Technothriller Spy

myth:technothriller_spy

After the Cold War the genre branched: Clancy's technothrillers, thick with the detail of weapons and procedure; Ludlum's amnesiac Bourne, the agent hunted by his own masters; Forsyth's Jackal, the assassin tracked step by procedural step. Action and machinery, where le Carre had given doubt. — genre history