Tom Greer's Blog - Posts Tagged "espionage"
Jack Tate's Amsterdam Tour
Last month a friend and I were in Amsterdam where much of the action in "An Expendable Spy" takes place. While we were there we decided to undertake the "Jack Tate Amsterdam Tour" visiting the various places in that interesting city British Intelligence agent, Jack Tate,visited in his quest to meet up with West German terrorist, Hans-Dieter Schuster.
My companion persuaded me (against my better judgement)to pose with the paperback version of the novel in front of the door to Room 26 (not my actual room)of the hotel where some of the Amsterdam action takes place. Although it wasn't my room, in the novel is WAS Jack Tate's room.
You can imagine the look of bewilderment on the young Chinese couple's faces when they saw me - book in hand - having my photo taken in front of THEIR room!
Anyway, to see more photos from the "Jack Tate Amsterdam Tour" and further description of my time in Amsterdam please nip across to my Facebook page at https://www.facebook.com/tomgreerwrit...
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My companion persuaded me (against my better judgement)to pose with the paperback version of the novel in front of the door to Room 26 (not my actual room)of the hotel where some of the Amsterdam action takes place. Although it wasn't my room, in the novel is WAS Jack Tate's room.
You can imagine the look of bewilderment on the young Chinese couple's faces when they saw me - book in hand - having my photo taken in front of THEIR room!
Anyway, to see more photos from the "Jack Tate Amsterdam Tour" and further description of my time in Amsterdam please nip across to my Facebook page at https://www.facebook.com/tomgreerwrit...
And while you're there please feel free to Like my page.
Funeral in Berlin
Does anyone still read Len Deighton? I see Le Carre feted all over the place and now even authors such as Alan Furst but Deighton' spy novels seem to have gone out of fashion.
Maybe it's because he doesn't seem to be writing anymore and hasn't addressed the contemporary espionage issues away from the Cold War era.
I'm about to re-read "Funeral in Berlin" and can recommend it to any other lovers of Spy Fiction.
"The Ipress Files" can at times be hard going but people should also try his 80s based "Game, Set and Match", "Hook, Line and Sinker" and "London, Berlin, Moscow" trilogy of trilogies featuring the British spy, Bernard Samson.
C'mon, people, time to put Deighton back on the spy fiction map where he belongs... at the top!
Maybe it's because he doesn't seem to be writing anymore and hasn't addressed the contemporary espionage issues away from the Cold War era.
I'm about to re-read "Funeral in Berlin" and can recommend it to any other lovers of Spy Fiction.
"The Ipress Files" can at times be hard going but people should also try his 80s based "Game, Set and Match", "Hook, Line and Sinker" and "London, Berlin, Moscow" trilogy of trilogies featuring the British spy, Bernard Samson.
C'mon, people, time to put Deighton back on the spy fiction map where he belongs... at the top!
An Expendable Spy Free for 5 Days
‘An Expendable Spy’ is FREE today and for the next 5 days from Amazon US at https://www.amazon.com/Expendable-Spy...
And from Amazon UK at https://www.amazon.co.uk/Expendable-S...
Enjoy
And from Amazon UK at https://www.amazon.co.uk/Expendable-S...
Enjoy
