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Erskine Childers

The Riddle of the Sands (1903)

Joseph Conrad

The Secret Agent (1907)

John Buchan

The Thirty-Nine Steps (1915)

W. Somerset Maugham

Ashenden (1928)

Eric Ambler

The Mask of Dimitrios (1939)

Graham Greene

Our Man in Havana (1958)

John Le Carré

The Spy Who Came in from the Cold (1963)

Len Deighton

Funeral in Berlin (1964)

Lionel Davidson

A Long Way to Shiloh (1966) and Kolymsky Heights (1994)

John Le Carré

A Small Town in Germany (1968)

Ken Follett

The Man from St Petersburg (1982)

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Literature Reference: American Literature, English Literature, Classics & Modern FictionAuthors on FictionSpy: Michael Shea