What's New
The last ten major changes to the site.
- 04/24/2025 - In My Comments for the three-book series about entering the compendium today, I mention how much I loved my too-brief time in Greece and how these adventures by Kenneth Overman took me back to those days. The author does a terrific job making you feel like you are there even as he unfolds several darned fine and exciting tales. Hopefully he will give us more.
- 04/22/2025 - Today's entrant, , comes to us initially from the pages of a different series by a different author, the character Jet by Russell Blake.
- 04/20/2025 - I ended My Comments for today's entrant with the question: "Things are really as scary as [author Frank Miniter] makes them sound, right?" That is because the three adventures of Private Eye and his messing with the Deep State makes for some very unnerving reading. Darn good writing, by the way, but the storylines are, as I said, unnerving.
- 04/18/2025 - We are heading back in time to 1933 where a very accomplished British author named Gilbert Frankau came out first with a book subtitled A Romance of Love and the Secret Service - itself an interesting combination - talking of the romantic issues the main character, , had while also being an agent with a British intelligence organization, though the actual missions were only alluded to. Then the man apparently decided he liked the character enough to craft seven different short stories about the man's adventures on some actual missions, while also not mentioning his romantic issues back home. I found it all fascinating.
- 04/16/2025 - When the name of the series asks the question as to who the series character is, well, you know you have something unusual. Reading the first issue of this graphic spy fiction story showed me I was definitely reading something unusual. In a very good way. The question was: Who Is . The answer is a lot of fun.
- 04/14/2025 - We head back in time to just after World War One in the series entering the compendium today. Written just recently with more adventures coming, the seven spy-mystery tales about by Anna Lee Huber is a good way to spend a lot of enjoyable reading hours.
- 04/12/2025 - A series which did not last long on Netflix and one that I tried but could not get the hang of joins the compendium today. Created by Kagiso Lediga, the 6-episode series about came and went quickly.
- 04/11/2025 - Today's newcomer to the compendium is an FBI agent who is an expert at spy-hunting, which puts him in the cross-hairs of a particularly capable and vindictive Russian operative who knows he has to get rid of his nemesis. The things he does against is scary. The five adventures (so far) by Russ Linton are exciting.
- 04/10/2025 - There is not much doubt what you will get with today's newcomer to the compendium when you look at the title of the first book - Hollow-Point Diplomacy - and then see that the company for whom works is called 'Snakeriver'. Lots of action here.
- 04/09/2025 - I would tell you the name of today's entrant into the compendium but, well, I do not know it. No one does, really. That is the concept behind the graphic adventures of told in D.C. Comics starting in 1966 (really 1970). This fellow is a man who uses impressive disguises to become just about anyone as he goes deep into enemy territory to do all sorts of spy/saboteur/assassin stuff.
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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!!