Books Quote by Nelson DeMille

I like lassic British spy thrillers. Seriously. If the cold war was still on, that's something I'd be writing.

— Charles Stross

The world has changed, the CIA is having to change, and again, the challenge for someone like me as a spy novelist is to…

— David Ignatius

I grew up reading the classic novels of Cold War espionage, and I studied Russian history and Soviet foreign policy.

— Daniel Silva

Of John Le Carre's books, I've only read 'The Spy Who Came In From The Cold,' and I haven't read anything by Graham Greene,…

— Kim Young-ha

[2015] it's a time that there's a clash of ideologies, similar to the Cold War. I think that a story like this has been…

— Steven Knight

If you had told me twenty years ago that I would write a novel set in Russia, much less two, I simply wouldn't have…

— Debra Dean

How are we to write The Russian novel in America As long as life goes so unterribly?

— Robert Frost

I found that our Soviet espionage efforts had virtually never, or had very seldom, produced any worthwhile political or economic intelligence on the Soviet…

— Aldrich Ames

It's much different today than it was during the Cold War. The CIA is not the subject of many books anymore. But that might…

— Nelson DeMille

Of all the many memoirs by former Soviet officials, Palazchenko's is among the best written and also the most objective. Even his descriptions of…

— Jack F. Matlock, Jr

We have learned in recent years to translate almost all of political life in terms of conspiracy. And the spy novel, as never before,…

— John le Carre

“Russian espionage directed against the West has been rising since 2001. We kind of forgot that you don’t need communism to set up an…

— Charles Stross