[Rummyfan]

Deighton was a little more cerebral than Fleming I think. Try some of his other works.

[Angelino97]

Did you, or anyone here, read any of the Charles McCarry's spy thrillers?

I read two of them.

* The Secret Lovers, a tale that begins with the Spanish Civil War.

* The Tears of Autumn, which speculates that the Vietnamese Diem family killed JFK, in revenge for Kennedy's support of the coup that overthrew Diem.