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The Mammoth Book of Short Spy Novels: Twelve Espionage Masterpieces Revised Edition
Author(s): Bill Pronzini (Editor), Martin H. Greenberg
- Publisher: Running Press
- Publication Date: January 11, 2005
- Edition: Revised Edition
- Language: English
- Print length: 512 pages
- ISBN-10: 0786715049
- ISBN-13: 9780786715046
Book Description
From award-winning editor Bill Pronzini comes The Mammoth Book of Short Spy Novelsa 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.
