What's New
The last ten major changes to the site.
- 04/15/2024 - I guess I should have been used to it by now from back in the day when the much-beloved Barbara Feldon's Get Smart character was only known as Agent 99 but ... today's entrant is a spy from 1940 who is known as K-4 to everyone, even best buddies. That's - um - weird. The series is a bit weird as well but still not bad at all. The series name is and there were but 3 adventures, written by Joe Cal Cagno.
- 04/14/2024 - I thought I was being generous with today's entrant, a really bad 2-comic adventure from 1940, by giving a "D" grade. I could have gone with a "D-" but, like I said, generous. by Fletcher Hanks is one that came and then blessedly left quickly.
- 04/13/2024 - This Saturday morning I invite into the compendium a spy game series that I played years ago - not very well but I did try! It is obviously a spy-oriented series because the name of the main fellow is ... . As stories go, the prose is virtually non-existent but there is a ton of action.
- 04/12/2024 - In My Comments for today's newcomer to the collection, I asked the question: "Just how much trouble can one not-so-perfect agent with the name of get into?" The answer is: a lot!
- 04/11/2024 - A very short-lived British television spy series about a man named Mike Anson from 1957 joins the compendium today. I do not know a whole lot about it because it was so quickly gone and it was in another country and I was 5 years old at the time and we did not have television. Still, for your edification - as much as I could edify on the subject, here is .
- 04/11/2024 - Happy Birthday to my bride of several decades. We are growing old together, my love, but my love for you still feels young - and strong.
- 04/10/2024 - As I obsess with in My Comments on today's entrant, the titles of the three books about and her colleagues, aka the Dangerous Clique series by Jim Geraghty, the book titles have in them the numbers 2, 4, and 5. What happened to 1 and 3? I suggest you ignore this rant and just enjoy these books, as I did.
- 04/09/2024 - Naming a book after the main character is not unheard of but it is rare - having the second book do the same but adding the word 'Unhinged", that's eye catching. Also unusual is the name of the private intelligence company that works for in this two-adventure series by Jo Cassidy. Its acronym is DPS. Its breakdown is ... odd.
- 04/08/2024 - A fascinating and quite enjoyable series of fictional (so I think!) spy-adjacent escapades of 1920's real-life American adventurer joins the compendium today. They were penned by Garrett Drake who, reading his bio, comes across as a pretty impressive adventurer himself.
- 04/07/2024 - Entering the compendium today with his three-book series about a former CIA operative named (somewhat appropriate) who retired to become a Baptist minister is author Andrew Huff. These are well-written adventures in which Cross may have left the espionage profession but no one convinced Langley of that.
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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!!