WONDERLAND: THE SECRET WORLD OF SPYMASTERS & AND SPIES

They have shaped what has become a hugely popular genre, weaving intricate
plots, clandestine operations and intense suspense into their novels.

Successful film and television franchises have been built around spies, while spy novels sell in great numbers. Lying behind recurring plots based on the successful negotiation of risk and betrayal is an altogether bleaker world, based on violence and incessant surveillance by state actors to benefit state activities.

Wonderland explores the interlocking world of public and private, state and individual and combines analysis of the biographies of the writers and their work, together with an examination of the geopolitical settings in which they operate.

A series follow up to Wonderland: Lewis Carroll to JRR Tolkien, Wonderland: Gothic & Wonderland: Science Fiction in an Atomic Age.