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Sup whatchamacal/lit/s,

I'm looking for spy novels - or at least fairly involving spies and their various shenanigans - of tremendous epicness.
By epicness I mean human drama on a grand scale, History with a big H, that kind of things.

The most remarkable ones I've read so far are Harlot's Ghost, The Company and La Chartreuse de Parme.

>> No.484814

Well, /lit/, you suck.

Big time.

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>> No.484907

John Le Carre?

Frederick Forsyth?

>> No.484910

>>484903

That... ah... pretty much sums it up.

>> No.485417

>>484814

troll harder.

>> No.485422

John Le Carré. I recommend The Little Drummer Girl.

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>>484903
Those aren't in the proper order!

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Something very similar to this (and probably widely pertains to your interests).

>> No.485964

Well, the tremendous epic spy novel is John le Carre's:

Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy
The Honourable Schoolboy
Smiley's People

Though it's kind of the very opposite of History with a big H. It's History with a very small h, which is to say real history, even if none of it is actually exactly true. But these are tremendous novels in every respect. The long conversation between George Smiley and Connie Sachs in Smiley's People is one of the best things I've ever read; it's so terrible and pathetic and desperate, and Smiley is repellent in a way that kind of makes you long for the straightforward hatefulness of Jason Compson. And he's the *hero*.