The Chinese Visitor (1965), James Eastwood’s first Anna Zordan spy novel. It belongs to the sexy lady spy sub-genre. Anna is an expert seductress which is useful although she can certainly handle herself in other situations. Good fun.

My review: https://vintagepopfictions.blogspot.com/2023/08/james-eastwoods-chinese-visitor.html

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Kenneth Royce’s 1970 spy novel The XYY Man is about a cat burglar recruited as a spy but with an interesting psychiatric twist. He can't help being a thief. Gritty, action-packed with a serious edge and highly entertaining. Highly recommended.

My review: https://vintagepopfictions.blogspot.com/2023/08/kenneth-royces-xyy-man.html

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#HiddenBlade is coming to digital media July 18th! (Presumably their own platform)
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Speaking of Spy Thrillers, I am really enjoying Richard Sorge: Master Spy / Zorge (2019, Russia).

One of the best parts is it shows how clearly the currents of history are driven by the ambitions, ego, pettiness, grudges & personal feelings of the players involved, & how their actions work against their ostensible goals as much as for them.

https://www.justwatch.com/us/tv-show/zorge

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I just put together a list of Spy Thrillers (on streaming services) to share with a friend, so here it comes for all of you, too.

The links below for JustWatch.com show availability of shows in the US -- if you want the links to work for you in other regions, just change the country settings on the website.

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A.S. Fleischman's 1953 spy thriller Danger in Paradise. An American in Bali is handed a package by a girl. She is killed, except that that's not possible.

Excitement, intrigue, dangerous sexy women, romance and a very solid plot. Great stuff.

My review: https://vintagepopfictions.blogspot.com/2023/03/as-fleischmans-danger-in-paradise.html

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Ice Station Zebra (1968), one of my favourite Alistair MacLean adaptations. More a low-key espionage drama than an action movie but there's suspense and danger on the ice and under it.

Patrick McGoohan makes a fine spy hero. He gets good support from Rock Hudson and Ernest Borgnine.

My review: https://princeplanetmovies.blogspot.com/2013/04/ice-station-zebra-1968.html

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Tong in Cheek (1973), 2nd of Gardner Francis Fox’s Cherry Delight sexy spy thrillers written under the name Glen Chase.

Cherry is a secret agent working for N.Y.M.P.H.O., a shadowy top-secret US government agency.

This time she is up against an alliance between the Mafia and Chinese tongs.

If spy sleaze is your thing you’ll enjoy it.

My review: https://vintagepopfictions.blogspot.com/2023/01/tong-in-cheek-cherry-delight-2.html

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Assignment Helene (1959), an excellent Sam Durell spy novel written by Edward S. Aarons.

Durell ends up in the jungle on the track of gun-runners with two beautiful women, both decidedly untrustworthy, an equally untrustworthy US diplomat and a broken-down American ex-CIA agent.

There's a good mystery here, and there's action.

My review: https://vintagepopfictions.blogspot.com/2023/01/edward-s-aarons-assignment-helene.html

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Anime Review: Spy X Family Cour 2

https://countzeroor.com/2023/01/14/anime-review-spy-x-family-cour-2/

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Ken and Robin Consume Media: The Menu, Slow Horses, and The Big Four

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https://www.kenandrobintalkaboutstuff.com/index.php/ken-and-robin-consume-media-the-menu-slow-horses-and-the-big-four/

The Towers of Silence (1966), the second Peter Ward spy novel by E. Howard Hunt (of Watergate fame).

Peter Ward is investigating the death of a CIA agent in India.

Ward is a realistic kind of spy who relies on tradecraft rather than instinct. He's a hard-headed professional, ruthless, unromantic.

A good spy thriller.

My review: https://vintagepopfictions.blogspot.com/2023/01/e-howard-hunts-towers-of-silence.html

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Hitchcock's The Man Who Knew Too Much (1934), superior in every way to his ill-advised 1956 remake.

This is a tense hard-hitting spy thriller and one of the first movies to deal with terrorism. One of Hitchcock's most violent movies.

Great performances by all cast members with Peter Lorre the standout.

My review: https://dfordoom-movieramblings.blogspot.com/2021/12/the-man-who-knew-too-much-1934.html

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In Ian Fleming's 1958 novel DR NO James Bond's inquiries into the death of a British agent take him to a tiny Caribbean island. The locals tell him it's guarded by a dragon.

He encounters a beautiful naked girl, Honeychile Rider (who differs from the movie character in one crucial respect). And he will have to foil the plans of a megalomaniac.

A great Bond novel.

My review: https://vintagepopfictions.blogspot.com/2021/10/ian-flemings-dr-no.html

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The Man Who Knew Too Much (1934) marked the beginning of the extraordinary run of great British thrillers made by Alfred Hitchcock in the 1930s. His first spy thriller.

With Peter Lorre in great form as a sinister assassin, and the Albert Hall scene is one of Hitch's first great visual set-pieces.

Much better than his ill-advised 1956 remake.

My review: https://dfordoom-movieramblings.blogspot.com/2021/12/the-man-who-knew-too-much-1934.html

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Day of the Guns, first of Mickey Spillane’s four Tiger Mann espionage thrillers written 1964-1966.

Not surprisingly the formula is not all that different from Spillane’s Mike Hammer novels. There’s plenty of sex and violence. Tiger Mann resembles Mike Hammer in that he gets personally involved in a case and the case quickly becomes a kind of one-man crusade.

Great fun.

My review: https://vintagepopfictions.blogspot.com/2017/01/mickey-spillanes-day-of-guns.html

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Gavin Lyall’s 1963 novel The Most Dangerous Game, the second of his superb spy thrillers. An aviation spy thriller.

Lyall was very much in the Alistair MacLean mould. MacLean has many imitators. Lyall was the only one in the same league as the master.

Great stuff, with a cool setting (Lapland).

My review: https://vintagepopfictions.blogspot.com/2016/02/gavin-lyalls-most-dangerous-game.html

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