The generation of spy novelists that included le Carre were writing inside their own time about things that were almost happening.

It might be said that he is the spy novelist who came in from the cold war.

Like a spy novelist replaying an old formula, she puts the blame for the coup at the feet of the old capitalist enemies.

This is an urge that well-regarded spy novelists often seem to succumb to, not always to anyone's profit.

John Gardner, English spy novelist (d. 2007)

(I believe him, but it never hurts for spy novelists to leave a little doubt.)

Who are the master spy novelists?

Frederick Adam Diment (born 1943) is a spy novelist who published four novels between 1967 and 1971.

The story of friendship between two families connected to this small college town includes a war, a spy novelist, an aspiring student, terror, bravery and an international journey.

During the War, the propagandist John Buchan, became the pre-eminent British spy novelist.