This weekend marks a year since I self-published Spycrabs & Warbirds, a collection of espionage/war stories set around a paranormal quarantine zone in pre-WW1 Ireland.

If this sounds like your sort of thing, have a mosey on over here to find it:

https://aceade.net/connacht-disaster-zone/spycrabs-warbirds/

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The Chinese Visitor (1965), James Eastwood’s first Anna Zordan spy novel. It belongs to the sexy lady spy sub-genre. Anna is an expert seductress which is useful although she can certainly handle herself in other situations. Good fun.

My review: https://vintagepopfictions.blogspot.com/2023/08/james-eastwoods-chinese-visitor.html

#pulpfiction #spies #spynovel #spynovels #spyfiction #spythriller #spythrillers #ladyspies #AnnaZordan

Kenneth Royce’s 1970 spy novel The XYY Man is about a cat burglar recruited as a spy but with an interesting psychiatric twist. He can't help being a thief. Gritty, action-packed with a serious edge and highly entertaining. Highly recommended.

My review: https://vintagepopfictions.blogspot.com/2023/08/kenneth-royces-xyy-man.html

#spies #spyfiction #spynovel #spynovels #KennethRoyce #spythriller #spythrillers

The Black Pearl (Modesty Blaise) collects four of 1960s Modesty Blaise comic-strip adventures by Peter O’Donnell. If you only know the novels you really should check out the comics. Fun exciting stylish slightly sexy comics for grown-ups.

My review: https://vintagepopfictions.blogspot.com/2023/07/the-black-pearl-modesty-blaise.html

#spies #spyfiction #comics #graphicnovel #graphicnovels #PeterODonnell #ModestyBlaise

The Bright Blue Death, a 1967 Nick Carter Killmaster spy novel. There are super-lasers and a dead scientist who has turned blue, literally. There's a splendid crazy bad girl and a fine kinky megalomaniac villain. Great pulp spy thriller stuff.

My review: https://vintagepopfictions.blogspot.com/2023/07/nick-carter-bright-blue-death.html

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SO relieved to be putting the final touches this weekend on the rewrite of my novel, "Secondary Objectives." What if John Le Carré wrote "The Expanse"?
My book is an spy/military scifi novel in which Ash Revera, a damaged war hero, leads a team to explore the wreck of an enemy warship. Turns out, the warship isn't dead, and what she finds there will make her choose between her duty and her honor. her honor. #wip #scifi #militaryscifi #sciencefiction #spyfiction #espionage #spaceopera #sff

I, Lucifer (1967), the third of Peter O’Donnell’s superb Modesty Blaise novels. Modesty finds herself up against Lucifer, a disturbed young man with unusual powers. He thinks he is Lucifer. The novel is clever, witty and great fun.

My review: https://vintagepopfictions.blogspot.com/2023/06/peter-odonnells-i-lucifer-modesty.html

#spies #spynovel #spynovels #spyfiction #PeterODonnell #ModestyBlaise

E. Howard Hunt, Watergate conspirator and CIA agent, wrote many excellent hardboiled crime and spy novels. As David St John he wrote Diabolus in 1971. A hugely enjoyable lurid occult/spy thriller featuring drugs, satanic cults and sex orgies.

My review: https://vintagepopfictions.blogspot.com/2023/05/e-howard-hunts-diabolus.html

#spynovel #spynovels #spies #spyfiction #occultthriller #occultthrillers #EHowardHunt #pulpfiction

Francis Durbridge's The World of Tim Frazer is a 1962 spy novel based on his 1960-61 TV serial (which sadly has not survived). A very ordinary man gets mixed up in the murky world of espionage, just the sort of thing Durbridge did very well.

My review: https://vintagepopfictions.blogspot.com/2018/10/francis-durbridges-world-of-tim-frazer.html

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Mickey Spillane’s 1967 spy thriller The Delta Factor. A thief is forced to do a job for the government, breaking a scientist out of an impregnable 17th century fortress. He also wants revenge. Fun, and more lighthearted than his Hammer books.

My review: https://vintagepopfictions.blogspot.com/2023/04/mickey-spillanes-delta-factor.html

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Hammerhead (AKA Shockwave), a violent action-packed 1963 Johnny Fedora spy thriller by Desmond Cory. Fedora, a ruthless British spy with a licence to kill, was created in 1951, a year before Bond.

My review: https://vintagepopfictions.blogspot.com/2023/04/desmond-corys-hammerhead.html

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Dead Duck is an original 1966 novel inspired by the TV series The Avengers. It was credited to Patrick Macnee but was written by Peter Leslie. People keep dying and they've all eaten duck. An engagingly offbeat story with a fine crazy finale.

My review: https://cult-tv-lounge.blogspot.com/2023/04/patrick-macnees-dead-duck-avengers-tie.html

#culttv #retrotv #vintagetv #spytv #spies #TheAvengers #PatrickMacnee #tvtieinnovels #spyfiction #spynovel #spynovels

A.S. Fleischman's 1953 spy thriller Danger in Paradise. An American in Bali is handed a package by a girl. She is killed, except that that's not possible.

Excitement, intrigue, dangerous sexy women, romance and a very solid plot. Great stuff.

My review: https://vintagepopfictions.blogspot.com/2023/03/as-fleischmans-danger-in-paradise.html

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John Flagg's spy novel The Lady and the Cheetah (1951). A reporter finds himself suddenly famous, and is offered a job by a countess, to retrieve some letters. The job is not so simple.

A clever plot, the ending is good and there is indeed a cheetah. Her name is Iris and she plays an important role in the story.

My review: https://vintagepopfictions.blogspot.com/2023/02/john-flaggs-lady-and-cheetah.html

#spynovel #spynovels #spyfiction #spies #thrillers #vintage thrillers #JohnFlagg

Len Deighton’s Horse Under Water (1963), the second unnamed spy novel, with typical Deighton labyrinthine plot twists. A cache of counterfeit money has to be retrieved from a sunken German U-boat, but not even the unnamed spy's boss knows what the real mission is. Great stuff.

My review: https://vintagepopfictions.blogspot.com/2014/01/len-deightons-horse-under-water.html

#spynovel #spynovels #spyfiction #spies #vintage thriller #vintage thrillers #Len Deighton

John Flagg's Death and the Naked Lady is a 1951 spy novel starts when the hero finds the jade owls in his luggage. They're not his and they're going to lead to trouble. Plus there are three femmes fatales to deal with.

Fast-paced and enjoyable with a nicely devious plot.

My review: https://vintagepopfictions.blogspot.com/2023/02/john-flaggs-death-and-naked-lady.html

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Tong in Cheek (1973), 2nd of Gardner Francis Fox’s Cherry Delight sexy spy thrillers written under the name Glen Chase.

Cherry is a secret agent working for N.Y.M.P.H.O., a shadowy top-secret US government agency.

This time she is up against an alliance between the Mafia and Chinese tongs.

If spy sleaze is your thing you’ll enjoy it.

My review: https://vintagepopfictions.blogspot.com/2023/01/tong-in-cheek-cherry-delight-2.html

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The Towers of Silence (1966), the second Peter Ward spy novel by E. Howard Hunt (of Watergate fame).

Peter Ward is investigating the death of a CIA agent in India.

Ward is a realistic kind of spy who relies on tradecraft rather than instinct. He's a hard-headed professional, ruthless, unromantic.

A good spy thriller.

My review: https://vintagepopfictions.blogspot.com/2023/01/e-howard-hunts-towers-of-silence.html

#spythrillers #spythriller #spynovel #spyfiction #EHowardHunt #spies #espionage