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Radio 4,4 mins

Stranger than fiction: How thriller writers keep up

The World Tonight

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The author Mike Ripley on how spy novels compete with the probability-defying facts of real life - and the ways in which they've changed over the years. (Image: Len Deighton Credit: Getty Images)

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