What's New
The last ten major changes to the site.
- 09/10/2025 - Joining the compendium today is a three-adventure series by Sam Graveney. Penned just a couple of years ago, they take place in the 1953-1954 time frame. The fascinating fact I found was that, as I mention in my write-up, of British Intelligence is "an untested spy", at least before the trouble in the first one starts.
- 09/08/2025 - A six-book, one-novella series excellently crafted by Samantha Adair joins the compendium today. It deals with main character who works for a highly secret, unnamed British intelligence organization on some pretty interesting matters. He is joined by the very fascinating Isabella in some of these.
- 09/06/2025 - As I mention in My Comments for the 5-book (so far) series by Amy Martinsen joining the compendium today, the overall theme of the series is taking a trio of untrained in the field but experts in their own right and use them on difficult missions for the CIA. These three are led by in very enjoyable tales billed as 'clean romantic suspense' but having enough cool spycraft in them to be welcome here.
- 09/04/2025 - A spy-adjacent series filled with in-your-face action joins the compendium today. There are two adventures by seasoned author Alex Ander about the former soldier working under contract for the CIA.
- 09/02/2025 - An 8-book and 1 novella series which is a combination of spycraft and warcraft joins the compendium today. Author David Edward, a chap who "knows how to tell a story with terrific characters" (as I said in My Comments), has done himself well with these tales about .
- 08/30/2025 - Joining the compendium is a 6-adventure series that I had a wee bit of trouble getting into because of, well, you should read My Comments about to see. After a bit, though, I did find the writing style of author John Hayden interesting.
- 08/28/2025 - I ended My Comments on today's entrant into the compendium with 'I really enjoyed the time I spent inside the universe. Author Chris Hadfield knows his stuff and can tell it land-loving folks like me.' This three-book series combines awesome 70s near-space thrills with a ton of cloak-and-dagger excitement thrown in.
- 08/26/2025 - A kick-butt action hero working for the not-so-well-known National Defense Agency joins the compendium today. is her name and she comes to the NDA from a time in the Rangers. Now in the 4-book action series by Michael P. King she and her good buddy Blunt she works in a field that is "strictly national security investigations". Loads of fun here.
- 08/24/2025 - Joining the compendium today is a Secret Service agent who is constantly having to go up against enemies, foreign and domestic, and those fellows are not nice people so cannot be either. Lots of actions professionally crafted by veteran author Jack Mars.
- 08/22/2025 - We head to the other side of the world from where I am comfortably sitting for the entry into the compendium today. The Indian Subcontinent, to be exact. There are five books currently available about Aaditya Sen, an agent for , penned wonderfully by Mainak Dhar. I seldom put quotes in these What's New entries but I loved the opening line of the first adventure, said by Sen: "Here’s some free career advice - when the man who could fire you says something that makes you angry, don’t let him know you want to kill him." Sage words!!
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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 60+ 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 adventures. Two's the minimum but the more the merrier.
Moreover, I have confined membership to the English language (with a couple of notable exceptions). 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!!