Putting this list together got me thinking about why readers love a good spy story. Is it the intrigue? The suspense? The action? I think it’s some or all of that. But mostly I think it’s because they give us a peek into the dark world of espionage and double agents and counterterrorism. There is […]
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10 Ways Cops Know You’re Lying
10 Ways Cops Know You’re Lying In fiction, the murderer is always an evil genius, a professional hit man, or a taunting serial killer. But in my experience as a police detective, most criminals are hapless goofs whose crimes are wholly unplanned, the result of impulse or passion. They are caught because they make dumb […]
Top Five Cold War Spy Novels
Harlot’s Ghost by Norman Mailer This wonderful book ends with the three most anticlimactic words in literature—to be continued—but those are the only ones that disappoint. It tells the story of Harry Hubbard, son of a spy, whose own career in the CIA charts the heady Cold War days when the agency seemed to hold […]