![]() Gayle Lynds’ Masquerade (1996) was the first spy novel written by a woman to become a bestseller, helping to open the ‘bro’ genre to other female writers. ![]() I think more women are going to join the genre now.”ĥ Top Novels Written by ex-Spies Francine Mathews, Karen Cleveland, Stella Rimington, Alma Katsu & Alex Finley “Series like The Americans, Tehran, and Homeland brought interesting, flawed women spies to the forefront and treated them as equals to men in virtually every way… Watching these series felt like someone was opening a door and waving me in. “I might never have written a spy novel were it not for television,” Glass told SPYSCAPE. ![]() In Ian Fleming’s first 007 novel, Casino Royale (1953), he writes, “Miss Moneypenny would have been desirable but for her eyes, which were cool and direct and quizzical.” “Translation: She would have been pretty, but she was smart,” said Ava Glass, the Texas-born author of Alias Emma, one of a new generation of writers creating female protagonists who can tough it out in a world of Russian assassins or duplicitous co-workers. The glory days of MI6’s old guard swapping state secrets over whiskey at Boodle’s gentlemen’s club may be a fading memory but the ‘old boys’ network has always found a warm home in espionage fiction. 5 Hot Female Spy Writers Lauren Wilkinson, Charlotte Philby, Ava Glass, Rosalie Knecht & Natasha Walter
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