Coming from a former British national newspaper journalist, Rory Clements (author of the John Shakespeare series), the John Shakespeare thrillers are historical spy novels. The series is set in the years leading up to and during World War II, and follows the adventures of a Cambridge professor and secret agent for the British government named…
Originally, Cassiopeia Vitt started as a supporting character in the Cotton Malone series before having her own adventures written by Steve Berry and M.J. Rose. And for good reason as Cassiopeia is an adventurer in her own right. The only heir to a very wealthy father, Cassiopeia Vitt is a woman of many talents, being…
Written by American writer and aviator Dale Brown, the Patrick McLanahan series is an aviation techno-thriller series. The story is about Patrick McLanahan, a US Air Force officer fighting to defend the USA against enemy forces. As the years and the successful missions accumulated, Patrick starts taking control of the missions, developing new teams and…
The main protagonist in the Andy McNab written series, Nick Stone, is an ex-member of the British Army regiment the SAS. After a difficult youth, Nick Stone signed up for the Army and was eventually recruited into the SAS. Troubling events and violent public deaths pushed him out of the British Army, but not out…
A former Navy SEAL, Jack Carr is now a #1 New York Times bestselling author with his spy thrillers in the vein of Brad Thor’s books (or Mark Greaney’s series) and the writer of what is known as the Terminal List series. He’s writing the dangerous adventures of James Reece, a former Navy SEAL who…
Harry Palmer is one of the most British famous spies, next to James Bond and George Smiley, though he is not always named Harry Palmer. To be exact, the character is unnamed in Len Deighton’s books but the production team for the 1965 film The Ipcress File, based on the novel of the same name,…
Coming from British author Robert Muchamore, CHERUB is a popular series of teenage spy novels about a fictional division of the British Security Service called… CHERUB. CHERUB agents are aged between ten and seventeen. They live in the real world, slipping under adult radar and getting information that sends criminals and terrorists to jail. How…
Alan Furst is an American author of historical spy novels, born in New York in 1941. A graduate of Oberlin College in 1960 and from Penn State in 1967, Furst worked in advertising and wrote magazine articles before becoming a full-time writer. His first published books didn’t spark a big interest among readers, achieving limited…
Written by American author Alan Furst, the Night Soldiers novels are espionage thrillers taking place in Europe, starting in the 1930s and through World War II. Those are realistic stories of (mostly) reluctant heroes in wartime, an exploration of the multiple resistance movements all over Europe, from occupied Paris to London, from the front to…
Written by prolific American author Nelson DeMille, this action/suspense series is about a retired cop John Corey who starts working for the FBI to track down terrorists. John Corey is indeed a former homicide detective. He is medically retired from the NYPD with 3 gunshot wounds. He ended up in Long Island where his career…
In truth, this is not really some pure Clancy goodness. Tom Clancy’s Op-Center is a series created by Tom Clancy and Steve Pieczenik. They didn’t even write the novels. The first 12 books were written by Jeff Rovin. Then in 2014, the series got rebooted by Dick Couch and George Galdorisi. The series talks about…
Written by British author and ex-cop Robert White, The Rich Fuller series is about a SAS hero who turns into a Manchester hit-man with a vengeance. Rick Fuller, a once decorated SAS hero, is now a Manchester hit-man who likes nothing better than disposing of his employer’s rivals in return for a suitcase of cash….
