From spycraft to love and secrets in the last years of East Berlin, this is Oskar Jensen's pick of the fiction inspired by ...

Readers of spy fiction may have wondered if the genre would melt away after the Cold War, but it turns out the secret world of espionage is timeless. All a good spy novel needs are a brave hero ...

There seem to be two schools of thought about The Spy Who Came in From the Cold ... Cusack with his tea pots and easy acceptance of Cold War expediencies. He says to Leamas (Burton): "Our policies ...