The Special Branch
The British Spy Novel, 1890-1980
by LeRoy Panek
288 pages· 1981· ISBN 9780879721787
About
The author has chosen seventeen of the most important or representative British spy novelists to write about. He presents some basic literary analysis and criticism, trying both to place them in historical perspective and to describe and analyze the content and form of their fiction.
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