| Description |
xiv, 429 pages ; 21 cm. |
| Series |
Vintage crime/Black Lizard |
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Vintage crime/Black Lizard.
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| Contents |
Introduction / Otto Penzler -- End of the string / Charles McCarry -- Section 7(a) (operational) / Lee Child -- Destiny city / James Grady -- Neighbors / Joseph Finder -- East of Suez, west of Charing Cross Road / John Lawton -- Father's Day / John Weisman -- Casey at the bat / Stephen Hunter -- Max is calling / Gayle Lynds -- Interrogator / David Morrell -- Sleeping with my assassin / Andrew Klavan -- The Hamburg redemption / Robert Wilson -- Courier / Dan Fesperman -- Hedged in / Stella Rimington -- You know what's going on / Olen Steinhauer. |
| Summary |
Astonishingly, as mystery maestro Penzler points out in his cogent introduction, there has never been, until now, a collection of original stories devoted to spy fiction. Penzler has assembled 14 of the biggest names in the thriller genre?such as Lee Child, Joseph Finder, Stephen Hunter, Gayle Lynds, and David Morrell?who all rise to the challenge of writing a short story set in the complex world of international espionage. This unique anthology's best entry, Charles McCarry's The End of the String, which depicts an intelligence officer's role in a planned coup aimed at a despotic African president-for-life, will evoke comparisons with John le Carré and Graham Greene. The superlative writing is matched by the variety, which ranges from tales with clever twists to straightforward ones, some contemporary, others with historical settings--Publisher's Weekly. |
| Subject |
Spy stories, American.
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Spy stories, English.
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| Added Author |
Penzler, Otto.
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| ISBN |
9780307477514 |
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0307477517 |
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