I have just started working through the Fleming Bond books and I have some of the Gardner ones as well. Any other author you like in the spy genre? Forsyth? Ludlum? Le Carre? Follett?
Just looking for other suggestions to read.... Thanks!
Any other author you all like reading (spy genre)
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, Jan 15 2003 01:19 PM
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Posted 15 January 2003 - 01:25 PM
Len Deighton, Raymond Chandler, Le Carre
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Posted 15 January 2003 - 02:26 PM
Always good to check out the "fellow" operatives in the "community";)
Clancy - love the details (granted, not everyone enjoys reading 10+ pages describing how a missle sub's sonar works, but I love tech facts) and Dr. Jack Ryan is a great character.
As to others, Le Carre', Deighton (the game, set & match books are great), Ludlum and of course Charteris' Saint is the only rival to Bond although the do preceed Fleming (pity about Paramount's efforts given how much they paid for the rights). Also, Buckley's Blackford Oakes novels were always a good read although a bit too high-brow at times.
Moving away from spies to detectives, my Dad introduced me to Mike Hammer (the original post-war hard-boiled PI w/ a .45 auto named Betsy)Great Hammer quote: "It was time to pay the piper, and the only currency Betsy & I carried was .45 caliber." - Murder Me, Murder You.
The Robert Parker "Spenser" books are great too.
Old Ian certainly wasn't alone;)
Clancy - love the details (granted, not everyone enjoys reading 10+ pages describing how a missle sub's sonar works, but I love tech facts) and Dr. Jack Ryan is a great character.
As to others, Le Carre', Deighton (the game, set & match books are great), Ludlum and of course Charteris' Saint is the only rival to Bond although the do preceed Fleming (pity about Paramount's efforts given how much they paid for the rights). Also, Buckley's Blackford Oakes novels were always a good read although a bit too high-brow at times.
Moving away from spies to detectives, my Dad introduced me to Mike Hammer (the original post-war hard-boiled PI w/ a .45 auto named Betsy)Great Hammer quote: "It was time to pay the piper, and the only currency Betsy & I carried was .45 caliber." - Murder Me, Murder You.
The Robert Parker "Spenser" books are great too.
Old Ian certainly wasn't alone;)
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Posted 15 January 2003 - 06:41 PM
Try Clive Cussler - a brilliant adventure novelist.
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Posted 18 January 2003 - 09:36 PM
Raymond Chandler was a father figure to Fleming and one of my favourite writers.
Len Deighton's 'sixties books like Funeral In Berlin. I went off him when he seemed to be concentrating on trilogies.
Len Deighton's 'sixties books like Funeral In Berlin. I went off him when he seemed to be concentrating on trilogies.