1962 —Cory, Undertow
—Fleming, The Spy Who Loved Me
—Hamilton, The Silencers
—Hamilton, Murderers’ Row
—Deighton, The Ipcress File
—Le Carré, A Murder of Quality
1963 —Cory, Hammerhead
—Deighton, Horse Under Water
—Fleming, On Her Majesty’s Secret Service
—Le Carré, The Spy Who Came In from the Cold
—MacInnes, The Venetian Affair
1964 —Deighton, Funeral in Berlin
—Fleming, You Only Live Twice
—Wilkinson, Night of the Short Knives
1965 —Bingham, A Fragment of Fear
—Fleming, The Man with the Golden Gun
—Hall, The Berlin Memorandum (U.S.: The Quiller Memorandum)
—Hunter, The Expendable Spy
—Le Carré, The Looking Glass War
—O’Donnell, Modesty Blaise
—Semyonov, Petrovka 38
—Simmel, Dear Fatherland
1966 —Bingham, The Double Agent
—Burgess, Tremor of Intent
—Cory, Feramontov
—Deighton, Billion-Dollar Brain
—Fleming, Octopussy and The Living Daylights
—Garner, Overkill
—Hall, The Ninth Directive
—MacInnes, The Double Image
—West, The Night Is a Time for Listening
1967 —Cory, Timelock
—Deighton, An Expensive Place to Die
—Diment, The Dolly Dolly Spy
—Gainham, Night Falls on the City
—Hunter, One of Us Works for Them
1968 —Diment, The Great Spy Race
—Diment, The Bang Bang Birds
—Garner, The Deep, Deep Freeze
—Hall, The Striker Portfolio
—Le Carré, A Small Town in Germany
—MacInnes, The Salzburg Connection
—Semyonov, The Himmler Ploy (aka Seventeen Moments of Spring)
1969 —Garner, The Us or Them War
—Hunter, Spies, Inc.
—Lemaster, Knee Knockers
—Wilkinson, The Adventures of Geoffrey Mildmay
1970 —Simmel, And Jimmy Went Up the Rainbow
1971 —Cory, Sunburst
—Diment, Think Inc.
—Hall, The Warsaw Document
—Hone, The Private Sector
—Lemaster, A Lesson in Tradecraft
—MacInnes, Message from Málaga
1972 —Ambler, The Levanter
1973 —Hall, The Tango Briefing
—Hunt, The Berlin Ending
—Lemaster, The Double Game
—Littell, The Defection of A. J. Lewinter
—McCarry, The Miernik Dossier
1974 —Allbeury, Snowball
—Deighton, Spy Story
—Grady, Six Days of the Condor
—Le Carré, Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy
—McCarry, The Tears of Autumn
1975 —Allbeury, The Special Collection
—Deighton, Yesterday’s Spy
—Hall, The Mandarin Cypher
—Hone, The Sixth Directorate
1976 —Buckley, Saving the Queen
—Deighton, Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Spy
—Lemaster, The Cutout
—MacInnes, Agent in Place
1977 —Latham, Orchids for Mother
—Le Carré, The Honourable Schoolboy
—McCarry, The Secret Lovers
1978 —Allbeury, The Lantern Network
—Buckley, Stained Glass
—Grady, Shadow of the Condor
—Granger, The November Man
—Greene, The Human Factor
—Hall, The Sinkiang Executive
1979 —Allbeury, The Alpha List
—Hall, The Scorpion Signal
—Le Carré, Smiley’s People
—Lemaster, A Spy for All Seasons
—Littell, The Debriefing
1980 —Buckley, Who’s on First
—Tyler, The Man Who Lost the War
1981 —Allbeury, The Other Side of Silence
—Granger, Schism
—Hunt, The Gaza Intercept
—Lemaster, London’s Own
1982 —Bingham, Brock and the Defector
—Granger, The Shattered Eye
—Tyler, Rogue’s March
1983 —Deighton, Berlin Game
—Granger, The British Cross
—Le Carré, The Little Drummer Girl
—McCarry, The Last Supper
—Quammen, The Zolta Configuration
1984 —Buckley, The Story of Henri Tod
—Deighton, Mexico Set
—Lemaster, A Glancing Blow
—MacInnes, Ride a Pale Horse
1985 —Buckley, See You Later, Alligator
—Deighton, London Match
—Hall, Northlight (U.S.: Quiller)
—Hunt, The Kremlin Conspiracy
1986 —Allbeury, No Place to Hide
—Buckley, High Jinx
—Hood, Spy Wednesday
—Le Carré, A Perfect Spy
—Lemaster, Requiem for a Spy
—Littell, The Sisters
1987 —Buckley, Mongoose, R.I.P.
