Joseph Hone

Joseph Marlow Hone (25 February 1937 – 15 August 2016) was a British writer of the spy novel. His most famous novels featured a British spy called Peter Marlow. The first of the series was ''The Private Sector'' (1971), set in the Six-Day War. Marlow's story continues in ''The Sixth Directorate'' (1975), ''The Flowers of the Forest'' (a.k.a. ''The Oxford Gambit'') (1980), and ''The Valley of the Fox'' (1982). During his heyday, in the 1970s, Hone was favourably compared with writers such as Len Deighton, Eric Ambler and John le Carré. Provided by Wikipedia

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