I’ve became familiar with books of Bill Granger on secret agent Devereaux through film The November Man with Pierce Brosnan which adapted a seventh There Are No Spies of thirteen paper compositions. A movie wasn’t well with screenplay and it was memorable for beautiful and astonishing filming in Montenegro inspired me to visit this state. Difference with Granger’s novel was obvious by that it was written in 1986 while flick’s sets in contemporary times and shows respective attributes such mobile phones. I was attracted to series by love to espionage and First Cold War together. A first book The November Man was published in 1979.
I didn’t sit long in reading of it. An author didn’t learn subject. A second person in fiction American agency Section R says extraneous information in between of true details (and a lead hero doesn’t like all this secrecy which expresses only in his this superior.) and names the United States as Samuel and other reference is “Brit Intell” for evading of eavesdropping though he doesn’t care to speak information assignment in a bar. It would even bad for comedy. Anyway, a writer is serious. He tries to be a great one by describing drinking of personages. The superior of Devereaux takes one sip of whiskey “dutifully” and the next take was as “a man just trying to get through a drink” while a protagonist “felt tired” from a first using of his beverage and “the cold vodka was numbing his tongue pleasantly” was in following. Granger’s writing was difficult in reading in beginning but it became readable very soon in pages which I saw. A point of quitting was moving a little forward and reading (what was known to me before but I forgot.) that Section R was created because president John Kennedy didn’t like a big presence of CIA. He could influence on reducing of it if that would be so. The writer was supposed to imagine an elaborated reason.
I was suspicious in goodness of The November Man months before by giving eye to introduction of 1990’s edition of a book. The writer tells, he never intended to write on spies. His first published novel was written due to no one of publishers wanted to accept his written police composition Public Murders (he will succeed in 1980.). Bill Granger met with a literature agent Henry Morrison who promoted many writers as Robert Ludlum was one of them. He was another one who didn’t profit in Public Murders but ask on possibility of espionage novel and Granger lied on written fifty pages of such writing. An agent asked to describe a storyline and his interlocutor recalled his journalist work in Belfast and making stories about IRA’s terrorist acts. He convinced Morrison and wrote The November Man after that.