Friday 26 April 2013

How Good Spy Novels Come To Be

By Cherry Mercer


Being a lover of thrillers, it is always comforting to have handy good spy novels in the bag for when you need to preoccupy yourself momentarily. There is always something riveting about thriller stories that captivates the reader. It plays with your imagination and makes you want to continue turning the page until that most awaited ending.

More often than not, you anticipate the climax but dread for the ending. This is because when the dog eared marks have become too much to handle and the remaining pages make up a thin pile, then you know that it is almost over. That aside, there is no denying that every book is an exploration that is both exciting and fulfilling.

Interesting enough, the cold war must have incited some of the spy novels to surface. Given the amount of drama and suspense involved with the history of nations, they are great materials for stories. The challenge is in transforming them into something refreshing to the senses yet still reminiscent of what forefathers have gone through to win their fights.

Spy novels are supposed to be engrossing because they are intended for suspense. Every scene matters because it leads to the great reveal that could shock the reader o affirm suspicions. With the scope including nations and governments, extensive research is needed to get a good grasp of how government units operate.

Power is quite a strong contended when it comes to make stories about spies. Usually, the deployment of a spy is because of the need to gain relevant information that could topple down the enemy. From that alone, you can tell that there would be a lot of conflicts to deal with.

When making novels, it is good for writers to base their stories on factual accounts because this gives people a sense of familiarity towards the issue at hand. When they are aware of the premise of the story, they can easily read through the pages and understand what is happening amidst the chaos. This could be an advantage because this means that people feel the proximity of the accounts.

However, it is also interesting to learn of the fiction that is weaved into the plot. With this piece shrouded in mystery, readers become hooked because they want to know how the plot twists and turns to their delight or horror. With only a general them running but a completely different path ahead, the suspense is kept all throughout.

It takes a good storyteller to manage the creation of a literary masterpiece. Conspiracy theories are themselves interesting to be hooked on, how much more when they are given life with a plot that takes on a beginning and an ending. Even though some theories continue to baffle people in real life, at least with novels, they get their desired closure and get rid of the what ifs momentarily.

Good spy novels are those that keeps you on the edge from the beginning until the end. Any story could move a reader, but for thrillers, it is important to recognize the element of surprise and suspense as a big factor in the whole equation. Whoever the author is, if you want a little excitement from the routine, carry books with you an immerse into another dimension from time to time.




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