What's New
The last ten major changes to the site.
- 07/30/2025 - Entering the compendium today is a two-adventure graphic novel series about one heckuva fun female agent involved in some literally out-of-this-world missions. The always terrific Warren Ellis has given us, with the artistic skills of apparently numerous people but mostly Facundo Percio, the exciting and funny and ever-so-enjoyable .
- 07/28/2025 - How could I not pick up a two-book series by Lucas Sterling when I learned the name of the series was . I saw the books and knew instantly I was going to check them out. You should, too, if you like exciting spy-adjacent adventures.
- 07/26/2025 - This Saturday morning I have a pretty terrific young adult spy series which I bemoaned in My Comments I would have loved to have had to read when I was a young adult reader. Author Emily Kazmierski does a mighty fine job with the tales she gives us about female teenage CIA agent Loveday and her colleagues in the series from just a few years ago.
- 07/25/2025 - The first three books in a very enjoyable and well-worth reading series started ran from 1960-1967 have been reprinted and released. The author is Irwin R. Blacker and the terrific character starring in these exciting adventures is Richard LeGrande. I first wrote about this series back in 2012, giving it a grade of A- which shows I had a blast with it. I am thrilled that they have been brought back because it gives other spy-fi fans a chance to enjoy them as I did back then.
- 07/24/2025 - In My Comments for today's entrant, a two-book series by Mike Knowles from nearly a decade ago, I said, "The cover for the first book is an interesting one in that it proves that you cannot judge a book by ... you know. It looks like it should be a comic crime adventure ... It is not. Ted Sharp, aka , is a retired police detective who goes in search of his missing daughter and ends up involved in the cloak and dagger world. Good series.
- 07/22/2025 - As you will see in My Grade and My Comments for today's entrant into the compendium, I was not a fan of author John Moore's two (possibly three) book series about , a British agent for an unnamed department. 'Nuff said.
- 07/20/2025 - I have a very enjoyable, easy-to-read three book series about an interesting copper-haired Canadian female operative in her late 20s who loves adventure and travel and gets to do a bit of both in these tales by Gregory J. Curtis. The woman in question here is named . You should check her stories out.
- 07/18/2025 - Entering the compendium today is a young adult spy series - well, I put it in the category but I nearly didn't because it reads well enough to be highly enjoyable for older readers like myself. This three-book series by Robin M. King from a decade ago is a fun read. Take a look at the world of .
- 07/16/2025 - From several years ago comes a two-book series by J. D. Narramore which I said in My Comments I wished were more, they were that enjoyable. are two people who meet in the first adventure and quickly establish an enjoyable mentorship and close father-daughter relationship.
- 07/14/2025 - I enter into the compendium a young adult series designed largely for the female teen market but still enjoyable to this far from teen male. The three books in the series known as , penned delightfully by Lisa Orchard, deals with three young teens who are not really spies but do lots of spy-ish 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 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!!