The first insider fiction emerged after World War 1 as the thinly disguised reminiscences of former British intelligence officers such as W. Somerset Maugham, Alexander Wilson, and Compton Mackenzie. The tradition continued during World War II with Helen MacInnes and Manning Coles.
The first insider fictio.n emerged after World War 1 as the thinly dis.guised reminiscences of former British intelligence officers such as W Somerset Maugham, Alexander Wilson, and Compton Mackenzie The tradition continued during World War II with Helen MacInnes and Manning Coles.