What's New
The last ten major changes to the site.
- 08/26/2025 - A kick-butt action hero working for the not-so-well-known National Defense Agency joins the compendium today. is her name and she comes to the NDA from a time in the Rangers. Now in the 4-book action series by Michael P. King she and her good buddy Blunt she works in a field that is "strictly national security investigations". Loads of fun here.
- 08/24/2025 - Joining the compendium today is a Secret Service agent who is constantly having to go up against enemies, foreign and domestic, and those fellows are not nice people so cannot be either. Lots of actions professionally crafted by veteran author Jack Mars.
- 08/22/2025 - We head to the other side of the world from where I am comfortably sitting for the entry into the compendium today. The Indian Subcontinent, to be exact. There are five books currently available about Aaditya Sen, an agent for , penned wonderfully by Mainak Dhar. I seldom put quotes in these What's New entries but I loved the opening line of the first adventure, said by Sen: "Here’s some free career advice - when the man who could fire you says something that makes you angry, don’t let him know you want to kill him." Sage words!!
- 08/20/2025 - Today I welcome into the compendium a two-book series by Benjamin Campbell with really good titles and even better characters. The lousy things that happen to just ain't fair but make for really enjoyable reading.
- 08/18/2025 - An 11-book (as of this posting) series written recently but taking place back in the 70s joins the compendium. Crafted with considerable wit and (to me) a wee bit of cynicism by Bill Shuey, the adventures of working for the mysterious Committee definitely deserve membership here.
- 08/16/2025 - Joining the compendium today is an FBI agent named who earns a spot here because he is forced to work with the CIA in a couple of very nasty cases. I liked these books by Jason Garbo a good deal.
- 08/14/2025 - Joining the compendium is a series that will be interesting to people who love conspiracy theories. I am not one of those so I did not take to the 4-book adventure series by Sam Whitfield about a shadowy government agent named . If, though, you are a fan of such ideas, boy! Is this one for you.
- 08/12/2025 - Joining the compendium today is an "action filled series [which] is really spy-ish-adjacent", close enough to fit but still requiring (in my mind) the acknowledgement that there is a whole lot more action than suspense. I had a blast with the three tales of that author Ted Galdi has given us even if pinning down his exact employment status was challenging.
- 08/10/2025 - We head back in time - way back - in a two-book (soon to be three-) series written recently by A. J. MacKenzie, penname for a husband and wife writing team. is the man we follow in these adventures who holds the extremely dangerous job of King's Messenger back in the first half of the 14th Century.
- 08/08/2025 - Entering the compendium today is a series by Barbara Chadderdon which, as I state in My Comments, "These four adventures about are a highly entertaining combination of spy and romance fiction with, IMHO, the spy part playing the bigger role." Saunders is not the only character in the series which gets important attention but, again IMHO, she is the focal point for all of them.
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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!!