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The last ten major changes to the site.
- 02/28/2025 - Luckily for fans of good solid writing and terrific characters, author Nick Thacker is a pretty prolific penman. Another of his creations, the two-book series about CIA analyst takes its well earned place in this compendium today.
- 02/27/2025 - We are popping back in time 63 years to 1962 for today's entrant into the compendium. This two-book series was published in Australia by Horwitz Publication, the same company that gave us the highly enjoyable Mark Hood series. I mention Hood because those tales were 'written' by James Dark. The two adventures about joining the collection today were also written by James Dark. That name, obviously, was a house-name.
- 02/26/2025 - I welcome to the compendium today a three-adventure spy-adjacent series about a former police detective who is pulled into international events, thus qualifying him for membership in this collection. Author Nick Thacker gave us this trio of really fun adventures about .
- 02/25/2025 - From 10 years ago and my neighbor to the North (my being the States) comes a series of operatives risking their lives in highly dangerous missions during WWII. The group was known as and through streaming viewers can relive these tales - or as in my case, watch them for the first time.
- 02/24/2025 - A spin-off from the highly enjoyable Harvey Bennett series by Nick Thacker enters the compendium today. As I mention in My Comments, " is quite a bit different from Bennett and he has a whole lot different set of nasty things heading his way".
- 02/23/2025 - We are heading to the ?European? country of Escondida for a 10-book spy series about a group of spies working on behalf of the monarch. They do not apparently have a name for themselves but the publicist of the books has named them the . These books, written by Lottie Morgan, consist of two mini-series of adventures and are meant for those who want a little espionage thrown in with their romance.
- 02/22/2025 - It is Saturday and I often add to the compendium something spy-fi designed for young readers. Today I add one for really young readers. Well, young listeners, actually. As in 3-4 year old. The hero is who is a ... you guessed it ... llama. There are two very fast reads about him by Angela Woolfe. As I said in My Comments, "I loved the rhyming that the author did and the gadgets and all that. A terrific way to introduce the young tykes into the world of action espionage adventures, and to teach them the joy of reading."
- 02/21/2025 - I was a huge fan of the Jason Bourne series, for a while at least. The first book by Ludlum was fantastic. The movies with Matt Damon were darned good, especially the first one. After a while, I had some issues but the new books are promising. I mention all this as an intro to today's entrant, , the television show that was based on the secret program Bourne was involved with. I loved the concept, as creepy as it was. I did not love the television series.
- 02/20/2025 - As I mention in My Comments for today's entrant, "I am a big fan of urban fantasy adventures especially when they involve witches and magic." When those kind of stories merge with spy fiction, it can be ... interesting. That is the case with T. R. Cameron's .
- 02/19/2025 - Let's welcome to the compendium today a diplomat, a pretty high ranking member of the Diplomacy Corps. It is not often we get someone of that rank to join us but not only is he a high muckity-muck, he is also a pretty interesting fellow, as is his intrepid wife. And even better, the author of these two recent adventures, Tom Fletcher, is darned good at his work. is someone you should put on your list of characters to read. I rate them pretty high.
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SPY FICTION!
Say the word SPY to most people and they will respond with James Bond,
with good reason as he is the best known of all fictional spies. With 20+ blockbuster movies over the last 40+ years,
along with the standard movie hype, virtually the entire world knows about 007 and his License To Kill.
Of course, James Bond is by no means the only spy in the world of fiction, just the best known. Who are the rest?
Who has his or her own license to kill, thrill, or chill. How do these agents stack up against each other? Who would
you want beside you in a car chase, in a knife fight, in a dark alley, or beneath the covers?
This site is dedicated to the many, many men and women who, at least in fiction, have defended our freedoms against all forms of enemies, foreign and domestic. Well, granted a few of them were just in it for the money and many were only after the excitement, and sex played a huge role in the motivation of more than a few. But still, their actions helped not only preserve our way of life (on paper) but also brought us, the readers, many hours of escapism and vicarious pleasure.
So, who are these people that I have slaved so diligently to present to you? They are the men and women of spy-fi about whom there is a series. Single-book characters need not apply. There has to be at least two books. Two's the minimum but the more the merrier.
Moreover, I have confined membership to the English language. If it wasn't put into English so I can read it, I haven't worried about it.
Each spy has his or her own page. Click on the "Characters" button to go to a listing page. Click on the letter the
character's last name starts with (or a more common moniker like "Death Merchant" if appropriate). That will take one
step further into the labrynth. Finally, select the character's name from the list and, voila!
Have fun!!