Prof. Oliver Buckton's book Counterfeit Spies Reviewed in WSJ

Professor Oliver Buckton's new book, Counterfeit Spies: How World War II Intelligence Operations Shaped Cold War Spy Fiction, has been reviewed in The Wall Street Journal.

An excerpt of Dominic Green's piece, titled "‘Counterfeit Spies’ Review: Craftier Than Fiction":

In “Counterfeit Spies,” Oliver Buckton shows that confusing fact and fiction is the first task of spies and second nature for novelists. Spy novels are procedurals. They create plausibility as much from their control of bureaucratic detail as from their probing of the human factor. Mr. Buckton, a professor of English at Florida Atlantic University and a skilled archival detective, augments the contexts of the big three (Fleming, Greene, John le Carré) with well-researched reports on the literary spooks Helen MacInnes, Dennis Wheatley and John Bingham. [ . . . ]

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