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Alec Leamas, in the 1965 film The Spy Who Came in from the Cold; Alexander Scott, from the TV series I Spy; Allen Gamble and Terry Hoitz, from the movie The Other Guys; Amos Burke, from TV series Burke's Law; Annie Walker from the USA original series Covert Affairs; Arun Khanna, from the 2003 Indian film The Hero: Love Story of a Spy
Perhaps the most famous fictional spy, Bond was introduced in Casino Royale (1953). After Fleming's death the franchise continued under other British and American authors, including Kingsley Amis, Christopher Wood, John Gardner, Raymond Benson, Sebastian Faulks, Jeffery Deaver, William Boyd and Anthony Horowitz. The Bond novels, which were ...
During the 1960s trend for action-adventure spy thrillers, it was a common practice for fictional spy organizations or their nemeses to employ names that were contrived acronyms. Sometimes these acronyms' expanded meanings made sense, but most of the time they were words incongruously crammed together for the mere purpose of obtaining a catchy ...
Fictional comic book counter-terrorism and intelligence agency that often deals with superhuman threats: Marvel Universe Marvel Cinematic Universe: Comics S.W.O.R.D. Sentient World Observation and Response Department A fictional counterterrorism and intelligence agency to deal with extraterrestrial threats to world security.
Three writers of recent espionage fiction, Terry Hayes, Lea Carpenter and David Downing, turn their keen powers of observation on 1950s Los Angeles, current-day Europe and beyond to shed light on ...
S. S.A.S. à San Salvador; Sarutobi Sasuke; Scarlet Spider; Scooter: Secret Agent; Robert Scorpio; Second Son (short story) The Secret Files of the Spy Dogs
They are often popularized as individual characters rather than parts of the fictional work in which they appear. Stories involving individual detectives are well-suited to dramatic presentation, resulting in many popular theatre, television, and film characters. The first famous detective in fiction was Edgar Allan Poe's C. Auguste Dupin. [1]
The most famous spy for Cuba, ex-Cuban Air Force Major Juan Pablo Roque, boasted that he was “Richard Gere’s Cuban double.” He married a Republican Cuban American and infiltrated Brothers to ...