May 26, 2026
What happens when Britain fights the Cold War with typewriters, fake pamphlets, covert publishers, and even pretend hippies?
On this episode of Spybrary's Cold War Spy Files, Shane Whaley talks with historian Rory Cormac about his book Fakers: A Top Secret Tale of Phantoms and Forgeries on the...
May 5, 2026
I'm
Shane Whaley — a self-confessed "guile over guns" spy fiction
reader who has always preferred le Carré's slow burn spy novels to
military firefights.
So what happens when a Le Carré fan picks up Jack Carr's Cry Havoc,
a 550-page Vietnam War action thriller written by a former Navy
SEAL?
Welcome to the...