Spies and Holy Wars: The Middle East in 20th-Century Crime Fiction

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Illuminating a powerful intersection between popular culture and global politics, Spies and Holy Wars draws on a sampling of more than eight hundred British. From World War I to the twenty-first century, this is a watershed examination of British and American thrillers whose villains are jihadists rather than Cold War.

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