![]() ![]() We meet diplomats, political police, agents provocateurs, secret operatives, resistance fighters, and assassins-players in the Great Game, or victims of the Cold War. These are not just stories of professional intelligence officers. ![]() Thus Alan Furst offers a diverse array of selections that combine raw excitement and intellectual sophistication in an expertly guided tour of the dark world of clandestine conflict. Inspired by the politics of tyranny or war, each of these writers chose the base elements of spy fiction-highly evolved spy fiction-as the framework for a literary novel. Here is an extraordinary collection of work from some of the finest novelists of the twentieth century. An anthology of the world’s best literary espionage, selected by a contemporary master of the genre, Alan Furst. ![]()
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