• Who?
  • Novels
    • TOURISM:
    • The Last Tourist
    • An American Spy
    • The Nearest Exit
    • The Tourist
    • YALTA BOULEVARD:
    • Victory Square
    • Liberation Movements
    • 36 Yalta Boulevard
    • The Confession
    • The Bridge of Sighs
    • STANDALONES:
    • The Middleman
    • All The Old Knives
    • The Cairo Affair
  • Film/TV
    • Berlin Station
    • All the Old Knives
    • Inheritance
  • More
    • Short Fiction
    • Criticism
    • Extras

Olen Steinhauer

  • Who?
  • Novels
    • TOURISM:
    • The Last Tourist
    • An American Spy
    • The Nearest Exit
    • The Tourist
    • YALTA BOULEVARD:
    • Victory Square
    • Liberation Movements
    • 36 Yalta Boulevard
    • The Confession
    • The Bridge of Sighs
    • STANDALONES:
    • The Middleman
    • All The Old Knives
    • The Cairo Affair
  • Film/TV
    • Berlin Station
    • All the Old Knives
    • Inheritance
  • More
    • Short Fiction
    • Criticism
    • Extras

In keeping with the Tinker Tailor theme, Salon asked a number of espionage aficionados—and me—for to answer a few questions about Cold War spy fiction and the current state of the genre. My two cents are at the very bottom.Note the freakishly similar opening sentences shared by me and Charles Cumming…


December 9, 2011
by Olen Steinhauer

The state of the post-Cold War spy novel - Salon.com

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novels

The Middleman
All the Old Knives
The Cairo Affair

 

The Tourist
The Nearest Exit
An American Spy
The Last Tourist

TV/FILM

Berlin Station
All the Old Knives
Inheritance


The Bridge of Sighs
The Confession
36 Yalta Boulevard
Liberation Movements
Victory Square

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