What's New
The last ten major changes to the site.
- 04/24/2024 - Another "delightful series is a combination of cozy mystery coupled with some intriguing though low-keyed espionage work" joins the compendium today. is the name of the female operative the ten adventures crafted by Iona Whishaw detail. Very enjoyable reads about a very interesting woman.
- 04/23/2024 - 2500 !!. Oh my!! That is the mark hit with today's entrant into the compendium. And for that honor, I picked a tad out of planned sequence one fantastic spy series. About , superbly crafted by Edward Parr and taking place in and after WWI, I write in My Comments, "Is this a terrific set of awesome adventures! I was stunned at just how good they were because I had not seen anyone else (maybe I was just blind) sing its praises. And sung they should be because it is so rich and full-bodied and yet smooth (yeah, I know it sounds like a coffee commercial)."
- 04/22/2024 - Imagine getting knocked out in an explosion and waking out of a coma a decade later. Then imagine that during that time, the government doctors had 'experimented' here and there. That is the premise for an exciting series about by Michael Woodman.
- 04/21/2024 - Joining the compendium today is a really run, ever so gentle "cozy murder spy series". is a not young woman who runs a B&B with her older sister and a frequent guest is Edward who is more than a bit on the mysterious side. Love will follow and then marriage as she learns he is really an agent with British Intelligence and could really use her help. Before long, she is an operative, too. And there is a lot of excitement and quite a few bodies, especially when you consider how many novellas (26) and books (14 and counting) there are.
- 04/20/2024 - It is Saturday so again something for the younger spy fans. is a "series of half-hour-ish animated spy adventures is designed for young kids and therefore not supposed to be logical or sensible and therefore is neither but since it lasted for two seasons of roughly 11 double episodes each, someone somewhere liked it." It was not me but then again, I am not a kid - immature, yes, kid, no.
- 04/19/2024 - Excellent thriller author Adam Hamdy brings us a series about a former MI6 operative named who is pulled back into action and while he is not happy about it, he is still very good at it and Hamdy is very good at making us enjoy the Pearce adventures.
- 04/18/2024 - Property Management is what our newest member in the compendium, , is good at. That is why British Intelligence, having a need for such an expert, snatched him up to help them, really not giving him much of a choice. You do not need to know anything about such matters - I sure did not - but you will feel you do when you read his adventures.
- 04/17/2024 - I wrote in My Comments for the series of spy adventures entering the compendium today, "Being rogue is a bad thing up until they really need you". The powers that be at the CIA really do not like the way he does things but they like the results. As a reader, so did I. There are currently 6 exciting missions penned by Auston King for you to enjoy.
- 04/16/2024 - If I were a reader of adolescent-centric adventure/spy fiction back in 1949 when today's entrant started having stories crafted for him - done superbly by Eric Leyland - I would have loved them. I was not. I was three years from being born and probably 10 years from being able to enjoy tales of . Plus I would have been in South Dakota in the Midwest of the US, not in the UK where these stories were being sold. Still, I - and you - can read them today if you look hard enough.
- 04/15/2024 - I guess I should have been used to it by now from back in the day when the much-beloved Barbara Feldon's Get Smart character was only known as Agent 99 but ... today's entrant is a spy from 1940 who is known as K-4 to everyone, even best buddies. That's - um - weird. The series is a bit weird as well but still not bad at all. The series name is and there were but 3 adventures, written by Joe Cal Cagno.
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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!!