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unusual facts about spy fiction


Special Execution Agency

Found only in the PlayStation 2 game, Spy Fiction, the S.E.A. acts like any other intelligence agency: gathering information, conducting covert operations, enlisting special agents, etc.


Range Murata

He still continues to do some work in this area today, having recently done the character designs for the PlayStation 2 game Spy Fiction.

Son Altesse Sérénissime

Son Altesse Sérénissime (His Serene Highness) is a series of espionage novels created by French author Gérard de Villiers, featuring prince Malko Linge as the lead character.

The Human Factor

The Human Factor (ISBN 0-679-40992-0) is an espionage novel by Graham Greene, first published in 1978 and adapted into a 1979 film, directed by Otto Preminger using a screenplay by Tom Stoppard.

The Prometheus Deception

The Prometheus Deception is a spy fiction thriller novel written in 2000 by Robert Ludlum about an agent in an ultraclandestine agency known only as the Directorate named Nick Bryson, alias Jonas Barett, alias Jonathan Coleridge, alias The Technician, who is thrown into a fight between an organization he knows as Prometheus and his former employers at the Directorate.

They Came to Baghdad

The book was inspired by Christie's own trips to Baghdad with her second husband, archaeologist Sir Max Mallowan, and is also one of few Christie novels belonging to the action and spy fiction genres, rather than to mysteries and whodunnits.


see also

Agent 13

Agent 13: The Midnight Avenger, The main character of an eponymous spy fiction series published by TSR from 1986-1988

Literary fiction

In an interview by Lev Grossman for Time magazine, John Updike lamented that "the category of 'literary fiction' has sprung up recently to torment people like me who just set out to write books, and if anybody wanted to read them, terrific, the more the merrier. But now, no, I'm a genre writer of a sort. I write literary fiction, which is like spy fiction or chick lit".

McCarry

Charles McCarry (born 1930 Massachusetts, USA) is an American writer primarily of spy fiction.

Tremor of Intent: An Eschatological Spy Novel

Burgess conceived it as a reaction to both the heavy-handed, humorless spy fiction of John le Carré and to Ian Fleming's James Bond, a character Burgess thought an imperialist relic.