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
Ripley, Mike2019
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In 'Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang', Mike Ripley examines the rise of the thriller from the austere 1950s through the boom time of the Swinging Sixties and early 1970s. 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.
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Author:
Ripley, Mike, author
Imprint:
London : HarperCollinsPublishers, 2019.
Collation:
xx, 439 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 20 cm
Notes:
Originally published: 2017.Includes bibliographical references and index.
Awards:
HRF Keating Award for Best Non-Fiction Crime Book 2018
ISBN:
9780008172251 (pbk. :)
Dewey class:
823.087209823.087209 RIP
Language:
English
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BRN:
1863913