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Beyond Bond: the timeless appeal of the spy novel spectator.co.uk - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from spectator.co.uk Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Embed iframe src https://www.npr.org/player/embed/972491904/972550058 width 100% height 290 frameborder 0 scrolling no title NPR embedded audio player DAVE DAVIES, HOST: This is FRESH AIR. The new novel Slough House by Mick Herron is the seventh installment in his series about a team of bungling British spies who ve been put out to pasture but keep getting involved in huge cases anyway. Our critic at large John Powers says the book confirms Herron s stature as the best spy novelist now working. JOHN POWERS, BYLINE: There are scads of talented spy novelists, but the ones who matter capture something essential about their historical moment. Back in the 1930s and 40s, Eric Ambler nailed the sense of ordinary people being caught up in the machinations of great totalitarian powers. A few decades later, John le Carre caught the personal and moral ambiguities of what John F. Kennedy dubbed the long twilight struggle of the Cold War. ....
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