In comedic media, say, Archer, we see the main character more often than not, hook up with prostitutes, when they shouldn't really have a hard time getting women.
Is that out of sheer laziness or what?
I recently watched Black Widow and am looking for a spy fiction book (not a comic) with a female lead. Please let me know if you have any suggestions βΊοΈ
Hi all, thanks for your help in advance.
Iβm looking for a fictional book about spies. I would like fantasy, but Iβm open to any type of fiction.
Iβve read Assassins Apprentice, The Lies of Locke Lamora, The Trickster series by Tamara Pierce, City of Stairs, and The Six of Crows duology.
Any recommendations ? Open to YA, NA, or regular adult fiction.
I remember reading this book for class between 6-8th grade, so it would have been published prior to 2015, more likely prior to 2013. I remember the plot being that a young woman was part of a spy organization (or something of that sort) and she was assigned to do some spy thing or find something in the manor of a wealthy person. She was placed as a maid there. I also remember at some point she winds up at Scotland Yard. There was something to do with a key, either she was in search of the key or it was highly relevant to the plot.
Any good spy fiction series? Is the Bourne series any good? Jack Ryan?
I think the main character (probably a spy, called David, or Michael) was called to help with an investigation of some sorts at the Vatican or simply protecting the pope while he had to undergo brain surgery, but before going, he had to go pick-up another character in Russia.
I think on the cover was a golden goblet, and perhaps a snake or dragon around it.
I read this book (paperback, large format, not pocket book) in the early 2000s, while on holiday, possibly borrowed from a mobile library, so not possible to track down this way. The book would probably have been written in the 1990s since relatively contemporary technology was cited.
Sorry, not much to go on. And the more time passes, the more I fear my brain is mixing elements from different books. :(
Iβm looking for a book or series for high school or middle school level readers. The main books Iβm thinking of that Iβve already enjoyed are the Artemis Fowl series, the Bartimaeus series, A Series of Unfortunate Events, and Scott Westerfeldβs Leviathan trilogy. I love the mixture of ambiguously or explicitly fantastical or supernatural elements with a modern technological or anachronistic technological (steampunk, neogothic, etc) aesthetic, as well as clever but flawed main characters in a alternate history setting with cool worldbuilding.
More specifically, I like the crime, intrigue and espionage elements of Artemis and Bartimaeus, the swashbuckling adventure and romance of Leviathan, the humor and prose of ASoUE, the secret society stuff in the first three, and the interesting settings and supporting characters of all of them.
Anything that fits the magi-tech setting with a good adventure or espionage plot is appreciated. Also; good adaptations, good fandom and fanart communities, and good lgbtq representation arenβt necessary but I really enjoy them in books as well.
I know there's a lot of spy fiction out there but I would love to find some that are set in the 1930s...even better if the story is from the POV of Communist / Soviet spies or working for the Soviet Union.
I'm just fascinated by that era: the rise of Fascism, the fall of Germany to Hitler, the exile of Communists everywhere, the Spanish Civil War, the Great Illegals, Alexander Orlov, Stalinists vs Trotskysts, the Great Terror, etc.
I find it baffling that so few Games try to make you feel like 007, when the medium fits video games perfectly.
Games are all about Power Fantasy, in other media that would be condemned, it Video Games it's celebrated. So WHY are there so few games that try to deliver on what's basically the ultimate modern Power Fantasy, Spy Fiction?
Feel free to use this post to discuss Spy Fiction in any Medium, talk about Spy Games or even share your ideas on how you would make a Spy Fiction game, I'd love to discuss this with y'all.
The book is on Jstor, but my institute log-in doesn't cover it.
ISBN-10 : 1474401104
ISBN-13 : 978-1474401104
DOI:10.3366/edinburgh/9781474401104.001.0001
ISBN:9781474401104 1474401104 9781474431477 147443147XOCLC
**Number:**1129399543
https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.3366/j.ctt1bh2j2x
https://www.amazon.com/Espionage-Exile-Fascism-Anti-Fascism-British/dp/1474401104
Looking for these for the time being. Thanks!
Edit: Forgot to add True Crime: NYC to my wants
Hereβs the books I have read to give you a idea to suggest please leave your suggestion for me below thank you for your help and suggestions and for reading this post!
The Alice network by Kate Quinn,
The spies of shilling lane by Jennifer Ryan
Dragonfly by Leila Meacham
( Books I have read and enjoyed)
I am wondering if I have made it through the catalog of good spy/espionage non fiction and am looking for recommendations. Iβve read all Ben Macintyre, Billion Dollar Spy, Argo, and a few others. Any recommendations in that genre would be very much appreciated. Thanks!
I hate to be that person who remembers the cover better than the content, but it was red. I bought it because it looked like my newest favorite book at the time, The Raw Shark Texts. I was a teenager, forgive me.
This was hardcover and probably 300-400 pages. I remember a train station. I think the plot opened at a train station. The main character had some kind of government job sniffing out βunwholesomeβ things and arresting people for it. Was there mention of homosexuality? Maybe.
The other setting that I recall was an apartment. We went there several times and one of those times was after it had been broken into and trashed by the agents because⦠they supposed there were illegal things/thoughts there?
The main character was friends with a couple (married couple?). Theyβre the only other characters I recall.
I believe it ends with the main character being caught doing one of the things he would arrest other people for.
The real issue here is that for years I thought this book was called Catch-22. I canβt find a red-cover version of that, nor can I find a version set in Russia. (haha).
Authorβs last name possibly begins with H because, of course thatβs a detail my stupid brain would hold onto hardest.
And itβs been so long I canβt be sure what parts of this are real memory and what are manufactured.
I remember so vividly my best friend and I constantly taking the book out of our school library. It seems so odd to me now but it had all these strategies for spying, strategies, diagrams, and places to hide, etc. I really want to find it, if only to see if it is really as I remember it. We use to call it "The Book of Spying" though I don't know if that was its actual title. We were reading it in the late '80s/early '90s though obviously it could have been published earlier. Does anybody know of this book?
Thank you!
Any good spy fiction series? Is the Bourne series any good? Jack Ryan?
Looking for these. Thanks
The book is on Jstor, but my institute log-in doesn't cover it.
ISBN-10 : 1474401104
ISBN-13 : 978-1474401104
DOI:10.3366/edinburgh/9781474401104.001.0001
ISBN:9781474401104 1474401104 9781474431477 147443147XOCLC
**Number:**1129399543
https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.3366/j.ctt1bh2j2x
https://www.amazon.com/Espionage-Exile-Fascism-Anti-Fascism-British/dp/1474401104
Hereβs the books I have read to give you a idea to suggest please leave your suggestion for me below thank you for your help and suggestions and for reading this post!
The Alice network by Kate Quinn,
The spies of shilling lane by Jennifer Ryan
Dragonfly by Leila Meacham
( Books I have read and enjoyed)
