Kiss kiss, bang bang : the boom in British thrillers from Casino royale to The eagle has landed : how Britain lost an empire but its secret agents saved the world /

When Ian Fleming dismissed his books in a 1956 letter to Raymond Chandler as straight pillow fantasies of the bang-bang, kiss-kiss variety, he was being typically immodest. In three short years, his James Bond novels were already spearheading a boom in thriller fiction that would dominate the bestse...

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Main Author:	Ripley, Mike (Author)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	London : HarperCollinsPublishers, [2017].
Subjects:	Suspense fiction, English > History and criticism. Spy stories, English > History and criticism.