The defector is the most useful character in espionage fiction and also the least trustworthy

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Bureaucratic betrayal in espionage fiction hurts more than a shootout Tradecraft in espionage fiction is mostly paperwork and waiting and that is what makes it credible Series characters in spy fiction age in real time and the authors keep rebooting them Surveillance technology has killed the classic spy fiction stakeout and the genre has not replaced it The big spy fiction series now run to twenty books and the reading order matters more than it should The thriller has quietly absorbed horror and science fiction and nobody agrees where the line now sits Le Carré turned the spy novel into an office novel and the office was the whole point The mole hunt is the perfect espionage fiction structure because the enemy is inside the building Moral greyness in espionage fiction is not cynicism: it is the only honest position available to a spy Who is the adversary in contemporary spy fiction when the enemy is a network and not a country?