On today's Spybrary Spy Podcast, we turn our attention to Spy TV and the British spy tv series The Sandbaggers starring Roy Marsden and created by Ian Mackintosh. We are joined by Spybrary Podcast listeners, Hannah Cooper, Jeffrey Westhoff, and Peter Newman. More About The Sandbaggers The Sandbaggers is a British spy drama television series...
Jeff Gelb pays tribute to Andy East, a friend of almost 40 years who passed away on Feb 12th.Andy East loved spy movies, tv, and books and wrote The Cold War File. Andy brought a lot of spy fiction knowledge to the Spybrary community and will be sadly missed by us all. Andy East RIP...
The Spy Command‘s Bill Koenig records a Brush Pass following the passing of illustrator Mort Drucker. A drawing of Ian Fleming by Mort Drucker. It was from the collection of a Bond collector who died several years ago and was put up for auction Bill tells us. Bill shares more with us about Mort Drucker's...
Join us for a virtual happy hour via Zoom. 3.30pm EST – Saturday, April 11th. If you are not a zoom user – click the invite link and download the app that will allow you to access the meeting room. Spybrary is inviting you to a scheduled Zoom meeting. Topic: Spybrary Virtual Happy HourTime: Apr...
Spybrary Podcast listener Peter Newman sends us in his Brush Pass Spy Book Review of A Man of Some Repute by Elizabeth Edmonson Brush Pass – a quick review from Spybrary listeners on the books they love (and hate!) More about A Man of Some Repute by Elizabeth Edmondson Truth is rarely pure and never...
Author and former member of the Intelligence Corps, Rossa McPhillips shares more about his first novel The Contact– a spy thriller set in Northern Ireland. Rossa also shares more about his real-life experiences working in the shadows and how that influences his writing.We also put him through his paces in the world-famous Spybrary Quick Fire...
Matthew Kresal sends us in his Brush Pass Review of Parting Shot by James Kunetka. Brush Pass – a quick review from Spybrary listeners on the books they love (and hate!) More about Parting Shot by James Kunetka From Publishers Weekly The year is 1945 and a crumbling Third Reich leaves a legacy: nuclear bombs...
The Spy Command‘s Bill Koenig records a Brush Pass following the passing of Robert Conrad who starred in the Wild Wild West – where spies meet cowboys! Brush Pass – a quick review from Spybrary listeners on the books they love (and hate!) Brush Pass reviews are not literary criticism. Imagine telling a friend about...
Spy Book Titles with Jeremy Duns and Jeff Quest In this episode, writer Jeremy Duns and Spywrite's Jeff Quest take a look at the good, the bad and the ugly of spy book titles. They discuss some of their favorites, alternate titles, translated titles and the many pitfalls authors face when determining a book title....
On Episode 101 of the Spybrary Podcast, our guest host, the journalist and best-selling author Michael Smith chats with Geoff Andrews about his new book: Agent Molière: The Life of John Cairncross, the Fifth Man of the Cambridge Spy Circle. Special thanks to Michael Smith for hosting Episode 101 of the Spybrary Podcast. Got a...
