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Basil St. Florian, the main protagonist of Stephen Hunter's 2021 novel Basil's War; Blackford Oakes is a Central Intelligence Agency officer, spy and the protagonist of a series of novels written by William F. Buckley; Carl Hamilton, Swedish secret agent from the Books of Jan Guillou
Control (Britain), George Smiley (Britain) and Karla (Soviet Union) in John le Carré novels. M, the head of MI6 in Ian Fleming's James Bond series. Lord Varys, known as "The Spider", is the Master of Whisperers of the King's Small Council in the fictional Seven Kingdoms of Westeros, from George R.R. Martin's A Song of Ice and Fire series of ...
To make it easier to parse through the many, many books published within the mystery/thriller genre, we've picked out 20 of the best spy novels of all time. Casino Royale (1953)
The Cellist (novel) The Charlemagne Pursuit; The Charm School (novel) City of the Sun (Maio novel) The Collector (Silva novel) The Company (Littell novel) The Confessor (novel) Counterparts (novel) Cyborg (novel) Cyborg IV
With the proliferation of male protagonists in the spy fiction genre, writers and book packagers also started bringing out spy fiction with a female as the protagonist. One notable spy series is The Baroness , featuring a sexy female superspy, with the novels being more action-oriented, in the mould of Nick Carter-Killmaster.
Spy novels are a genre of fiction closely related to thrillers that specifically include the characters and world of spies, secret agents, and covert operatives. Normally written with the spy hero as the main character, the setting is often within the world of espionage and intrigue, and there is often a lot of tradecraft in the story: dead drops and honey traps
In 2014, his first novel, Red Sparrow (2013), won an Edgar Award for Best First Novel by an American author. [6] Writer and critic Art Taylor praised it in The Washington Post , writing that it "isn't just a fast-paced thriller—it's a first-rate novel as noteworthy for its superior style as for its gripping depiction of a secretive world."