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1 online resource (208 pages) |
Physical Medium |
polychrome |
Description |
text file |
Contents |
Prologue -- Neil Burnside strides into view -- The prize he left behind -- Ian Mackintosh: the secretive Scot -- Spy fiction with a bite -- The spy genre: tearing up the moral landscape -- On the set of The sandbaggers -- Without a trace -- To Malta and beyond -- What happened to Ian Makintosh? |
Summary |
No spy drama has ever matched The Sandbaggers, which featured a tiny, covert intelligence unit based in London during the Cold War. The show that the New York Times called the "best spy series in television history" was the vision of Ian MacKintosh, who was among the first writers to present espionage realistically--as a sordid series of political struggles, double crosses, and personality clashes. The Life and Mysterious Death of Ian MacKintosh provides a behind-the-scenes look at the show that forever changed the spy genre. Readers will also gain insight into the enigmatic and accomplished Mac. |
Local Note |
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Subject |
Sandbaggers (Television program)
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Sandbaggers (Television program) |
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Mackintosh, Ian -- Criticism and interpretation.
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Mackintosh, Ian. |
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Criticism and interpretation. |
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Spy television programs -- Great Britain -- History and criticism.
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Spy television programs. |
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Great Britain. |
Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Other Form: |
Print version: Folsom, Robert G. Life and Mysterious Death of Ian MacKintosh : The Inside Story of The Sandbaggers and Television's Top Spy. Dulles, : Potomac Books Inc., ©2012 9781612341880 |
ISBN |
9781612341903 (electronic book) |
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161234190X (electronic book) |
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