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The last ten major changes to the site.
- 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.
- 02/18/2025 - The name of the series entering the compendium today is which I found eye-catching, the word 'gargoyle' being the codename for the main character, a CIA agent named . Written by Robert A. Adamcik, these three books (it is a trilogy, you know) has, as I say in My Comments, Morgan as an analyst with Langley but this former Navy Seal is capable of much more, which is good because lots of very non-analyst things happen to him.
- 02/17/2025 - Entering the compendium this Presidents Day is an agent with the CIA whose last name is, as far as I could see, never revealed to us. This leaves us with, as the title of the series clearly shows on each cover of the (so far) two adventures, him being known as Jack - . I liked this action adventure series from the very beginning and I hope that author J. Robert Kennedy, who already has a couple of very successful series going, will let Jack have more page time.
- 02/16/2025 - Today's entrant into the compendium is not an agent but an agency and it takes place a ways in the future. How far ahead sorta depends on the adventure because we have numerous tales from different periods of time. All of these events take place in the Star Trek universe. The agency is the feared and talked about on in whispers . I know a few Trekkies do not approve of the concept of such an organization and I am kinda right with them but ... well, it is neat to watch and read these stories.
- 02/15/2025 - On this Saturday - a sort of wet and windy fellow - I add to the compendium a young adult reader spy series about Arnold, two 13-year-old girls who get mixed up with all sorts of spy stuff. They are not actually trained in it but that doesn't stop them from stepping into trouble - a lot. And then there is the matter of the CIA. There are three books in this series from Cora Taylor, penned in the 2005-2009 time frame.
- 02/14/2025 - Entering the compendium today is an FBI agent named . The first of the two adventures about Frost written by Jack Wulfen starts with a huge non-bang - no explosion but a big crater where the car bomb had gone off. Intriguing problem which just get better. Why is a G-Man like Frost in this collection? Well, he does not stay a normal G-Man for long.
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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!!