Spy novels embrace clichés — the double agent, the bomb-rigged briefcase — and »Assassin of Secrets,« published last fall, made a virtue of this tendency, piling one trope onto another to create a story that rang with wry knowingness.
Spy novels embrace clichés — the double agent, the bomb-rigged briefcase — and »Assassin of Secrets,« published last fall, made a virtue of this tendency, piling one trope onto another to create a story that rang with wry knowingness.