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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. Holds:  0   Copy/Holding information Location Collection Call No. Item type Status   Bedford Public Library Adult Nonfiction 823.914 R591k Adult books Checked in Add Copy to MyList Central Library Adult Nonfiction 823.914 R591k Adult books Checked in Add Copy to MyList

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