{"id":98138,"date":"2026-07-23T16:47:55","date_gmt":"2026-07-23T16:47:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/im-a-bestselling-spy-writer-these-are-my-top-eight-espionage-authors-for-summer-reading\/"},"modified":"2026-07-23T16:47:55","modified_gmt":"2026-07-23T16:47:55","slug":"im-a-bestselling-spy-writer-these-are-my-top-eight-espionage-authors-for-summer-reading","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/im-a-bestselling-spy-writer-these-are-my-top-eight-espionage-authors-for-summer-reading\/","title":{"rendered":"I&#8217;m a bestselling spy writer \u2013 these are my top eight espionage authors for summer reading"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.express.co.uk\/entertainment\/books\/2231542\/spy-writer-david-goodman-top-eight\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.images.express.co.uk\/img\/dynamic\/39\/590x\/2231542_1.jpg\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Ahead of the Theakston Old Peculier Crime Writing Festival this weekend, David Goodman picks his top eight espionage authors &#8211; and Ian Fleming&#8217;s not among them<br \/>\n<a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.express.co.uk\/entertainment\/books\/2231542\/spy-writer-david-goodman-top-eight\">Daily Express :: Books Feed<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ahead of the Theakston Old Peculier Crime Writing Festival this weekend, David Goodman picks his top eight espionage authors &#8211; and Ian Fleming&#8217;s not among them Daily Express :: Books Feed<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":98139,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1023],"tags":[18808,4616,1618,19012,2086,4684,355,13059],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98138"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=98138"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98138\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/98139"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=98138"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=98138"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=98138"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}