What's New
The last ten major changes to the site.
- 06/12/2025 - Entering the compendium today is a Young Adult reader series about a set of twins who have been raised since birth to be operatives for an organization named DAAAD. Their identities have been kept secret from the world - it is like they do not even exist - except for the fact that they have a YouTube channel! Not many secret agents have a social media presence. Very interesting trio of adventures here about penned by Terri Selting David.
- 06/10/2025 - On the plus side for today's entry into the compendium, we have the sizes of each tale being in the short story category and I really enjoy that size (well, I prefer novelette or novella but short story is cool). On the negative side, the adventures of needed more fleshing out to be enjoyable. Still, I did like most of what author Elizabeth Bent gave us in this series from a decade ago.
- 06/08/2025 - An FBI agent who is thrown up against a bunch of very nasty people out to hurt America joins the compendium today. is a very solid character presented to us with very solid writing by C. Kevin Thompson leaving us (well, me for one) quite breathless at times. There are five adventures about Meyer so far and maybe more to come.
- 06/06/2025 - Of the two-book series about by C.H. Lyn, I wrote in My Comments, "though I was stymied in labeling the stories, I found I was fascinated by them and enjoyed both of them more than I ever expected." Don't let the series name confuse you - there is a good deal of spyin' goin' on. I especially enjoyed the actual travel guides.
- 06/04/2025 - Today's entrant into the compendium is a 2-book (sort of a 3-book) series dealing with a CIA agent named who is teamed with a DEA agent to take down some pretty bad folks. This series was originally published under the penname of Wynter S.K. before being rereleased under the author's name of Meredith Allison.
- 06/02/2025 - I didn't post a Saturday Kids spy series on Saturday as I often do so I am doing so today with a television series from 2009-2012 about four Clark siblings known as . Created by David Michel and Vincent Charlvon-Demersay, these adventures ran for 2 seasons of 26 episodes each. These kids are amazing (well, duh! It's in their title!) and if I were a kid, I would have made sure I watched a bunch of them. Not a kid, now, of course, but still watched a few just to, well, you know - research!
- 05/30/2025 - Entering the compendium today is a fascinating woman named , a British woman who is hired by an organization in the country's intelligence community with the unusual name of the Overlappers. I liked that name and I liked the explanation as to its meaning. The two books in this series are penned quite nicely by James Silvester.
- 05/28/2025 - As I mention in My Comments for the three-adventure series about entering the compendium today, you are likely to wonder when looking at these books by Lexy Timms, 'Where is the spy-ness in all this heated passion and lust'. Check out my write-up to learn more.
- 05/26/2025 - Today's newcomer to the compendium is an interesting set of four short stories about a pretty cool CIA operative named Charley McKenna. The series name is and it was conceived of by James Hopwood who then wrote one of the quartet of tales and got three other authors to pen their own stories with Charley as the lead. The stories were then collected in one book.
- 05/24/2025 - A lesson for spies in general dealing with bringing pastries is one of the lessons learnable in today's entry for young readers, the four-adventure series about delightfully written by Sarah Todd Taylor.
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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!!