Ten Cape Girardeau businesses will participate in the Taste of Cape restaurant hop April 21 to benefit Southeast Missouri State University's department of theatre and dance.
Eric Amblerâs 1938 novel Epitaph for a Spy is a perfect example of his distinctive approach to spy fiction. Amblerâs heroes were not professional spies but ordinary people caught up in the dangerous web of espionage. They do not thereby metamorphose into brave and noble heroes.
US spy novelists began to achieve a measure of parity in a genre dominated by British writers. During the war E. Howard Hunt wrote his first spy novel, East of Farewell (1943). In 1949 he joined the recently created CIA, and continued to write spy fiction for many years.