Agent Palmer

Antony Johnston, author of The Coldest City (source material for Atomic Blonde) as well as many other endeavors over various mediums is quite the creative. I recently finished reading both The Coldest City and The Coldest Winter, but that wasn’t enough, so I reached out to the man behind the words with eight questions to better understand the man behind the pen.

It’s not often that a prequel can outshine the original, but such is the case with The Coldest Winter, where Antony Johnston weaves a tale even more gripping than the one he told in The Coldest City. Also set in Berlin, yet taking place eight years prior to the events of City, The Coldest Winter finds us in the midst of the Cold War with a more complex and thrilling spy noir story. The back cover reads; “After a string…

Have you seen the trailer for Atomic Blonde starring Charlize Theron? Looks good right? It does, but I wanted to take a dive into the source material, because I’m that guy. So I picked up a copy of “The Coldest City,” a graphic novel, by Antony Johnston, and without spoilers, here’s my review.

Is this a short story that reads like a novel or a novel that reads like a short story? Either way it’s difficult to pin down exactly why An Expensive Place to Die is a quick and fun read except to say that it was written by Len Deighton, and if you like his stuff, you like his stuff.

The fourth and final novel in the unnamed spy series by Len Deighton, The Billion Dollar Brain, is brilliant.