12/18/2022 0 Comments Books about secret agents![]() ![]() The Spymistress : a novel by Jennifer Chiaverini Intelligence agent Maddie James and her colleagues unsuccessfully convey an impending terrorist threat to an election-minded administration focused on stressing its victories and wrongly blaming an adversarial nation.ĭescriptors: Fast-paced, darkly humorous, plot-driven and suspenseful Intelligence: A Novel of the CIA by Susan Hasler ![]() ![]() Clair, an American college girl banished from her family, arrives in London to find out what happened to her beloved cousin Rose, who disappeared in Nazi-occupied France during the war, and meets a former spy who, torn apart by betrayal, agrees to help her on her mission.ĭescriptors: Parallel narratives, authentic/flawed characters, compelling, descriptive and wittyĪ remarkable story of friendship and courage centered around three women and a ring of female secret agents during World War II.ĭescriptors: Fast-paced, gripping and suspenseful The Prisoner in the Castle by Susan Elia MacNealĮxiled on a remote Scottish island with other SOE agents, World War II codebreaker Maggie Hope searches for a killer among her fellow spies when they begin to drop off one by one.ĭescriptors: Historical mysteries, atmospheric, fast-paced, richly detailed and suspenseful “When her name and telephone number are found in the pocket of an elderly man who died in a small Chicago boarding house, single mother Ellie Foreman tries to find out what her connection is with the deceased, an investigation that leads deep into the heart of a mystery with roots more than fifty years in the past and to secrets hidden in the heart of Chicago’s Jewish community.” ~ Description from NovelistĪfter being recruited by the CIA to work undercover in Argentina, radio host Vera Kelly becomes close to a group of student activists, but, after a betrayal, she is left stranded and must take extreme measures to escape.Īn ex-agent on the run from her former employers must take one more case to clear her name and save her life. Novice private investigator Kate Morgan teams up with a European financier who is investigating a centuries-old manuscript that documents the final days of an Elizabethan-era murder victim.ĭescriptors: Parallel narratives and Adult books for young adultsĪn Eye for Murder by Libby Fischer Hellmann Unable to forget the men who brutally ended her military career, former special forces soldier Charlie Fox finds herself on a mission to the Iraqi countryside amid suspicions that her boss may be pursuing a twisted vendetta on her behalf.ĭescriptors: Action-packed, compelling, fast-paced, intricately plotted and richly detailed ![]() Liz Carlyle and Peggy Kinsolving uncover a Russian plot to undermine the German government and travel from Montreal to Moscow in order to stop them.ĭescriptors: Atmospheric, plot-driven and richly detailed Enjoy! Women Spies in Fiction The Moscow Sleepers by Stella Rimington The stories are full of intrigue, espionage and thrilling edge of your seat storytelling at its best. In England, anarchism was associated with the immigrant neighborhoods of London’s Soho district and was a subject of debate in mainstream periodicals like Blackwood’s Magazine, which also serialized a number of Conrad’s writings.In celebration of Women’s History Month, we pulled together a wonderful sampling of spy novels written by women featuring female spies. The Greenwich Observatory incident, along with the high-profile assassinations of figures like United States President William McKinley, had already brought anarchism into the popular consciousness. After discussing this incident-which he called “a blood-stained inanity”-with the writer Ford Madox Ford, Conrad based the character of Stevie on Bourdin. Bourdin’s motives and target were unclear, but it appears that he intended to bomb the Greenwich Observatory. In 1894, a revolutionary French anarchist named Martial Bourdin attempted to carry out a bombing in London, but his explosives went off prematurely, killing him. Others, like Michaelis (who may have been based on the Russian philosopher Peter Kropotkin) reject violent measures, instead focusing on helping society evolve to adopt an economic system based on mutual cooperation and aid. A range of anarchist perspectives is reflected in The Secret Agent: some, like The Professor, favor violent revolutionary tactics. Anarchism is an umbrella term for political philosophies and movements that reject hierarchical authority and typically seek to abolish the state it is also associated with anti-capitalist and libertarian socialist thought. ![]()
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