What's New
The last ten major changes to the site.
- 01/23/2025 - Inside the pages of the three-adventure series penned for us by over this last decade, author Jack Grimwood has taken us back to the middle-ish years of the 1980s. The British Military Intelligence agent we are allowed to follow is , a fellow who comes across as pretty heartless because he speaks his mind and does not mince words. As time and the story go by, we find he does have feelings but must suppress them to do his job. As I mention in My Comments, I do not think I would ever be friends with Fox but I really enjoyed watching him be him.
- 01/22/2025 - Author Nathan M. Farrugia already has one series in the compendium though I did have some issues with it. Not so much with today's entrant, a fun series (well, fun for me to read, not so much fun for the main characters considering what the author puts them through). I enjoyed reading about . Mind you, these books are really a continuation of that previous series about an organization which really needs getting wiped out but the author has done a good job with these.
- 01/21/2025 - My current EuroSpy re-obsession continues with a very large number of sort-of related movies, all dealing with or connected to or cousins of . When you read my entry, you will notice I present 13 - yep, 13 - different movies. Are all of them actually about 077? Well, read the page and see. And hopefully you will enjoy the read as much as I enjoyed the write.
- 01/20/2025 - I realize that the Holiday Season is over. Christmas has come and gone and will not be back until next December (October for many retailers and television advertisers). But I have this unusual kid's spy series that is still waiting entrance into the compendium so, late or not, here is the unusual series of 4 adventures by Ryan Jacobson about . Meant for readers 6-10, these chapter books are good for introducing spy fiction to youngsters.
- 01/19/2025 - I am continuing my 'fascination' of 60's Eurospy movie series with the addition of , a CIA agent in 2, maybe 3, possibly 4 movies. American actor Richard Harrison plays Fleming in two of them and sort of in a third and ... well, read my entry to learn more.
- 01/18/2025 - Gifted author Christy Fifield gave up not quite a decade ago five short adventures about Claire Griffith and Violet Bates, two agents whose exploits are recounted in . I enjoyed them and you will likely as well if you keep in mind they are intended for young readers. I can be young at heart some times. Really.
- 01/18/2025 - I heard yesterday from a fellow website host, John Alejandro King, who has the terrific and oh-so-funny site . Every fan of spy fiction deserves the occasional laugh and this site gives us tons of them.
Two example from the website that are amusing and thought provoking are:
1) As an Agency employee, whenever I hear that the CIA is programming people's minds, I have to laugh.
I don't want to laugh when I hear this, but I have to.
2) A paper tiger can still give you a nasty paper cut.
He also has collected a lot of these into a very funny book I bought immediately from Amazon called Life's Little Covert Operations Manual.
Three examples from the book are:
1) A nondisclosure agreement goes without saying.
2) Money is the recruit of all evil.
3) Remember, vast government conspiracies create jobs.
As I indicated, many of these make you think and most make you smile, a lot.
Well done, John, and thanks a ton for letting me know what I have been missing.
Oh, one I found especially good is:
I will no longer pretend to be someone I'm not. From now on, I'm pretending to be me.
- 01/17/2025 - Most of the first of the three adventures of today's entrant into the compendium does not qualify for membership because it deals with the main character, going after nasty but non-espionage-ish bad guys. Still a fascinating story and well worth reading but not spy-fi. The second and third adventures, however, richly penned by Richard Paolinelli, absolutely qualify him for a position here and so, please welcome this dedicated FBI agent to the group. I was especially impressed with the times that Del Rio spent on the Navaho Reservation - I learned a lot.
- 01/16/2025 - There is one constant sequence to the Eurospy series about shown on movie screens all over the world starting in 1965 - that is "Love a lady, fight a goon, rinse and repeat". Malloy, Agent 077, is always doing one or the other, it seems in the three - possibly four movies starring Ken Clark.
- 01/15/2025 - We (and by that I mean 'me' and hopefully 'you') welcome to the compendium , two agents of the British Nobility, as I put it in my page devoted to this three-book series by Steven Veerapen. The Coles are active in their clandestine work in the second half of the 1560s. I postulate in My Comments that Jack Cole does not like his profession - he certainly does not like having to do some of the things he is forced to do. Amy, on the other hand, loves danger and adventure and intrigue. This makes for some very interesting conversations in a series that I quite enjoyed.
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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!!