Kiss kiss, bang bang : (Record no. 3202)

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020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER
International Standard Book Number 9780008172251 (pbk.)
International Standard Book Number 0008172250 (pbk.)
035 ## - SYSTEM CONTROL NUMBER
System control number (OCoLC)1102270182
050 ## - LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CALL NUMBER
Classification number PR830.S87
Item number R56 2019
100 1# - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME
Personal name Ripley, Mike.
245 10 - TITLE STATEMENT
Title Kiss kiss, bang bang :
Remainder of title 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 /
Statement of responsibility, etc. Mike Ripley ; foreword by Lee Child.
250 ## - EDITION STATEMENT
Edition statement pbk. ed.
260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC.
Place of publication, distribution, etc. London :
Name of publisher, distributor, etc. HarperCollinsPublishers,
Date of publication, distribution, etc. 2019.
300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Extent xx, 439 p. :
Other physical details ill.
500 ## - GENERAL NOTE
General note Reprint. Originally published: 2009.
504 ## - BIBLIOGRAPHY, ETC. NOTE
Bibliography, etc. note Includes bibliographical references and index.
520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC.
Summary, etc. WINNER OF THE HRF KEATING AWARD FOR BEST NON-FICTION CRIME BOOK 2018 An entertaining history of British thrillers from Casino Royale to The Eagle Has Landed, in which award-winning crime writer Mike Ripley reveals that, though Britain may have lost an empire, her thrillers helped save the world. With a foreword by Lee Child. 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 immodest. 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. From Ian Fleming and Alistair MacLean in the 1950s through Desmond Bagley, Dick Francis, Len Deighton and John Le Carré in the 1960s, to Frederick Forsyth and Jack Higgins in the 1970s. Many have been labelled 'boys' books' written by men who probably never grew up but, as award-winning writer and critic Mike Ripley recounts, the thrillers of this period provided the reader with thrills, adventure and escapism, usually in exotic settings, or as today's leading thriller writer Lee Child puts it in his Foreword: 'the thrill of immersion in a fast and gaudy world.' 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.
586 ## - AWARDS NOTE
Awards note HRF Keating Award for Best Non-Fiction Crime Book 2018.
650 #4 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical term or geographic name entry element Suspense fiction, English
General subdivision History and criticism.
Topical term or geographic name entry element Spy stories, English
General subdivision History and criticism.
700 1# - ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME
Personal name Child, Lee.
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