The Silent Game: The Real World of Imaginary Spies

Author/Contributor(s):	Stafford, David
Publisher:	University of Georgia Press
Date:	02/28/2012
Binding:	Paperback
Condition:	NEW

Traces the history of spy writers and their fiction from creator William Le Queux, of the Edwardian age, to John le Carré, of the Cold War era. Stafford reveals the connections between fact and fiction as seen in the lives of writers with experience in intelligence, including John Buchan, Somerset Maugham, Ian Fleming, and Graham Greene.