Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang: The Boom in British Thrillers from Casino Royale to The Eagle Has Landed
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| Rating | : | 4.79 (948 Votes) |
| Asin | : | B07231LY86 |
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| Number of Pages | : | 410 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-12-02 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
One FANTASTIC Read! Spy Guys And Gals This is an AWESOME read. I run a website devoted to spy series, many of them from the 60s and 70s, and I like to think I know a thing or three about thrillers from that time. I read, I thought, most of the great books coming out then. I was stunned at how much I was learning about the times, the authors, and the books - all told in a super entertaining way that kept me flying through the pages.The info presented is fascinating. The way the author presents it is almost beyond words. It is that entertaining. Fun historical observations to put things into . I loved this book! John Veale I loved this book. Fascinating history of the 'Golden Age' (mainly 1960's and 1970's) thriller and adventure novels. Spent a lot of time in secondhand bookshops in those years looking for these books and the back stories about the authors and the creation of the books was fascinating. Narration was terrific as well. Well done Mr Ripley.
Drawing upon conversations with many of the authors mentioned in the audiobook, 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.. An entertaining history of British thrillers from Casino Royale to The Eagle Has Landed, in which award-winning crime writer Mike Ripley reveals that, though Britain may have lost an empire, her thrillers helped save the world. In three short years, his James Bond novels were already spearheading a boom in thriller fiction that would dominate the best-seller lists not just in Britain but internationally. When Ian Fleming dismissed his books in a 1956 letter to Raymond Chandler as 'straight pillow fantasies