An entertaining history of British Thrillers from Casino Royale to The Eagle Has Landed, in which award-winning crime writer Mike Ripley reveals that, though Britain may have lost an empire, her Thrillers helped save the world.
In three short years, his James Bond novels were already sp.
When Ian Fleming dismissed his books in a 1956 letter to Raymond Chandler as \'straight pillow fantasies of the bang-bang, kiss-Kiss variety\' he was being typically immodest.
With a foreword by Lee Child.
An entertaining history of British Thrillers from Casino Royale to The Eagle Has Landed, in which award-winning crime writer Mike Ripley reveals that, though Britain may have lost an empire, her Thrillers helped save the world