Novel: The Moscow Sleepers by Stella Rimington
With The Moscow Sleepers (2018), Stella Rimington extends her Liz Carlyle series to its tenth …
Novel: Breaking Cover by Stella Rimington
Stella Rimington’s Liz Carlyle series is like an unexceptional but comfortable and friendly pub. The …
Novel: Close Call by Stella Rimington
Stella Rimington’s latest Liz Carlyle thriller is Close Call (2014), another no-nonsense, authentic procedural that …
Novel: The Geneva Trap by Stella Rimington
The latest installment of Stella Rimington’s Liz Carlyle series, The Geneva Trap (2012), is another …
Novel: Rip Tide by Stella Rimington
“Season six” of Stella Rimington’s Liz Carlyle series, Rip Tide (2011), is one of its …
Novel: Present Danger by Stella Rimington
With my to-read shelf threatening to collapse, I decided to lighten its load a bit …
Non-Fiction Roundup
By and large, my reading is so fiction-centric that I sometimes forget about non-fiction. Or …
Anthology: Agents of Treachery, Edited by Otto Penzler
When I think spy fiction, I think novels. Evidently, so do most writers of spy …
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Novel: Dead Line by Stella Rimington
Some of my pleasure-reading can be hard work, a necessary side effect of my fondness …
Novel: Illegal Action by Stella Rimington
After a few science fiction books, I felt the need to turn back to spy …
Novel: The Hidden Man by Charles Cumming
Lately, reading spy novels makes me want to write my own, so in order to …
Novel: Secret Asset by Stella Rimington
I found the first novel by Stella Rimington (At Risk, reviewed here) promising, and I’m …
Novel: At Risk by Stella Rimington
My ever-continuing search for effective spy novelists takes us next to the unimaginatively titled At …