Sentences with phrase «author of spy thrillers»

American author Robert Ludlum was an author of spy thrillers best known for writing The Bourne Identity and its sequels which have been translated to film.

Not exact matches

When Jason Matthews's best - selling spy thriller novel Red Sparrow debuted in 2013, the CIA gave it a glowing review in an official statement, toasting the former agent - turned - author's ability to convey accurately the stomach - churning tension a spy feels when covering tracks to protect sources and win the war of intelligence.

Best - selling author Tom Clancy was executive producer of this made - for - TV spy thriller, which debuted on ABC in 1999.

Based on the bestselling novel by former spy turned author John le Carré, the movie looks like a throwback to those great, low - key political thrillers from the 1970s, and if that's not enough to pique your interest, then a brief glance at the cast list — a veritable who's who of the best British actors working today, including Colin Firth, Tom Hardy, Mark Strong and Benedict Cumberbatch of «Sherlock» fame — will almost certainly change your mind.

Following the adaptation of Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, this big screen take on yet another slow, quiet thriller from author John le Carré already sounds enticing.

Our Kind of Traitor Ewan McGregor and Naomie Harris star as a couple who find themselves as pawns in a game between the Russian Mafia and the British Secret Service in this gripping spy thriller based on the novel by bestselling author John Le Carré («Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy»spy thriller based on the novel by bestselling author John Le Carré («Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy»Spy»).

Other than one brief moment of co-star Michael Keaton in all his crazed, lunatic, wide - eyes glory, American Assassin turns out to be as unrelentingly second - rate a spy - versus - spy espionage thriller as any this side of the direct - to - DVD market, wasting great source material from author Vince Flynn in the process.

Ethan Jones is a lawyer living in Canada and the author of the wildly popular Justin Hall spy thriller series, which has eight books so far.

I'm thinking former CIA agent Jason Matthews (author of Red Sparrow), former MI6 agent Matthew Dunn (whose upcoming thriller Dark Spies will be reviewed in the October issue of BookPage) and Stella Rimington, the first female chief of MI5 — and that's just off the top of my head.

Alesha is the author of The Gray Tower Trilogy, an action - packed, supernatural spy thriller set in an alternate 1940's.

It turned out that Duns — author of the Paul Dark series of spy novels for Simon and Schuster — had done some investigative work on a few Amazon reviews (godspeed, sir, in that abode of the damned) and come up with conclusive proof that bestselling thriller writer R. J. Ellory had engaged in sock puppeting: using aliases to write positive reviews on the site for his own books, whilst slamming those of his rivals.

Carter is the author of two nonfiction works and uses her skills in research to create a vividly set historical thriller tracing the adventures of William Avery, a newly arrived British solider, and Jeremiah Blake, a seasoned spy gone native.

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