can anyone suggest some authors for spy thriller (mi5) type?

[jojo]

books, something along the lines of the tv show Spooks.

[Patti R]

Ian Fleming
James Patterson
Robert Ludlum
Tom Clancy

[No, the other North!]

'Kim', by Rudyard Kipling. Nothing over-stated but contains everything: brush contact, humint handling, observation, assasination, enlisting support, espionage.

'Seven Pillars of Wisdom' by T.E. Lawrence, for when the politics are beginning to fail and more direct action is needed. The man was a ruthless, single-minded hero of the old school, but not in the shoot-em-up style. Skip the bit about pretty camels though.

[Edelweiss Tactical]

The Deceiver by Frederick Forsyth, tells the Story of Sam McCready who was a Sneaky Beaky with Six. The book is really four stories in one, which plays out as a review board hearing that examines four operations he headed up. Quite a good read, I had one in my daysack for 6 months and think I read it four times.

hers a link to the Amazon location Amazon.co.uk: The Deceiver: Books: Frederick...

[kennyjulie1]

John le Carre, did a lost of cold war stuff

[covert munkey]

Ed Husain - The islamist

'Why i joined radical islam in Britain, what i saw and why i left'

Isalmic fundamentalist recruited by AQ then handled by Mi5.

good book

CM