Some Espionage Fiction Reads I've Enjoyed Lately
[Hi all! Been quiet here of late, I think I’ve been over-thinking what should go in this blog. Fixing that!]
Some #espionage fiction reads I’ve enjoyed lately:
David McCloskey is a former CIA analyst, and I’ve read and enjoyed a few of his books:
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This was the first of his books I read. It introduces Artemis Proctor—a towering, stupendous badass of a spy whose favorite management tool is her Mossberg shotgun.
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This was a change of scene for McCloskey—the main plot centers on a Mossad operation involving a spy in Tehran. I really enjoyed it!
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I think I enjoyed this book a lot more than other reviewers did, and I suspect I know why. In some respects, it’s less a traditional espionage read and more a work of dark fiction examining the train wreck a Trump or Trump-like administration can cause in the US intelligence community—and, perhaps equally importantly, the damage it can do to long-standing relationships with intelligence partners we’ve traditionally been very happily in bed with.
And one last book by M.P. Woodward:
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I enjoyed this book, but it all felt a bit clichéd and… trope-y? The characters were reasonably well developed, and the overall story was perfectly fine, but I just felt like the net result didn’t push me over the top, as some other books have.