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The Life and Mysterious Death of Ian Mackintosh: The Inside Story of the Sandbaggers and Televi...
ISBN: 9781612341880 | 1612341888
Format: HardcoverPublisher: Potomac Books Inc
Pub. Date: 6/30/2012
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No spy drama has ever matched The Sandbaggers, which featured a tiny, covert intelligence unit based in London during the Cold War. The show that the New York Timescalled the best spy series in television history was the vision of Ian MacKintosh, who was among the first writers to present espionage realistically-as a sordid series of political struggles, double crosses, and personality clashes. The Life and Mysterious Death of Ian MacKintoshprovides a behind-the-scenes look at the show that forever changed the spy genre. Readers will also gain ... MORE
| Abbreviations | p. vii |
| Foreword | p. ix |
| Prologue | p. ix |
| Neil Burnside Strides Into View | p. 1 |
| The Prize He Left Behind | p. 23 |
| Ian MacKintosh: The Secretive Scot | p. 31 |
| Spy Fiction with a Bite | p. 49 |
| The Spy Genre: Tearing Up the Moral Landscape | p. 59 |
| On the Set of The Sandbaggers | p. 73 |
| Without a Trace | p. 93 | ... MORE
| To Malta and Beyond | p. 117 |
| What Happened to Ian MacKintosh? | p. 129 |
| The Formidable Roy Marsden | p. 137 |
| Behind the Episodes | p. 157 |
| MacKintosh's Outline for The Sandbaggers | p. 165 |
| Acknowledgments | p. 177 |
| Novels and Other Works | p. 179 |
| Bibliography | p. 181 |
| Index | p. 185 |
| About the Author | p. 191 |
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