tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11906042.post5273917832725149125..comments2024-03-22T11:55:50.335+13:00Comments on Not PC: Top 5 spy novelsPeter Cresswellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10699845031503699181noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11906042.post-84942257469866894452009-06-15T20:02:30.662+12:002009-06-15T20:02:30.662+12:00John Buchan, The 39 Steps
Sir Walter Scott, Redgau...John Buchan, <i>The 39 Steps</i><br />Sir Walter Scott, <i>Redgauntlet</i><br />Tony Cape, <i>The Cambridge Theorem</i><br />Ian Fleming, <i>Goldfinger</i> and <i>The Spy Who Loved Me</i><br />Alistair MacLean, <i>The Secret Ways</i> ( AKA <i>The Last Frontier</i>) and <i>The Way To Dusty Death</i><br /><br />Scott is the template for Buchan: the outer reaches of Scotland, a man falsely accused, invading revolutionaries and thus the template for Hitchcock and what follows.G. E. Lighthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05940598194009064484noreply@blogger.com