# 1970s Cold War fiction **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [December 14, 2014, 2:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/1970s-cold-war-fiction/707175 "2014-12-14T02:23:57Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Weedy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/weedy/32/301_2.png) [@Weedy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Weedy)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2014, 11:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/1970s-cold-war-fiction/707175/21 "2014-12-16T23:15:20Z")
> [@psychonaut](#): > > How is _Spy vs. Spy_ about, or linked to, the Cold War? The two spies were completely generic. The cloak and dagger stuff they were doing could have gone on between any two rival countries, regardless of their ideologies. Maybe you were thinking of Prohias’s earlier comic, _Tovarich_, though that was more a satire of Soviet Union in general than its icy relations with the West in particular. Yeah, _Spy vs. Spy_ is not necessarily about the Cold War specifically, but you could interpret it as thematically related. I included it to let people know that it would be ok to suggest something a bit different. I’m not necessarily only looking for Len Deighton type stories (though they are good suggestions in their own right). ---
**Author:** ![cormac262](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f14d63/32.png) [@cormac262](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cormac262)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2014, 12:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/1970s-cold-war-fiction/707175/22 "2014-12-17T00:17:33Z")
> [@si\_blakely](#): > > _The Bourne Identity_ (Robert Ludlum) was published in 1980, but I think fits the bill of a 70s Cold War thriller. Some of his other novels fit the category, too, I think. Ludlum’s “The Matarese Circle” (1979) definitely fits as a cold war story. ---
**Author:** ![Tom\_Tildrum](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e95f7d/32.png) [@Tom\_Tildrum](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tom_Tildrum)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2014, 4:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/1970s-cold-war-fiction/707175/23 "2014-12-17T04:40:38Z")
There may have been 10,000 spy novels of that era that involved the Cold War. ---
**Author:** ![MarcusF](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/67e7ee/32.png) [@MarcusF](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MarcusF)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2014, 10:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/1970s-cold-war-fiction/707175/24 "2014-12-17T10:51:52Z")
> [@terentii](#): > > Damn those Warsaw Packs! They’re worse than Hell’s Angels! :mad: :smack: Ooops! (Note to Self: New Year’s resolution, learn to read BEFORE hitting submit!) ---
**Author:** ![handsomeharry](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e9c0ed/32.png) [@handsomeharry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/handsomeharry)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2014, 2:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/1970s-cold-war-fiction/707175/25 "2014-12-17T14:48:57Z")
_The Missiles of October_. ---
**Author:** ![Quartz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/quartz/32/267_2.png) [@Quartz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quartz)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2014, 3:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/1970s-cold-war-fiction/707175/26 "2014-12-17T15:30:46Z")
Since when was _Day of the Jackal_ about the Cold War? ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2014, 4:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/1970s-cold-war-fiction/707175/27 "2014-12-17T16:06:44Z")
> [@Quartz](#): > > Since when was _Day of the Jackal_ about the Cold War? Right- it was about right-wing Frenchmen attempting to kill Charles DeGaulle, for what they considered his traitorous abandonment of Algeria. ---
**Author:** ![Weedy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/weedy/32/301_2.png) [@Weedy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Weedy)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2014, 8:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/1970s-cold-war-fiction/707175/28 "2014-12-17T20:45:42Z")
> [@astorian](#): > > Right- it was about right-wing Frenchmen attempting to kill Charles DeGaulle, for what they considered his traitorous abandonment of Algeria. Ok, scratch that one. ---
**Author:** ![handsomeharry](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e9c0ed/32.png) [@handsomeharry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/handsomeharry)\ **Post date:** [December 25, 2014, 12:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/1970s-cold-war-fiction/707175/29 "2014-12-25T00:09:03Z")
> [@handsomeharry](#): > > _The Missiles of October_. Ooops, screwed the pooch. This thread was about _fiction_. :smack: ---
**Author:** ![Damfino](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/f9ae1b/32.png) [@Damfino](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Damfino)\ **Post date:** [December 25, 2014, 9:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/1970s-cold-war-fiction/707175/30 "2014-12-25T21:47:50Z")
Clive Egleton’s trilogy \* The October Plot, A Piece of Resistance , The Judas Mandate \* dealt with a plot by the Soviets to take over Britain politically… Constantine Fitzgibbons ’ \* When the kissing had to stop \* has a similar theme, political take over of the UK. John Gardner’s \* Golgotha\* deals with secret atomic missiles based in the UK to counter the Russian invasion [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/1970s-cold-war-fiction/707175.md?page=1)