![]() Note too that both kinds of spy novels, from E. ![]() In the first kind, the “good guys” and the “bad guys” are easily distinguished one from the other, and in the second there are no good guys or bad guys, the villain is the state, or history, and the spy/hero is a deeply conflicted figure, and by no means an attractive or athletic person (George Smiley, for example, is overweight, a cuckold, and in many ways not dissimilar from his KGB opponents).Īll I can say is that Eric Ambler and Graham Greene would have read his books with pleasure, and that somebody like Orson Welles could have made a marvelous movie. There are two schools of spy fiction: The first is glossy, techno-oriented, full of spectacular violence and even more spectacular sex, the prime example of which are Ian Fleming’s James Bond novels (and the posthumous sequels) and the second, the back-streets, seedy, morally ambiguous world that was virtually created by Eric Ambler and Graham Greene, and very successfully continued by John le Carré. ![]()
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