S1E2:Alistair Maclean to John le Carré

7 Apr 202645 minTV-PG

World War II and the Cold War had a massive impact on espionage, both real and fictional. The ideological battle between the West and the Soviet Union was revealed in Graham Greene's The Third Man. Frederick Forsyth's novels, such as The Day of the Jackal, offered a grounded view of espionage, while John le Carré's books challenged the glamorization of spies seen in earlier works.