Comments on: Fiction Favorites of the Espionage Pros https://writersinthestormblog.com/2020/09/fiction-favorites-of-the-espionage-pros/ A Blog On Writing Sun, 22 Dec 2024 04:00:23 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 By: 7 Questions for an Espionage Pro | Writers In The Storm https://writersinthestormblog.com/2020/09/fiction-favorites-of-the-espionage-pros/#comment-147281 Fri, 11 Dec 2020 08:04:06 +0000 https://writersinthestormblog.com/?p=40924#comment-147281 […] my last article, Fiction Favorites of the Espionage Pros, inspired by questions during our recent RWA online workshop, we shared our espionage movie and TV […]

]]> By: Sarah Blake https://writersinthestormblog.com/2020/09/fiction-favorites-of-the-espionage-pros/#comment-146590 Tue, 22 Sep 2020 11:41:23 +0000 https://writersinthestormblog.com/?p=40924#comment-146590 This is a great resource, so glad I stumbled on it. I'm curious as to why you think the least realistic shows are those depicting CIA work here in the States, as the consensus seems to suggest. Is it because the boundaries are more fungible when on home turf?

]]> By: Piper Bayard https://writersinthestormblog.com/2020/09/fiction-favorites-of-the-espionage-pros/#comment-146497 Sun, 13 Sep 2020 01:53:08 +0000 https://writersinthestormblog.com/?p=40924#comment-146497 In reply to Lisa Ciarfella.

Those two are a real piece of work.

]]> By: Piper Bayard https://writersinthestormblog.com/2020/09/fiction-favorites-of-the-espionage-pros/#comment-146496 Sun, 13 Sep 2020 01:52:10 +0000 https://writersinthestormblog.com/?p=40924#comment-146496 In reply to jrfinley.

LOL. I hear you. My original major as an undergrad was psychology--right up until I went inside all those doors. You have my sincere admiration.

]]> By: Piper Bayard https://writersinthestormblog.com/2020/09/fiction-favorites-of-the-espionage-pros/#comment-146495 Sun, 13 Sep 2020 01:50:58 +0000 https://writersinthestormblog.com/?p=40924#comment-146495 In reply to Jenny Hansen.

It's one of my favorites. 🙂

]]> By: Piper Bayard https://writersinthestormblog.com/2020/09/fiction-favorites-of-the-espionage-pros/#comment-146494 Sun, 13 Sep 2020 01:50:19 +0000 https://writersinthestormblog.com/?p=40924#comment-146494 In reply to dholcomb1.

They can do that, for sure. 🙂

]]> By: Lisa Ciarfella https://writersinthestormblog.com/2020/09/fiction-favorites-of-the-espionage-pros/#comment-146493 Sat, 12 Sep 2020 23:37:43 +0000 https://writersinthestormblog.com/?p=40924#comment-146493 The Falcon and the snowman was a crazy good film! Sean Penn was intense as a choir boy turned drug dealer, turned spy losing his mind! And the real mind twist is that the story really happened!
You can't make that stuff up!
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]]> By: jrfinley https://writersinthestormblog.com/2020/09/fiction-favorites-of-the-espionage-pros/#comment-146492 Sat, 12 Sep 2020 23:30:05 +0000 https://writersinthestormblog.com/?p=40924#comment-146492 Thanks, I'm going to print this one out and have it handy the next time I'm browsing through Netflix, Hulu, and Vudu.
Re Get Smart: Didn't see the film, but I'm old enough to remember the original TV series, particularly the opening sequence where he goes through locked entrance after locked entrance. I got a laugh out of that memory many times when I was working in a prison psychiatric hospital; the inmates called our facility the prison inside the prison. Between the parking lot and my office, I had to go through nine separate doors or gates where someone had to buzz me through. It seemed a bit much, even for some of the guys we worked with (we had no facility there for women, so it was all guys.) It meant a 75-yard trip took anywhere from ten to fifteen minutes.

]]> By: Jenny Hansen https://writersinthestormblog.com/2020/09/fiction-favorites-of-the-espionage-pros/#comment-146491 Sat, 12 Sep 2020 15:07:21 +0000 https://writersinthestormblog.com/?p=40924#comment-146491 You know I barely watch TV, but I'll make an exception for some of these! And it's nice to hear that something in Get Smart was accurate. I loved that show!

]]> By: dholcomb1 https://writersinthestormblog.com/2020/09/fiction-favorites-of-the-espionage-pros/#comment-146489 Sat, 12 Sep 2020 03:12:48 +0000 https://writersinthestormblog.com/?p=40924#comment-146489 I guess I don't watch a lot of spy TV or movies. I don't read them a lot because they tend to interfere with sleep.

denise

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