Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang: The Boom in British Thrillers from Casino Royale to The Eagle Has Landed
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| Rating | : | 4.83 (840 Votes) |
| Asin | : | B07231LY86 |
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| Number of Pages | : | 459 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-12-23 |
| Language | : | English |
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One FANTASTIC Read! Spy Guys And Gals This is an AWESOME read. I run a website devoted to spy series, many of them from the 60s and 70s, and I like to think I know a thing or three about thrillers from that time. I read, I thought, most of the great books coming out then. I was stunned at how much I was learning about the times, the authors, and the books - all told in a super entertaining way that kept me flying through the pages.The info presented is fascinating. The way the author presents it is almost beyond words. It is that entertaining. Fun hi. "I loved this book!" according to John Veale. I loved this book. Fascinating history of the 'Golden Age' (mainly 1960's and 1970's) thriller and adventure novels. Spent a lot of time in secondhand bookshops in those years looking for these books and the back stories about the authors and the creation of the books was fascinating. Narration was terrific as well. Well done Mr Ripley.
With a foreword by Lee Child. In Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang, Ripley examines the rise of the thriller from the austere 1950s through the boom time of the Swinging '60s and early 1970s, examining some 150 British authors (plus a few notable South Africans). Many have been labelled 'boys' books' written by men who probably never grew up, but, as award-winning writer and critic Mike Ripley recounts, the thrillers of this period provided thrills, adventure and escapism, usually in exotic settings, or, as today's leading thriller writer Lee Child puts it in his foreword, 'the thrill of immersion in a fast and gaudy world'. Drawing upon conversations with many of the authors mentioned in the audiobook, he shows how Br