Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang: The Boom in British Thrillers from Casino Royale to the Eagle Has Landed

by Mike Ripley

Book Overview

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,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0008172234
• ISBN13: 9780008172237
• Release Date: May 2017
• Publisher: HarperCollins
• Length: 448 Pages
• Weight: 1.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.6" x 6.3" x 9.3"