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Cover stories

By Michael Denning

Post-9/11 Espionage Fiction in the US and Pakistan

By Cara N. Cilano

Spy Fiction, Spy Films and Real Intelligence

By Wesley K. Wark

British Spy Fiction and the End of Empire

By Sam Goodman

The Bond Code

By Philip Gardiner

The Man Who Saved Britain

By Simon Winder

Cold War Counterfeit Spies

By Nigel West

Espionage and Exile

By Phyllis Lassner

Secret agents in fiction

By Lars Ole Sauerberg

The flying spy

By Nick Carr

For your eyes only

By Ben Macintyre

Who's who in spy fiction

By Donald McCormick

The lady investigates

By Patricia Craig

The silent game

By David Stafford

James Bond

By Henry Chancellor

Ian Fleming Miscellany

By Andrew Cook

James Bond

By Mike Paterson

Spies and Holy Wars

By Reeva Spector Simon

The spy story

By John G. Cawelti

The Cold War file

By Andy East

Modern Crime and Suspense Writers

By Harold Bloom

The Silent Game

By David Stafford

The Quest for Le Carré

By Alan Norman Bold

Plots and plotters

By Carmen Concilio