Books by David McCloskey
“As David makes clear in the author’s note, Seventh Floor is very much a hat tip to le Carré’s Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy. It’s not a rip-off of Tinker Tailor—it’s an American story, but it also revolves around a mole hunt…‘The seventh floor’ of the title is where the bosses of the CIA sit in Langley, Virginia.” Read more...
“Moscow X starts slowly and then accelerates into a fast-paced thriller. We have the return of Artemis Proctor, who was in Damascus Station. The book opens in a quite dramatic fashion, where she finds herself in a very compromised position. I won’t ruin it for readers, but she’s immediately defrocked and sent back but she wants to get back in the game. They throw her this project, which is an operation of mind games and trickery. It all revolves around Russian money and oligarchs and the West (or the CIA, in this case) trying to come up with a scheme that will have them all stabbing each other in the back and going after each other. So, a very carefully constructed plot by McCloskey.” Read more...
Damascus Station
by David McCloskey
Damascus Station by former CIA agent David McCloskey has been out for a while in the US (where fans are waiting for the next instalment, Moscow X: A Novel, out in October), but for those of us in the UK it's a new arrival that's being very warmly received by spy thriller fans.
Interviews where books by David McCloskey were recommended
The Best Spy Thrillers of 2023, recommended by Shane Whaley
2023 was a fabulous year for spy thrillers, with some fans saying there hasn’t been a year like it since the 1970s, says Shane Whaley, host of the Spybrary podcast. He picks out five of his favourites from the year, all works of fiction that nonetheless give a sense of what it’s like to work as a spy.
The Best Spy Novels of 2024, recommended by Shane Whaley
From a novel about the murder of Congolese leader Patrice Lumumba to the latest John le Carré novel, from a Mossad agent in London to the hunt for a traitor at CIA HQ in Virginia, Shane Whaley, host of Spybrary—the podcast for lovers of spy books—talks us through his best spy novels of 2024.
