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Item Information   Holdings     Summary     More Content       More by this author     Ripley, Mike, author.     Subjects     Suspense fiction, English -- History and criticism.     Spy stories, English -- History and criticism.     Browse Catalog     by author:      Ripley, Mike, author.       by title:      Kiss kiss, bang bang...         MARC Display

Kiss kiss, bang bang : the boom in British thrillers from Casino Royale to The Eagle Has Landed : how Britain lost an empire but its secret agents saved the world / Mike Ripley ; [foreword by Lee Child] by Ripley, Mike, author. [London] : HarperCollinsPublishers, 2017. Subjects Suspense fiction, English -- History and criticism.   Spy stories, English -- History and criticism. ISBN:  9780008172237 (hardback) : 0008172234 (hardback) Description:  xx, 428 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm Requests:  0 Summary:  "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 modest. In three short years, his James Bond novels were already spearheading a boom in thriller fiction that would dominate the bestseller lists, not just in Britain, but internationally. The decade following World War II had seen Britain lose an Empire, demoted in terms of global power and status and economically crippled by debt; yet its fictional spies, secret agents, soldiers, sailors and even (occasionally) journalists were now saving the world on a regular basis. In Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang, Ripley examines the rise of the thriller from the austere 1950s through the boom time of the Swinging Sixties and early 1970s, examining some 150 British authors (plus a few notable South Africans). Drawing upon conversations with many of the authors mentioned in the book, he shows how British writers, working very much in the shadow of World War II, came to dominate the field of adventure thrillers and the two types of spy story--'spy fantasy' (as epitomised by Ian Fleming's James Bond) and the more realistic spy fiction created by Deighton, Le Carré, and Ted Allbeury, plus the many variations (and imitators) in between"--adapted from Amazon.com.   Copy/Holding information Location Collection Call No. Status   Hawaii State Library Language, Literature & History 823.0872 Ri Checked In Add Copy to MyList Hilo Public Library Adult Nonfiction 823.0872 Ripley Checked In Add Copy to MyList Kailua Public Library Adult Nonfiction 823.0872 Ri Checked In Add Copy to MyList

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