Billion-Dollar Brain is a 1966 Cold War spy novel by Len Deighton. It was the fourth to feature an unnamed secret agent working for the British WOOC(P) intelligence agency. It follows The IPCRESS File (1962), Horse Under Water (1963), and Funeral in Berlin (1964). As in most of Deighton's novels, the plot of Billion Dollar Brain (1967) is intricate, with many dead ends.
From Russia, with Love is the fifth novel by the English author Ian Fleming to feature his fictional British Secret Service agent James Bond. Fleming wrote the story in early 1956 at his Goldeneye estate in Jamaica; at the time he thought it might be his final Bond book. The novel was first published in the United Kingdom by Jonathan Cape on 8 April 1957.
Captain Sir Mansfield George Smith-Cumming was a British naval officer who served as the first chief of the Secret Intelligence Service (SIS).
Sidney George Reilly —known as "Ace of Spies"—was a Russian-born adventurer and secret agent employed by Scotland Yard's Special Branch and later by the Foreign Section of the British Secret Service Bureau, the precursor to the modern British Secret Intelligence Service (MI6/SIS). He is alleged to have spied for at least four different great powers, and documentary evidence indicates that he was involved in espionage activities in 1890s London among Russian émigré circles, in Manchuria on the eve of the Russo-Japanese War (1904–05), and in an abortive 1918 coup d'état against Vladimir Lenin's Bolshevik government in Moscow.
Live and Let Die is the second novel in Ian Fleming's James Bond series of stories. Set in London, the United States and Jamaica, it was first published in the UK by Jonathan Cape on 5 April 1954. Fleming wrote the novel at his Goldeneye estate in Jamaica before his first book, Casino Royale, was published; much of the background came from Fleming's travel in the US and knowledge of Jamaica.
Diplomatic Courier is a 1952 spy film noir directed by Henry Hathaway and starring Tyrone Power, Patricia Neal and Stephen McNally. The nightclub scene in the film features actor Arthur Blake, famous for his female impersonations, impersonating Carmen Miranda, Bette Davis, and Franklin D. Roosevelt. The plot was loosely adapted from the 1945 novel Sinister Errand by British writer Peter Cheyney.
The Curse of Doone is a 1928 mystery thriller novel by the British writer Sydney Horler. It also has element of horror about it. It was published in America in 1930 by The Mystery League.
I'll Say She Does is a 1945 thriller novel by the British writer Peter Cheyney. It is the tenth in his series of novels featuring the FBI agent Lemmy Caution. Later editions of the book are generally titled I'll Say She Does!
Dark Bahama is a 1950 thriller novel by the British writer Peter Cheyney. It was the second in a trilogy featuring the private detective Johnny Vallon, a hard-drinking former army officer. The story also features Quale, the head of British intelligence who appears on several other novels by Cheyney. Much of the action takes place in a fictional island in the Bahamas and nearby Miami in Florida.
Dark Interlude is a 1947 spy thriller novel by the British writer Peter Cheyney. If features a British secret agent Shaun Aloysius O'Mara and his superior Quale, a recurring figure in Cheyney's novels.
Dark Duet is a 1942 spy thriller novel by the British writer Peter Cheyney. Cheyney had become known for his hardboiled crime thrillers featuring Lemmy Caution and Slim Callaghan, but this novel was his first fully-fledged espionage novel. The novel is set in wartime London, Lisbon and Ireland. It was published in the United States with the alternative title The Counterspy Murders.
The Dark Street is a 1944 thriller novel by the British writer Peter Cheyney. It was published in the United States by Dodd, Mead with the alternative title of The Dark Street Murders. It follows on from both the 1942 novel Dark Duet and the 1943 novel The Stars Are Dark and features his recurring head of British counter intelligence Quale as well as the spy Shaun O'Mara. It begins in wartime occupied Paris before moving to London.
The Stars Are Dark is a 1943 spy thriller novel by the British writer Peter Cheyney. It was published in America with the alternative title The London Spy Murders. It follows on from the 1942 novel Dark Duet focusing on British counter intelligence operations during the Second World War, and introduces the character of Quale a senior British intelligence officer would appear in several novels.
Sinister Errand is a 1945 spy thriller novel by the British writer Peter Cheyney. Cheyney known for his creations Lemmy Caution and Slim Callaghan, introduced a new character the half-American secret agent Michael Kells. It was followed by a sequel Ladies Won't Wait in 1951.
Up the Ladder of Gold is a 1931 thriller novel by the British writer E. Phillips Oppenheim. He dedicated the work to the comedy writer P.G. Wodehouse. It represented the apex of Oppenheim's portrayal of the great man as a dynamic force.
A Lost Leader is a 1906 politically-themed novel by the British writer E. Phillips Oppenheim. Later better known for his thrillers it was one of several novels Oppenheim wrote at the time centred on "social political life". In it a potential Liberal Party politician, Lawrence Mannering, is lured back from his country estate to London to revive the party's fortunes.
Mysterious Mr. Sabin is a 1898 spy thriller novel by the British writer E. Phillips Oppenheim. It was the first spy novel by Oppenheim, a genre which he came to dominate during the First World War and interwar era. Revolving around a plot of a Frenchman selling British military secrets it became a bestseller, establishing him as a popular writer. It has been described as the novel "that launched Oppenheim's career of xenophobic espionage fantasy". It contains elements of invasion fiction, a common genre theme at the time.
The Stone Roses is a 1959 spy thriller novel by the British writer Sarah Gainham. It is set in Prague shortly after the Communist coup in Czechoslovakia.
The Whip Hand is a 1965 spy novel by the British writer Victor Canning. It is the first in a series of four novels about Rex Carver, a private detective drawn back into his old profession of espionage. The novel also features the secret service agent Manston who had previously appeared in The Limbo Line, Canning's previous novel.
Doubled in Diamonds is a 1966 spy thriller novel by the British Victor Canning. It is the second in a series of four novels about Rex Carver, a private detective drawn back into his old profession of espionage.
