What's New
The last ten major changes to the site.
- 06/24/2025 - I had a blast with the name of, and concept of, the department inside MI5 that today's entrant works with. Read my explanation to learn what that is. And to learn about the really fun adventures of written by Tom Quiller.
- 06/22/2025 - The adage that you can't judge a book by its cover is so very true but in many cases, such as today's entrant into the compendium, such a judgment is, well, justified. The covers for the two books (so far, hopefully) about , written superbly by skilled author Cindy Dees, look like the book inside them should be exciting and, IMHO, they are. I really enjoyed these two adventures about the retired CIA operative and I think you will as well.
- 06/20/2025 - Happy Summer Solstice! I spent most of it out in the sun doing lots of yardwork. But I still had time to add to this site. In My Comments for today's entrant into the compendium, I wrote "I was hooked by both characters immediately and when the first adventure led into the other two, I went gladly and willingly." The two characters, superbly presented by R.C.S. Hutching, are Clarence Wilkinson and Jenny Matheson. Their stories are told in a series entitled . I loved it!
- 06/18/2025 - If you take fantastic video game from (oh, lord! a quarter century ago??!!), come out with a couple of darned good sequels, toss in some very well written and drawn graphic adventures, and top it all off with two companion adventure novels penned by the terrific Greg Rucka, you have winner and a half. And in the character of the protagonist in it all, Joanna Dark, you have a winner as well. Entering the compendium today is the very, very impressive .
- 06/16/2025 - A year or so ago I added a series about a baseball player who gets involved in spy stuff. Today I add to the compendium an American football player who has four exciting adventures to tell us. These highly enjoyable tales about come to us from the minds of Jason Elam, retired NFL placekicker, and Steve Yohn.
- 06/14/2025 - It is a Saturday morning as I type this latest addition to the compendium. I say in My Comments about -- get ready for this odd title -- that "The spy-ness of the series is, not surprising, very limited but the stories are cute and great for the target audience [quite young] and the author, Tom Angleberger, has a delightful sense of humor and timing. Mostly I had some issues with it but then again, I am not a 'quite young' reader any more, despite how I act.
- 06/12/2025 - Entering the compendium today is a Young Adult reader series about a set of twins who have been raised since birth to be operatives for an organization named DAAAD. Their identities have been kept secret from the world - it is like they do not even exist - except for the fact that they have a YouTube channel! Not many secret agents have a social media presence. Very interesting trio of adventures here about penned by Terri Selting David.
- 06/10/2025 - On the plus side for today's entry into the compendium, we have the sizes of each tale being in the short story category and I really enjoy that size (well, I prefer novelette or novella but short story is cool). On the negative side, the adventures of needed more fleshing out to be enjoyable. Still, I did like most of what author Elizabeth Bent gave us in this series from a decade ago.
- 06/08/2025 - An FBI agent who is thrown up against a bunch of very nasty people out to hurt America joins the compendium today. is a very solid character presented to us with very solid writing by C. Kevin Thompson leaving us (well, me for one) quite breathless at times. There are five adventures about Meyer so far and maybe more to come.
- 06/06/2025 - Of the two-book series about by C.H. Lyn, I wrote in My Comments, "though I was stymied in labeling the stories, I found I was fascinated by them and enjoyed both of them more than I ever expected." Don't let the series name confuse you - there is a good deal of spyin' goin' on. I especially enjoyed the actual travel guides.
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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!!