Books by Noel Behn
The Kremlin Letter
by Noel Behn
On the surface, it’s one of those men-with-a-mission things, like The Guns of Navarone. But when you read it, you feel like you’re reading Chekhov. It’s an incredibly dense, incredibly dark, incredibly closely described novel, and it’s only really nominally about espionage. What it’s really about is extraordinarily brutalist and cynical men, betraying each other. It’s the only spy thriller that I’ve read that I really thought, ‘Oh God, that is just a bit too unpleasant.’
Interviews where books by Noel Behn were recommended
The Best Forgotten Cold War Thrillers, recommended by Jeremy Duns
Author Jeremy Duns says Maksim Isaev was a kind of Soviet James Bond and when they rerun the old black and white TV shows the Russian crime rate drops because everyone is indoors watching them
