Washington Free Beacon··Sunday, November 15, 2026, 5:00 AM

London Calling: McCloskey's Spy Rises Up the Ranks

Who is the best American spy novelist right now? If you had asked me 10 years ago, or 5 years ago, I wouldn't have been able to give you an answer. There were good ones at work, writers I'd read regularly when a new book appeared—Dan Fesperman, for instance, still very much at work, whose latest I reviewed in summer of 2025—but none (in my judgment, at least) who stood…

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