ALTERNATE ROUTES (Baen Books, 2008)
By Tim Powers. I’ve been a big fan of Tim Powers’ urban and historical fantasy books since I read The Anubis Gates back in 1984. Powers was part of a California group of writers that…
By Tim Powers. I’ve been a big fan of Tim Powers’ urban and historical fantasy books since I read The Anubis Gates back in 1984. Powers was part of a California group of writers that…
I first encountered the author of this book, Chris Knowles, in a podcast interview. He’s had a rich and interesting career as a blogger, writer, and comic book historian. The novel was described as a conspiracy thriller. Intrigued, I…
The Sympathizer, by Viet Nguyen, is a new breed of noir novel, which academia is turning out these days. The author is a distinguished man of letters at in California, so I would expect nothing less from him. And he doesn’t disappoint. This is the story of the Vietnam conflict told through the eyes of an undercover spy, a mole, a deep operative, a man without a name who is a metaphor for so much. Except that he can’t seem to remember who he is.
Victor in the Rubble by Alex Finley (2016, Smiling Hippo Press) Victor In The Rubble is the first novel by veteran government intelligence worker Alex Finley. I heard her interviewed about the book on the Spycast…
The day after Christmas I took a trip down to Washington D.C. with Mrs. Z7 to have a look at the International Spy Museum. It was only a three-hour tour down from the secret lair…
Shadow of the Condor by James Grady (Dell, 1975) Shadow of the Condor is the 1975 sequel to James Grady’s Six Days of the Condor. It’s not an easy book to find and my worn…
Six Days of The Condor is one of those books everyone can reference even if few have read it.
Operation Jealousy is one of many Alex Glenne spy novels written by French writer M G Braun (Maurice Gabriel Brault) who passed in 1984.
Decoded by Mai Jai, translated by Olivia Milburn and Christopher Payne (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2014) Decoded by Mai Jia is the first English publication of one of China’s famous writers. First published in 2002,…
Masterstroke by John Tiger (Popular Library, 1966) Masterstroke is the second I Spy novel written by Walter Wager under the pseudonym “John Tiger”. Wagner had a rich career writing mystery and action novels until…