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The last ten major changes to the site.
- 05/10/2024 - Joining the compendium today is a quite enjoyable three-adventures series taking place a good number of years ago - the mid 1650's. Delightfully penned by Andrew Lane, these tales show a different viewpoint of the adventures of and his companion, Friday, after the rescue from the island. The differences are that they would be enticed into working for British Intelligence. And Friday is a beautiful young woman.
- 05/09/2024 - The apparently considerable fascist movement inside the UK pre-WWII who liked a lot of what the Nazis were pushing and who wanted very much to keep the British government out of any fight with their buddies. That is the subject matter for the MI6 operative being entered into the compendium today. is the man's name, his adventures being penned superbly by Jana Petken. There are currently 4 in this well-crafted series and hopefully more to come.
- 05/08/2024 - Almost all spy guys and gals who have his/her own page in this compendium is the star of the series. Not in the case of . The book series she is in is called Red Dragon Rising, written by Larry Bond and Jim DeFelice, and Duncan is not the main character in any of those adventures. She warrants membership herein because she is a key participant in each portion and she is so darned fascinating.
- 05/07/2024 - A good comment on today's new member to the compendium comes from the character himself. is a former KGB agent who decides to work for the CIA. He says, "I'm an alley cat. No one likes alley cats but alley cats know how to get the job done when it comes to rats". There are four well written adventures by James Houston Turner and while I did not particularly like the character per se, I did like the writing quite a bit.
- 05/06/2024 - Just home from the hospital with a prognosis of pneumonia - icky! But that means bedrest which means lots of reading time. Before I retire for the night with a good book, I add to this compendium the tales of , aka Theodora Laurent and Lord Reginald Bankes-Fernsby. Six exciting and well-penned "'cozy' whodunnits [in which] each investigation this pair takes part in fall firmly inside the boundaries of spy-fi. Lynn Morrison does a terrific job taking us back to the 1920s.
- 05/05/2024 - We travel back to 1935 and a trio of novelettes written by G.H. Teed, an author who specialized in Sexton Blake mysteries. These three tales of a freelance group of spies threatening England's security, known as , were first published in Detective Weekly in the first half of that year and then collected in a book with that group's name later the same year.
- 05/04/2024 - May the Fourth Be With You! Today's entrant has no connection to Star Wars but I thought I would give the now traditional geeky greeting anyways. Since it is a Saturday I add a series originally designed for young readers, a comicbook spy with some impressive mental abilities and the unfortunate name of - alliterative but silly. As I say in My Comments, I am pretty sure I read two or three of the original comics back in the mid-60s.
- 05/03/2024 - I introduce to my compendium today a pretty darn good cozy murder turned cozy spy series designed and excellently crafted for young readers. We have a brainy Sophie and a gutsy Lilian take on all sorts of dangers and troubles and come out alright at the end but not without a lot of excitement. Good stuff, here, in the series of 8 books and 1 novella by Katherine Woodfine.
- 05/02/2024 - In My Comments for today's newcomer, I wrote "This is a wonderfully silly, over-the-top send-up of the stereotypical action hero done to extremes and having a blast with it. I loved it" If you have a sense of humor (or sense of silly), you will too so check out , wonderfully written by Will Jacobs and Gerard Jones.
- 05/01/2024 - For this May Day we will travel back in time to the days a bit before the start of the Second World War as we follow the two-adventure (so far) story of , penned quite nicely for us by Richard D. Handy. This chap (Nash, not Handy) is an MI6 agent we we watch him do his covert work in 1933 and then some years later in 1941.
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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!!