The Mammoth Book of Short Spy Novels
The Mammoth Book of Short Spy Novels : 13 Espionage Masterpieces, Complete and Unabridged, from W. Somerset Maughan, Ian Fleming, Leslie Charteris, Erle Stanley Gardner and Others Bill Pronzini, Martin H. Greenberg,
Publisher: Carroll & Graf
ISBN: 0786715049
Edition: Paperback; 2005-02-09
Summary:
From award-winning editor Bill Pronzini comes The Mammoth Book of
Short Spy Novels-a classic book updated for spymasters. Thirteen
outstanding spy and espionage novellas, complete and unabridged, are
gathered here in one terrific volume. They represent a specially
chosen collection from the most accomplished writers in the field,
including W. Somerset Maugham on Ashenden, his operative in World War
I and Ian Fleming on 007 in the Caribbean, as well as Leslie
Charteris, Erle Stanley Gardner, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, and John
Jakes, among others. These works span more than seventy-five years of
espionage writing in the United States and England, and feature
secret agents, counterspies, and double agents in settings from Japan
to the former Eastern Bloc, and from World War I onward.
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