Kiss kiss, bang bang : the boom in British thrillers from Casino royale to The eagle has landed : how Britain lost an empire but its secret agents saved the world
Ripley, Mike2017
Books, Manuscripts
In 'Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang', Mike Ripley examines the rise of the thriller from the austere 1950s through the boom time of the Swinging Sixties and early 1970s. Drawing upon conversations with many of the authors mentioned in the book, he shows how British writers, working very much in the shadow of World War II, came to dominate the field of adventure thrillers and the two types of spy story - spy fantasy (as epitomised by Ian Fleming's James Bond) and the more realistic spy fiction created by Deighton, Le Carré and Ted Allbeury, plus the many variations (and imitators) in between.
Main title:
Author:
Ripley, Mike, author
Imprint:
London : HarperCollinsPublishers, 2017.
Collation:
xx, 428 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 25 cm
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:
9780008172237 (hbk)
Dewey class:
823.0872090914823.RIPL823.0872823.08
LC class:
PR830.S87
Local class:
823.087
Language:
English
Subject:
BRN:
1891182
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