"The Spy Who Came In From The Cold" was the best spy book I have ever read. The movie with the late Richard Burton was ok, but not as good.

The detail and the build-up was fantastic and believable. Until about the last two or three pages, I had no idea about the twist that was going to be executed. The twist was very logical and believable in its explanation and execution. Sad ending, but realistic.

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Frederick Forsyth stuff is really good when it comes to spy novels.

I personally think that you can't beat the old classics - Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes. Great <img src="images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" />.

While not spy stories per say. I grew up on the Hardy Boys and The Adventures of Tin Tin.

I'm a sci-fi fan. Issac Asimov's murder/mystery novels with "plaincolthesman" Elijah Baley in the books "The caves of Steel" and "The Robots of Dawn" are my favourites.
Wonderful stuff, which I must read again.

I've always enjoyed 7 Days of the Condor with my favourite actor, Max Von Sydow. I am fascinated with the exploits of individuals in WW2. My Coast Guard Boot Camp Chief talked to us about Admiral Canaris, Who secretly worked against the nazi regime. Only a few of us got the message. Sometimes the greatest enemy to freedom isn't another nation, and "All enemies, foriegn and domestic" needs remembering.

Then you MUST see and read "Eye of the Needle"; movie with Donald Southerland.
This is a classic WW2 spy movie. Love, action, gadgets, very good.

I'm Not Fully or Sufficiently Familiar with the Genre and Field!, to Make a For Sure!, Definitive # 1 Personal Choice! Especially when it Comes to Such Spy Books or Novels!

But the Movie (and Book) "Telefon", -Late 70s, -Starring Chuck Bronson and Lee Remick, -Has to be a Top One of Them!

KGB, CIA, Cold War, Fast Paced Action, Intrigue, and Intertwining Plots! Against a Quite Realistic Base and Backdrop! It's All Here!

Bronson and Remick as KGB Agents in the U.S., Trying to Put the Kabosh on Another KGB Wild Cannon Self Servingly on the Loose here! (This is that Dalmchimsky Character!) (He and the Country Bar Lady gets Along like Cats and Dogs!)

Poet Robert Frost's Famous Line about How he's Got "Miles to Go Before I Sleep!", is an Internal Thread the Movie Keeps Coming Back To!, and Revolving About!

You Get that 70s America Flavor and Feel here too!

I may have Given Portions of it Away too much here! But I've Kept a Lot Out Too!

I Urge People to Go and See and Read it Sometime!, if you Havn't Already!

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Another good one is Ken Follett. All his spy books are great, Eye of the Needle, Key to Rebecca, Night over Water, etc

What on earth am I talking about? Sherlock Holmes? Spy thriller? Must have had a stupid moment.

If you are not familiar with it, www.imdb.com is a good source to look up old movies and tv shows.
They even had details on Crunch and Dez, Soldiers of Fortune (Tim Kelly and Tubo Smith), as well as The Man and the Challenge.
Lots of good old tv and movie nostalgia.
I guess I am dating myself.

If I recall correctly, Canaris met a very tragic death at the hands of the Nazis.

LOL, i gotta stick up for ditchfield here.

quite a few of the sherlock holmes movies involved ww2 and or germans,nzai or english agents.

so id say holmes could be a spy thriller movie, right?

Right you are!
Elementary!
Tha Nazis did it!