'He Gave Me Information About Spying That Frightened The Life Out of Me!' (and inspired The New Spy)
Mar 31, 2026
Guest host Matthew Hurst sits down with author Michael Dylan to explore his debut spy thriller The New Spy. Dylan shares his unconventional journey from global advertising creative to full-time novelist, revealing how real-world research, including chilling conversations with a mysterious source known only as...
Mar 25, 2026
We share the sad news that renowned spy novelist Len
Deighton has passed away at 97. We pay tribute to his incredible
work, discussing why he was considered the greatest spy novelist
and his impact on cold war espionage. His contributions to the spy
thriller genre remembered.
Len Deighton didn’t just write spy...
Mar 17, 2026
What happens when a legendary screenwriter turns decades of espionage ideas into an epic literary spy saga? On this episode of the Spybrary podcast, Michael Frost Beckner joins Bruce Dravis to unpack Kaleidoscope, the Spy Game universe, CIA family legacies, his influences, moral ambiguity, and the hidden machinery of...
Mar 4, 2026
Tim Shipman sits down with thriller author James Wolff who worked as a British intelligence officer for over ten years. They unpack his latest spy novel Spies and Other Gods.
Wolff shares how a single line in a UK parliamentary oversight report (the Intelligence and Security Committee) sparked the novel’s core...