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Crime Fiction Links of the Week for March 30, 2024


It's time again for Crime Fiction Links of the Week, our weekly round-up of interesting links about crime fiction from around the web, this week with series 13 of  Death in Paradise, Passenger, Renegade Nell, tributes to Louis Gossett Jr. and much more:

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Tributes to Louis Gossett Jr: 
 
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Research: 
 
Free online fiction: 
 
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  1. SpiesAreUs30 March 2024 at 16:05

    Fiction, fiction, fiction ... why are so many historical and in particular espionage films and books thus? It is a real shame more historical and espionage thrillers aren't truly fact based. Courtesy of being fictional the viewers’ and readers’ experience is narrowed and the extra dimensions available from reading fact based books or seeing such films are lost. Factual novels and films enable the reader to research more about what’s in the book or film in press cuttings, history books etc and such research can be as rewarding and compelling as reading an enthralling novel or watching a great movie. Furthermore, if even just marginally autobiographical, the author or producer has the opportunity to convey the protagonist’s genuine hopes and fears as opposed to hypothetical drivel about say what it feels like to avoid capture.

    A good example of such a "real" espionage thriller is Beyond Enkription, the first volume in The Burlington Files series by Bill Fairclough (ex MI6 codename JJ). Its protagonist was of course a real as opposed to a celluloid spy and has even been likened to a "posh and sophisticated Harry Palmer". He was one of Pemberton’s People in MI6 (see later). The first book in the series is indisputably noir, maybe even a tad Deightonesque. It’s considered compulsory reading for espionage aficionados. If anyone ever makes a film based on Beyond Enkription they'll only have themselves to blame if it doesn't go down in history as a classic espionage thriller.

    Whether you’re a le Carré connoisseur, a Deighton disciple, a Fleming fanatic, a Herron hireling or a Macintyre marauder, odds on once you are immersed in it you’ll read this titanic production twice. No wonder it's mandatory reading on some countries’ intelligence induction programs. You can find out more about Pemberton’s People in an article dated 31 October 2022 on The Burlington Files website.

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