The Sandbaggers was a highly regarded television series about the eponymous British Intelligence unit, also known as the“fire brigade of the SIS”, that ran on British...
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Clive Egleton is often overlooked as a thriller author, but during his long career (1970 to 2005) he was one of Britain’s most reliable practitioners of action...
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My latest column from the Canberra Weekly. A mixture of non-fiction books and a good Israeli spy novel! A Long Night In Paris is very reminiscent of Mick...
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This tough 1970s thriller has largely slipped from view now, but is well worth hunting down. Ian Kennedy Martin is a noted British script writer who worked on a number...
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The Bang Bang Birds was the third in the series of spy novels written by Adam Diment about the hip, British ‘pro-hash, anti-spy’ Philip McAlpine. Written in reaction to...
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This eye-catching cover would not be deemed suitable these days, with the suggestion of drug taking, although the capsule is probably cyanide rather than ecstasy. ...
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