spy story

He has taken them straight from the pages of a German spy story.

As in most spy stories, the details of this one are often incredible.

Some have offered circumstantial evidence to support the spy story.

"The best spy story I have ever read," were his brief but inspiring words.

It was very small, and in the best spy stories wouldn't have been noticed.

"In all the spy stories you read, the spies are just ordinary people."

"I'm not entirely sure that I buy this spy story," he decided.

All of which is acceptable for starters; it must be or so many spy stories would not start that way.

Whereupon the press and Parliament believe the spy stories all the more.

The spy story and the love story go together beautifully.

Asked why the reports persist, he replied, "I guess people really like spy stories."

She had been reduced to using ploys straight out of spy stories.

I was trying to think of a hook, a way to break the back of this spy story.

What went wrong is a spy story full of confusion, compromise and bureaucratic conflict.

I cannot conceive of a spy story set on this beautiful island, can you?"

Spy stories are in, especially those on whose outcome the fate of the world hinges.

Billy likes to read spy stories, and he gets ideas."

Mr. Wu's small spy story began long before the war on terrorism.

In this crackling spy story, a woman finds that her mother isn't what she seems.

You've got to have it in a spy story, but it really doesn't matter.

He had been thinking of spy stories, and whodunnits.

"I wanted to try to rescue spy stories from the idea of one man up against a baddie," she explained.

"It is a bit difficult to characterize my books because I don't write spy stories anymore," he said.

Could run the water in there, sir, like they do in the spy stories."

Venona's spy stories are now seen by much of the public as the key to America's cold war experience itself.