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Gabriel's Moon by William Boyd

By Vicki Weisfeld

5 December, 2024

In Gabriel’s Moon, the new espionage thriller by William Boyd, a brief prologue tells how eight-year-old Gabriel Dax experienced the house fire that took his widowed mother’s life and destroyed his childhood home. The firefighters’ verdict that the cause was Gabriel’s moon-shaped and candle-powered nightlight….

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Mick Herron's Slow Horses reaches season four on Apple TV+

By DeathBecomesHer

3 September, 2024

With a loud trump and a pithy put-down, Jackson Lamb and his motley bunch of MI5 failures return to Apple TV+ from 4 Sept 2024, for the fourth season of Slow Horses, based on the award-winning novels of Mick Herron. The latest outing takes its…

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The Trap by Ava Glass

By Paul Burke

26 July, 2024

It’s great to see female protagonists front and centre in modern spy thrillers and British agent Emma Makepeace is a case in point. First appearing in The Chase in 2022, she literally hit the ground running while dodging bullets as she fought to keep herself…

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Kalmann and the Sleeping Mountain by Joachim B Schmidt

By crimefictionlover

19 July, 2024

Translated by Jamie Lee Searle — If you haven’t read the first Kalmann novel, first published in 2022, you’ll probably find the opening section its sequel quite disorientating. Ever if you have read it, you may still feel that way. The story is told from…

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Every Spy A Traitor by Alex Gerlis

By RoughJustice

10 June, 2024

Alex Gerlis is a veteran espionage author with three series already behind him, but with Every Spy a Traitor he launches a new series. This time it’s a classic fish out of water story, similar to those written by Eric Ambler, but with a twist….

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The Translator by Harriet Crawley

By Vicki Weisfeld

23 May, 2024

If you’re a US fan of espionage thrillers you’ll be excited that Harriet Crawley’s The Translator – lauded by UK media as one of the best thrillers of 2023 – is finally available in the United States. If you’re a UK follower of this site…

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Romanian espionage with Spy/Master on BBC Four

By crimefictionlover

1 May, 2024

Do you love spy fiction? Do you thrive on subtitles? How does a Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy vibe grab you? If we’re speaking your language then you’ll be thrilled to discover that the Romanian series Spy/Master starts on BBC Four in the UK at 9pm…

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Dark Arena by Jack Beaumont

By Paul Burke

27 February, 2024

There seems to have been a spike in the number of ex-intelligence officers writing espionage novels recently – and they know what they’re talking about. Among them are David McCloskey and IS Berry in America, and James Wolff and Charles Beaumont in Britain. Dark Arena…

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Gabriel's Moon by William Boyd

Mick Herron's Slow Horses reaches season four on Apple TV+

The Trap by Ava Glass

Kalmann and the Sleeping Mountain by Joachim B Schmidt

Every Spy A Traitor by Alex Gerlis

The Translator by Harriet Crawley

Romanian espionage with Spy/Master on BBC Four

Dark Arena by Jack Beaumont

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