What's New
The last ten major changes to the site.
- 09/20/2020 - A very short and very fast but enjoyable two-novella series joins the compendium today. is an agent with an off-the-books British government agency called TEP. These were enjoyable stories that came out a few years ago. A full length novel was expected to follow but I have seen no evidence of it.
- 09/19/2020 - Added books to the entries for the following series: , , , , , and .
- 09/19/2020 - A very, very strange series joins the compendium today. It is brand new and would normally have waited on the TBR pile for a while but it meshed spy-fi and Star Trek and I had to check it out. I liked part of the stories and did not like others.
- 09/18/2020 - Today I take a bit of a step back in time to the 1980s when the terrific talent of prolific scribe Ralph Hayes, a man who already has 4 series in this compendium and contributions to a 5th, gave us a 4-book series about an operative who works for The Escape Committee, an unofficial name for a small group of people led by the American President. is one of a handful of agents attached to this secret group who gets tasked with handling situations the Committee deems needing done off-the-books.
- 09/17/2020 - I love a fun, original story and I found that in today's entry into the compendium. is an agent with the secret governmental department known as Q2 and the blurb for him says "he can be killed -- but he cannot die". As I mention in my write-up, how could I not check it out?
- 09/16/2020 - Travel back with me today for five adventures in the 1960's about CIA operative . Although written just a couple years ago, the author does a darn good job of capturing the feel from the mid-60's, enough to make me want to pull out my old mod clothes and ... okay, maybe not but these are still good adventures.
- 09/15/2020 - Today the lovely and quite impressive , an agent for the CIA, joins the compendium. There are three exciting adventures about this woman that I think you will enjoy.
- 09/14/2020 - Today I introduce to my compendium , one very intriguing woman whose adventures are named "Scratcher" for reasons that ... well, read what I wrote. But another interesting feature of this series is the subtitle to each book. The first one is "Samantha Vagus Kills Too Many People". If it was designed, and I am sure it was, to get attention, congrats! It worked!
- 09/13/2020 - If you are in the mood for a good guffaw (and we all should be in these very odd times), I would recommend today's entry into the compendium. It goes by the series title of and is a lot of fun following Peter Bolton and Piper Landry. Especially Piper. He is dangerous and exciting. She is very dangerous and very exciting.
- 09/12/2020 - I did a major rewrite to the entry with lots of new adventures I recently discovered, including the time that this James-Bond-In-Space futuristic agent acquired magnetic abilities and changed his name for a while to Mr. Magnet. After that, he went back to normal but stayed an agent. Lots of fun adventures, all of which I have made available for viewing.
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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!!