Eric Ambler, from A coffin for Dimitrios Anthony Burgess, from Tremor of intent Joseph Conrad, from Under western eyes Maxim Gorky, from The spy Graham Greene, from The quiet American John Le Carré, from The honourable schoolboy Compton Mackenzie, from Water on the brain W. Somerset Maugham, from Ashenden Charles McCarry, from The tears of autumn Baroness Emmuska Orczy, from The scarlet pimpernel John Steinbeck, from The moon is down Rebecca West, from The birds fall down
