I recently came across cheap paperbacks of two spy novels by authors I've never read before but who I've long been curious about, ever since I came across their names online.
Joseph Hone's The Flowers of the Forest, released in the US as The Oxford Gambit, is his third novel featuring his Peter Marlow character. The discussion of his work at http://debrief.commanderbond.net/index.php?showtopic=21780 implies that his novels are attempts to work through certain tropes of spy fiction, and if we're thinking along such matters, this is the novel I'm most interested in.
If this wasn't exciting enough for me, I then came across The Soul of Viktor Tronko by David Quammen, which I first heard about at http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4474061. Quammen is better known as a writer of non-fiction works of natural history, but he did write another spy novel called The Zolta Configuration. The one I bought is the one I'm more interested in reading though.
One bad thing about these purchases is how I can't decide which to read first. Even worse is how--if I end up liking these as much as I think I will--I'm going to have to scrounge for more of these authors' works...not the easiest thing to do, I fear.
Have any of you read these authors' works before?
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