almost a decade ago… OUR KIND OF TRAITOR (John le Carré, 2010) “At seven o’clock of a Caribbean morning, on the … Continue reading
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Tagged books without pictures, espionage, Greg Rucka, John le Carré, politics, Queen & Country
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