Joseph Hone

Joseph Hone

Joseph Hone (born 1937) is a writer of the Spy Novel. His most famous novels featured a character called Marlow. The first of the series was "The Private Sector" (1971), set in the Six Day War. Marlow's story continues in "The Sixth Directorate" (1977), "The Valley of the Fox" (1982) and "The Oxford Gambit". Today, Hone's novels are out of print. During his heyday, in the 1970s, however, he was favourably compared with writers such as Len Deighton, Eric Ambler and John Le Carre. Whilst some spy novels, such as those of Le Carre are often set mainly inside the offices of the spy department, and attract praise for the depth of their characterization and plotting, others (such as the James Bond series) are set in the field, and provide explosive action. The stories of Joseph Hone, by contrast, have a foot in both these camps, and he has become renowned amongst aficionados of the spy genre for both the quality of his writing, and the excitement of his plots.fact|date=August 2008

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