Five works on espionage

Charles Cumming's novels include A Spy By Nature, The Spanish Game, Typhoon, and The Trinity Six.He told Caroline Flyn at FiveBooks about five favorite works on espionage, including:A Coffin for Dimitrios by Eric AmblerEric Ambler is the grandfather of the serious spy novel.By which you mean no martinis, no gadgets?Exactly. Broadly speaking, there are two schools of spy novel: the Ian Fleming,