• The Best Post-Soviet Spy Thrillers - Kolymsky Heights by Lionel Davidson
  • The Best Post-Soviet Spy Thrillers - Remembrance Day by Henry Porter
  • The Best Post-Soviet Spy Thrillers - Red Sparrow by Jason Matthews
  • The Best Post-Soviet Spy Thrillers - Slow Horses by Mick Herron
  • The Best Post-Soviet Spy Thrillers - To the Lions by Holly Watt

The Best Post-Soviet Spy Thrillers, recommended by Charles Cumming

With the end of the Soviet Union, many thought the spy novel was dead. Within a decade, it was back, with old antagonists back in different guises and a new raft of international flashpoints to keep both fictional and real-life spies busy. Here, British spy novelist Charles Cumming, author of more than ten books, recommends five key post-Soviet spy thrillers and explains how the genre has evolved since the fall of the Berlin Wall.