What's New
The last ten major changes to the site.
- 03/06/2025 - Veteran (in more than one way) writer Bob Mayer has been kind enough to us readers to give us a terrific six-book adventure series about a former Vietnam vet working as a fixer in 1970's New York. The CIA remembers how good was back when and wants to use him again.
- 03/05/2025 - Get ready for some science/hi-tech made easily understood and quite chilling in today's entrant into the compendium. Wonderfully penned by N.J. Crisp, the four books (so far) in the series are sure to make your eyebrows rise as you get more and more paranoid. Well, that was my reaction!
- 03/04/2025 - Today I see entered into the compendium a three-book series by Matthew Hart which is very much a federal police adventure dealing with illegal shenanigans in the diamond trade. It finds itself pulled into the spy-adjacent realm because of who some of the major players are and, IMHO, it definitely fits, much to the annoyance of the main character, , who thinks of himself as a federal cop first and only.
- 03/03/2025 - When my only complaint on the series entering the compendium today is that the action is so exciting and well written and that my heart is frail ... well, you know you have a winner. Richard Lyntton has given us three terrific adventures about a reporter, , who gets involved in lots and lots of spy-related troubles.
- 03/02/2025 - Joining the compendium this Sunday morn is a five-novella series about a CIA agent named who has a major axe to grind with some nasty folks and is good at wielding it. Penned in 2021 by Audrey Walker, these are fast reads.
- 03/01/2025 - I did not rate today's Saturday Morning entry very high because ... well ... you'll see for yourself when you head to learn about the . You will have noted the capitalization of the 'G'. Yep! Gators! Mango and Brash. Agents of S.U.I.T. There are 11 adventures by John Patrick Green. Still, if I had a very young reader, I would likely get these for him/her.
- 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.
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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!!