Thanks to the anon who recommended these, I've read 2 and they were very fun. Fast reads too. Makes me want to jump around to le Carre and also Bond novels.
>>25636678Read the "Red Sparrow" trilogy. Also written by a former CIA agent.
>>25636678Has anyone read this woman? She's on my reading list (not near the top, admittedly).Her husband was an MI5 officer or something and lots of people speak highly of her. From the covers it looks possible she'll be overly concerned with romantic relationships. But maybe she's worth a look?
>>25636937Just checked and her husband was MI6 (foreign intelligence) and also a classics professor. Interesting. Back in the good old days when academics weren't all communists, I suppose.
>>25636678Cool rec. Thanks. Red Sparrow looks cool as well. I've been on a Clancy binge recently, and although its fun, I do think I need a break from him, and Vince Flynn.
>>25636678You guys know any good spy fiction set before WW2? I've read Conrad's The Secret Agent and Chesterton's The Man Who Was Thursday already.
>>25638004How is Conrad's Secret Agent?
>>25636678le Carre is a bureaucratic pastiche about systems, administrative and institutional failure. It is like reading about the NHS in the 1980s. Do you like cuckoldry, the impossibility of ideology, and the absence of certain information? You will love le Carre. It is basically Stoner, if Stoner didn't conduct lectures.
>>25636941>her husband was MI6 (foreign intelligence) and also a classics professor. Interesting. Back in the good old days when academics weren't all communists,Dude. You've just said he was a communist.
>>25638010I liked it. It's less plot heavy and more focused on characters psychology than I thought it would be, but I didn't mind. I need to read Under Western Eyes, I've heard it's good too.
>>25638016Hahaha OK I see what you mean but I don't think all of them were, just the ones you hear about.
