by vjbooks | Jul 29, 2014 | Collecting, We're Talking Books!
Spy vs. Spy When the cold war ended and the last spy came in from the cold, it was predicted that the espionage novel would fade with the “duck and cover” films. No longer were we under the constant threat of annihilation – we were finally free from the fear of...
by vjbooks | Jul 25, 2014 | Collecting, We're Talking Books!
Introducing Diplomat and Author Matthew Palmer Matthew Palmer is a career diplomat. It is the popular opinion that diplomacy is closely linked to espionage or gathering of intelligence. Embassies are bases for both diplomats and spies, and some diplomats are...
by vjbooks | May 6, 2009 | We're Talking Books!
Bestseller Ignatius (Body of Lies) explores America’s escalating cold war with Iran in a thriller sure to draw comparisons to le Carré’s The Spy Who Came In from the Cold. When Harry Pappas, the new CIA chief of the Iran Operations Division, receives an unsolicited...
by vjbooks | Feb 21, 2009 | We're Talking Books!
(Publisher’s Weekly, Feb. 16) At the start of bestseller Stone’s formulaic third thriller to feature CIA “cleaner” Micah Dalton (after The Orpheus Deception), Dalton takes revenge late one night outside Venice’s Piazza San Marco on one of the Serbian thugs...
by vjbooks | Feb 17, 2009 | We're Talking Books!
Having foiled an al-Qaeda plot targeting Time Square in 2006’s The Faithful Spy (which won an Edgar for best first novel), maverick CIA agent John Wells returns in this sequel, which PW called “pulse-pounding. . . [although] the characters and the perils...
