Death by Espionage: Intriguing Stories of Betrayal and Deception
Edited by Martin Cruz Smith
So few spies reach retirement age. Perhaps that's because the first rule of the game is that everybody dies — well, almost everybody. The stories in Death by Espionage come from the imaginations of members of the International Associations of Crime Writers and some of the world's most well-known authors. Their agents of death stealthily slip in and out of this collection of nineteen stories with settings ranging from Victorian England to Hitler's Fortress Europa to the post-Cold War world. The stories delve into themes of betrayal, revenge, and treachery and demonstrate the mind games and manipulations of which spies are capable.
The collection of mayhem includes:
- "Betrayed" — John D. MacDonald
- "Dr. Sweetkill" — John Jakes
- "What You Don't Know" — Stuart M. Kaminsky
- "A Curious Experience" — Mark Twain
- "The Story of a Conscience" — Ambrose Bierce
- "Two Fishers" — Guy de Maupassant
- "Charlie's Game" — Brian Garfield
- "The Adventure of the Bruce-Partington Plans" — Arthur Conan Doyle
- "The Little Green Book" — Jack Ritchie
- "Winds of Change" — John Lutz
- "Enemy Territory" — Edward D. Hoch
- "Tooth Marks" — Bob Mendes
- "Wangeroong, de Schoone..." — Jürgen Ehlers
- "The Ant Trap" — Howard Engel
- "Golam" — José Latour
- "A Telephone Call Too Many" — Carmen Iarrera
- "A Part of History" — Michael Collins
- "A Demon in My Head" — Jean-Hugues Oppel
- "A Spy's Fate" — Arnaldo Correa
These stories brim with missions behind enemy lines, Swiss bank accounts, and coded instructions. There are German spies in America and Allied spies in Europe during World War II. There are Israeli spies in Latin America. There are assassins and seducers, stolen plans, and intricate games of cat and mouse. And there are grudges. The universal rule, however, is that no one gets to write their memoirs.
| Editor and author MARTIN CRUZ SMITH has penned many best-selling works and is the winner of the Hammett Prize from the International Association of Crime Writers for his novel, "Rose." Other successful titles include "Canto for a Gypsy," "Nightwing," "Gorky Park," "Polar Star," "and "Red Square." Currently at work on his next novel, he lives in California with his wife and children. |
$9.99, Hardcover
ISBN-10: 1-58182-040-2 (Hardcover)
ISBN-13: 978-1-58182-040-9 (Hardcover)
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