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Ripley, Mike.
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Spy stories, English -- History and criticism.
Spy stories -- History and criticism
Suspense fiction, English -- History and criticism.
Suspense fiction -- History and criticism.
English fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
Espionage in literature.
Spies in literature.
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Ripley, Mike.
Spy stories, English -- History and criticism.
Spy stories -- History and criticism
Suspense fiction, English -- History and criticism.
Suspense fiction -- History and criticism.
English fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
Espionage in literature.
Spies in literature.
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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
/ Mike Ripley ; foreword by Lee Child.
by
Ripley, Mike.
HarperCollinsPublishers, 2017.
Call #:
823.914 R591k
Subjects
Spy stories, English -- History and criticism.
Spy stories -- History and criticism
Suspense fiction, English -- History and criticism.
Suspense fiction -- History and criticism.
English fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
Espionage in literature.
Spies in literature.
ISBN:
9780008172237 (hc.)
Description:
xx, 428 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Notes:
"Collins crime club : the sign of a good detective novel."
Bibliography:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 414-416) and index.
Summary:
"An entertaining history of
British
thrillers
from
Casino
Royale
to The
Eagle
Has
Landed
, in which crime writer Mike Ripley reveals that, though
Britain
may have
lost
an
empire
, her
thrillers
helped save the
world
. With a foreword by Lee Child. When Ian Fleming dismissed his books in a 1956 letter to Raymond Chandler as 'straight pillow fantasies of the bang-bang, kiss-kiss variety' he was being typically immodest. In three short years, his James Bond novels were already spearheading a
boom
in thriller fiction that would dominate the bestseller lists, not just in
Britain
, but internationally. The decade following
World
War II had seen
Britain
lose an
Empire
, demoted in terms of global power and status and economically crippled by debt; yet
its
fictional spies,
secret
agents
, soldiers, sailors and even (occasionally) journalists were now saving the
world
on a regular basis. From Ian Fleming and Alistair MacLean in the 1950s through Desmond Bagley, Dick Francis, Len Deighton and John Le Carré in the 1960s, to Frederick Forsyth and Jack Higgins in the 1970s. Many have been labelled 'boys' books' written by men who probably never grew up but, as critic Mike Ripley recounts, the
thrillers
of this period provided the reader with thrills, adventure and escapism, usually in exotic settings, or as today's leading thriller writer Lee Child puts it in his Foreword: 'the thrill of immersion in a fast and gaudy
world
.' Ripley examines the rise of the thriller from the austere 1950s through the
boom
time of the Swinging Sixties and early 1970s, examining some 150
British
authors (plus a few notable South Africans). 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"--Provided by publisher.
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