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Paul Chavasse is a fictional character created by British author Jack Higgins. Chavasse works for The Bureau as an agent. The Bureau is a secret department of British Intelligence, which is disguised as a London import/export company. Chavasse is half-English, half-French and is multilingual.
Sean Dillon is a fictional character featured in a series of spy fiction novels by English author Jack Higgins. Dillon is an Irishman whose father was killed in crossfire between the IRA and the British, leading him to become an IRA member himself. He is a top-notch gunman, actor and a master of disguise.
Kirk McGarvey is a fictional character and techno-thriller series created by American novelist David Hagberg. McGarvey was a CIA agent who was trained to fight communism at all costs. During the Carter administration, he was forced into retirement in favour of a kinder, gentler bureau. Now he is in his mid-40s, helping run a bookstore […]
David Hagberg is an American novelist who writes techno-thrillers. Some consider him to be a cross between Tom Clancy and Ian Fleming. His main series features spy Kirk McGarvey, who tracked Obama bin Laden down in urban Pakistan long before it was done in real life, and shot him in the head. Hagberg co-authored a […]
Tom Clancy is an American author who is best known for his Jack Ryan novels such as The Hunt for Red October, Rainbow Six, Clear and Present Danger and The Sum of All Fears. Clancy’s novels have been adapted into several movies and also video games. The majority of Clancy’s novels are in the Jack […]
Alex Rider is a series of young adult novels by English author Anthony Horowitz featuring a 14 year-old spy. The first book in the series, Stormbreaker, was made into a movie in 2006 that starred Alex Pettyfer (pictured above). There is also a video game based on the movie for Nintendo DS and Game Boy […]
The Jack McClure/Alli Carson books are a spy fiction series by American novelist Eric Van Lustbader. The books feature ATF agent Jack McClure and Alli Carson, daughter of President-elect Edward Carson.
American author Raymond Benson was a controversial choice when he was chosen by Glidrose Publications to take over as the official author of the James Bond series – a title he held from 1997 until 2003 – due to the fact that he was American rather than British. In that time, Benson wrote 12 James […]
English author John Gardner took the reins of the James Bond series long after the death of series creator Ian Fleming. Gardner is actually the most prolific of the Bond authors, having contributed 16 novels to the series (including two novelizations).
British author Ian Fleming is the creator of the fictional British spy James Bond – a series he wrote from 1953 until his death in 1964. Fleming is responsible for 12 novels and 9 short stories featuring the James Bond character. The James Bond book series would go on to become one of the greatest […]