Comments on: Harry Palmer Files — 005 — The background of the Angry Young Spy http://www.mister8.com/harry-palmer-files-%e2%80%94-005-%e2%80%94-the-angry-young-spy/ A web comic and blog about secret agents Tue, 17 Jan 2012 14:34:11 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Permission to Kill http://www.mister8.com/harry-palmer-files-%e2%80%94-005-%e2%80%94-the-angry-young-spy/comment-page-1/#comment-1925 Permission to Kill Thu, 24 Jun 2010 22:30:19 +0000 http://www.mister8.com/?p=1020#comment-1925 [...] file 002, click here. To open file 003, click here. To open file 004, click here. To open file 005, click here. To open file 006, click here. To open file 007, click here. To open file 008, click here. To open [...] [...] file 002, click here. To open file 003, click here. To open file 004, click here. To open file 005, click here. To open file 006, click here. To open file 007, click here. To open file 008, click here. To open [...]

]]> By: A.S. http://www.mister8.com/harry-palmer-files-%e2%80%94-005-%e2%80%94-the-angry-young-spy/comment-page-1/#comment-704 A.S. Thu, 09 Jul 2009 08:53:46 +0000 http://www.mister8.com/?p=1020#comment-704 I am planning to make a post later about Kingsley Amis, and his opinion of Deighton as expressed in the James Bond Dossier. Apparently, he came around later, as he was a big supporter of Bomber. I did not know that about Braine, however. I'll have to check out those novels! Thanks for taking the time to follow my series, even though I know you have more important things to accomplish! I am planning to make a post later about Kingsley Amis, and his opinion of Deighton as expressed in the James Bond Dossier. Apparently, he came around later, as he was a big supporter of Bomber.

I did not know that about Braine, however. I’ll have to check out those novels!

Thanks for taking the time to follow my series, even though I know you have more important things to accomplish!

]]> By: Jeremy Duns http://www.mister8.com/harry-palmer-files-%e2%80%94-005-%e2%80%94-the-angry-young-spy/comment-page-1/#comment-700 Jeremy Duns Tue, 07 Jul 2009 22:50:27 +0000 http://www.mister8.com/?p=1020#comment-700 Fascinating stuff, Mister8 - a lot of it news to me! I love the thought that IPCRESS was a combination of Saltzman's work on Look Back In Anger and Saturday Night & Sunday Morning and the Bond ethos. And of course there's another Angry Young Man connection there, in that AYM Kingsley Amis went on to write a Bond novel in the Sixties. Another Angry Young Man was John Braine, who wrote Room At The Top, filmed in 1959. In the 70s, Braine wrote two spy novels, The Pious Agent and Finger of Fire, that I've always thought were influenced by Deighton, closing a circle. Both are excellent (and also rather more exciting than Amis' Colonel Sun), featuring a half-Irish Roman Catholic MI6 agent. Highly recommended. I love Deighton's early spy novels: I think they're very clever, stylish and beautifully-written, and they have a voice I never tire of. They're often laugh-out loud funny, but also have some serious - and yes, angry - points to make about society. Great that you're shining a light on them. Fascinating stuff, Mister8 – a lot of it news to me! I love the thought that IPCRESS was a combination of Saltzman’s work on Look Back In Anger and Saturday Night & Sunday Morning and the Bond ethos. And of course there’s another Angry Young Man connection there, in that AYM Kingsley Amis went on to write a Bond novel in the Sixties. Another Angry Young Man was John Braine, who wrote Room At The Top, filmed in 1959. In the 70s, Braine wrote two spy novels, The Pious Agent and Finger of Fire, that I’ve always thought were influenced by Deighton, closing a circle. Both are excellent (and also rather more exciting than Amis’ Colonel Sun), featuring a half-Irish Roman Catholic MI6 agent. Highly recommended.

I love Deighton’s early spy novels: I think they’re very clever, stylish and beautifully-written, and they have a voice I never tire of. They’re often laugh-out loud funny, but also have some serious – and yes, angry – points to make about society. Great that you’re shining a light on them.

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