—Quammen, The Soul of Viktor Tronko
1988 —Allbeury, A Wilderness of Mirrors
—Deighton, Spy Hook
—Furst, Night Soldiers
1989 —Hall, Quiller KGB
—Deighton, Spy Line
—Hood, Cry Spy (last non-Lemaster purchase, just afterBerlin Wall came down)
—Le Carré, The Russia House
—Lemaster, Render unto Caesar
Post–Cold War
1991 —Lemaster, A Final Folly
1994 —Lemaster, The Sinking of the Bellwether
1997 —Lemaster, Strength in Numbers
2000 —Lemaster, Duty, Honor, Betrayal
2003 —Lemaster, The Tent of the Sheik
2007 —Lemaster, Remote Control
Acknowledgments
When your characters and plot spring not only from your imagination but also from a lifetime of satisfied reading, it is difficult to know where to begin saying thanks. David Cornwell, aka John le Carré, is probably an appropriate starting point, since his Smiley novels were my entrée to the classics of espionage fiction, back when the Cold War was as chilly and gray as a January sky over Berlin. And while I’m not a collector of first editions like, say, Warfield Cage, I am lucky enough to have a true first of The Spy Who Came In from the Cold, a copy of which the author was kind enough to sign for me several years ago. The novels of Graham Greene, Len Deighton, and Charles McCarry also marked me at a relatively early age, enough to remind me of the Elvis Costello song lyric that asks, “Who put these fingerprints on my imagination?”
Yet, for all my voracious reading, I had no inkling of how widely and deeply the genre had cast its nets until I began researching this novel. James Fenimore Cooper, that guy we had to read in high school? Yes, even he was a practitioner. I owe the work of many sources for that sort of information. Among those worthy of specific thanks are Stephen J. Gertz, who is not only an expert on rare books but also an authority on the quirky phenomenon of the book scout; and Otto Penzler, who, when it comes to spy fiction, seems to have collected, read, and assessed everything ever written. In Budapest, Professor Istvan Rev, a historian at Central European University, offered valuable insights on the fortunes of the antiquarian book trade during the Cold War and beyond.
Thanks are also due to a few dozen former operatives of the CIA, who spoke with me as part of my research for another project, but whose experiences, insights, and, in some cases, authorial forays, helped light my way. I’m particularly grateful for a pleasant afternoon spent chatting with CIA veteran William Hood, whose novel Spy Wednesday earned a cameo in this book’s chapters in Vienna, the city of his greatest Cold
War triumph.
Finally, although Bill Cage puts little stock in so-called nonfiction, I found many such volumes to be quite helpful, especially Tom Mangold’s Cold Warrior, Evan Thomas’s The Very Best Men, and Genrikh Borovik’s The Philby Files.
A NOTE ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Dan Fesperman’s travels as a writer have taken him to thirty countries and three war zones. Lie in the Dark won the Crime Writers’ Association of Britain’s John Creasey Memorial Dagger Award for best first crime novel, The Small Boat of Great Sorrows won their Ian Fleming Steel Dagger Award for best thriller, and The Prisoner of Guantánamo won the Dashiell Hammett Award from the International Association of Crime Writers. He lives in Baltimore.
ALSO BY DAN FESPERMAN
Layover in Dubai
The Arms Maker of Berlin
The Amateur Spy
The Prisoner of Guantánamo
The Warlord’s Son
The Small Boat of Great Sorrows
Lie in the Dark
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