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The Dragon Spy: The Soundtrack
I typically have two playlists of music for every novel I write. One is a collection of music without lyrics (mostly trailer music or film scores). The other playlist pulls on music with lyrics, and that’s my brainstorming music. For a Cold War spy novel set in 1983, you might expect this to only have music from that time period, and I initially did start with a playlist like that. As I got into the project, though, that quickly changed. Here are what I think of as the top nines songs for a soundtrack to…