What's New
The last ten major changes to the site.
- 10/29/2024 - Today we bring into the compendium a fairly recent comicbook spy series from the pages of The Mighty Avengers. The pair of operatives who comprise the team known as have the names of Ace and (my favorite) One-Eyed Jacquie. Get it? Blackjack? Took me a while and goodness knows I've lost a tenner or two over the years at those tables in Vegas. These agents work for ... wait for it ... G.R.A.M.P.A.
- 10/28/2024 - I point out in My Comments that "It is kind of important when you are facing a zombie T-Rex that you have a sense of humor." I'm sure most people already knew that but not me! What am I talking about? , agent with MI37, about whom author Jonathan Wood has penned four very amusing adventures combining fantasy with sci-fi and spy-fi which will bring more than a couple chortles from you.
- 10/27/2024 - For quite a while I held off reading this series because I did not think it a spy series for this site. Then I heard it maybe was. Then I read the first of the 10 adventures about and knew these exciting action adventures did belong in the compendium. Thanks go to Jack Coughlin and Donald A. Davis for penning these stories for us.
- 10/26/2024 - The word I used in My Comments for , today's newcomer to the compendium, was "psyched", an honest description I had when I learned it was coming to the television screen. After several seasons, I still used that word. As I said in closing, "this show was a class act all the way". Granted, it was more spy-adjacent but still, without it I would not have known that Tahiti was a magical place [inside joke].
- 10/25/2024 - As I state in My Comments for today's newcomer to the site, "I was a huge fan of another series by the author, David Rollins." Despite that, it took me a while to start another one of his series. Why? I claim stupidity on my part and I have the evidence. Regardless of the reason, I finally did give it a try and really liked it so I am pleased to welcome into the collection with the two-book series about this Australian SAS enlisted man who gets involved in some cloak and dagger stuff.
- 10/24/2024 - Imagine a group of seductive young women all trained to take on any sort of espionage mission, whether it is to seduce vital secrets under the guise of pillow talk or to use that same pillow - or anything else at hand - to silence a target forever. There have been many names for such training over the years. In today's entry into the compendium, they are with Merlin being a mature female, herself a former operative, who has her own school for such things. Andrea Pickens is the highly experienced romance writer who has used the cloak and dagger genre for a trio of very enjoyable adventures, penned decade and a half ago.
- 10/23/2024 - My Comments for today's newcomer to the compendium says, "I really enjoyed the way that the life of the main character, , takes a totally unexpected and undesired change when a couple of bad guys decide she knows something she shouldn't. And then a mysterious man steps in, saves her life, and sends her on her way. Damsel in distress tale? Oh, not so much!". The 4 adventures we have of her from author David Bishop are all very entertaining and I wish he would do more.
- 10/22/2024 - I enjoyed today's entrant except for ... well, we'll get to that. is the name for the two agents who work for the ultra secret Global Intelligence Commission, Zeke and Phoenix. The pair of adventures about them, penned by Ernest Dempsey, were very well plotted and written and I did enjoy both of them quite a bit. The exception was for Zeke who is way too annoying - but that is IMHO. I did like Phoenix, though. Tastes may vary.
- 10/21/2024 - Today's entrant into the compendium is, on paper, a highly successful action-adventure author who has never written anything; someone else unseen and definitely uncredited does the scripting for him. , aka Michael Stryker, just deposits the very large checks and takes the accolades. Oh, he also kills people while working for a highly secret organization called the Alliance. To be kinder to his reputation, I do note that he makes sure his targets are all very bad people, and then he eliminates them. The author, Sterling Kirkland, has moved on to a couple other series, non-spy but they look very interesting, so I do not know if he will return to Black's world or not but there are two exciting books to enjoy.
- 10/20/2024 - When is a series not really a series? In today's case, it is when three parts of what amounts to a short story are marketed separately. is the name for this series - her last name is supposedly Romanov but Natalia is how she is referenced. It apparently took two people, Shani Finn and Pieter Becker, to bring us these pieces of one puzzle about a Russian FSB agent out for revenge and using sex to get it. I did not think very highly of the "stories".
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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!!