Graham Greene's work must be included in any survey of top-rank spy novels, and 'Our Man in Havana' may be his best.
Mr. Snowden did not start out as a spy, and calling him one bends the term past recognition. Spies don't give their secrets to journalists for free.
I think in some ways what Snowden is, is he's a mix of a cold war spy novel and post-9/11 spy novel.
For a spy novelist like me, the Edward J. Snowden story has everything. A man driven by ego and idealism - can anyone ever distinguish the two? - leaves his job and his beautiful girlfriend behind. He must tell the world the Panopticon has arrived. His masters vow to punish him, and he heads for Moscow in a desperate search for refuge.
I don't expect people who've enjoyed 'Spy Kids' will enjoy 'Repo! the Genetic Opera!'
I think that whether I can be a Russian spy is being investigated by U.S. government since they learned about Sci-Hub, because that is very logical: a Russian project, that uses university accounts to access some information, of course that is suspicious. But in fact Sci-Hub has always been my personal enterprise.
I think, primarily, we love spy thrillers, and I think, instinctively, we love the tension that those thrillers can bring.
I wanted to be a journalist. The other thing I wanted to be was a spy.
It's a thrilling world, and people really like stories about secrets, which is the essence of a spy drama.
If I could rub a genie and anything could happen? Truthfully, my other love, and this is a complete 180, but I'd love to do a spy or an espionage pic, like a James Bond movie.
