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"A Divided Spy" is a 2016 spy novel by British author Charles Cumming and the third installment in the Thomas Kell series. The plot follows former MI6 officer Thomas Kell as he is drawn out of retirement to investigate a potential terrorist threat in Britain. His operation becomes complicated when h...

A Foreign Country is a spy novel written by Scottish author Charles Cumming, published in 2012. The narrative follows Thomas Kell, a disgraced former MI6 officer who is brought out of forced retirement to investigate the disappearance of the intelligence agency's incoming chief. The story incorporat...

The 2011 film Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy adapts John le Carré’s classic Cold War thriller about a British intelligence officer investigating a suspected mole within MI6. Gary Oldman portrays George Smiley as he navigates a complex web of deception and betrayal during the height of the Soviet threat....

A Colder War is a spy novel by British author Charles Cumming and the second book centered on former MI6 officer Thomas Kell. The story follows Kell as he investigates the death of a British intelligence chief and indications that Western operations in the Middle East have been compromised by a high...

The Sandbaggers is a 1978–1980 British spy drama created by Ian Mackintosh for ITV Yorkshire, critically admired for its unglamorous and procedurally realistic portrayal of British intelligence operations.

Scorpia is a young adult spy novel written by British author Anthony Horowitz and published in 2004. It is the fifth installment in the Alex Rider series, following a teenage boy who works as a spy for MI6. The novel introduces the fictional criminal organization Scorpia, which recruits Alex followi...

"A Spy by Nature" is a 2001 espionage novel by Scottish author Charles Cumming that introduces the recurring protagonist Alec Milius. The story follows Milius, an aspiring but flawed spy, as he is recruited into a deceptive world of industrial espionage targeting a rival oil company. The narrative e...

Point Blanc is a young adult spy novel by British author Anthony Horowitz, first published in 2000. It is the second book in the Alex Rider series, which follows the adventures of a teenage spy recruited by MI6. In this installment, Alex is sent undercover to Point Blanc, a remote boarding school in...

Forever and a Day is a 2018 James Bond novel by British author Anthony Horowitz, commissioned by the Ian Fleming estate as an official continuation novel. It serves as a prequel to Ian Fleming's first Bond novel, Casino Royale, depicting Bond's initial mission leading to his promotion to 00 status....

Eagle Strike is a 2003 spy novel by British author Anthony Horowitz, the fourth book in the Alex Rider series aimed at young adult readers. The series follows Alex Rider, a teenager recruited by British intelligence. In Eagle Strike, Alex investigates the activities of a wealthy philanthropist conne...

With a Mind to Kill is a 2022 James Bond continuation novel by Anthony Horowitz, his third contribution to the series following Trigger Mortis (2015) and Forever and a Day (2018). Set after the events of Ian Fleming's The Man with the Golden Gun, the novel sends Bond into the Soviet Union on a missi...

Trigger Mortis is a 2015 James Bond continuation novel written by British author Anthony Horowitz. The narrative is set in the 1950s and picks up shortly after the events of Ian Fleming's original novel Goldfinger. It is distinct among continuation novels for incorporating original, previously unpub...

Ark Angel is the sixth novel in the popular young adult spy series Alex Rider, written by British author Anthony Horowitz and published in 2005. The story follows teenage spy Alex Rider as he uncovers a plot involving a billionaire's environmental space hotel project, which serves as a front for a s...

Solo is a 2013 James Bond continuation novel by British author William Boyd, written with authorization from the Ian Fleming estate. Set in 1969, it sends Bond to the fictional West African country of Zanzarim during a civil war, initially on a mission intended to end the conflict. The novel uses Fl...

Devil May Care is a 2008 spy novel written by British author Sebastian Faulks, writing under the pseudonym "Sebastian Faulks writing as Ian Fleming." Commissioned by the Ian Fleming estate to commemorate the centenary of Fleming's birth, the book is an official continuation of the James Bond series....

Atomic Blonde is a 2017 action spy film directed by David Leitch and adapted from the graphic novel The Coldest City by Antony Johnston and Sam Hart. Charlize Theron plays Lorraine Broughton, a British MI6 agent sent to Berlin in 1989 to recover intelligence and identify a compromised contact amid t...

Deep State is a British espionage thriller television series created by Matthew Parkhill and Simon Maxwell. It first aired on Fox in 2018 and begins with Mark Strong playing Max Easton, a former MI6 field agent who is drawn back into covert operations. The two-season series deals with intelligence s...

Licence Renewed is a James Bond novel by John Gardner, first published in 1981. It was the first original Bond continuation novel published after Ian Fleming's death and presents a new mission for MI6 agent James Bond outside Fleming's own series of novels. The title signals the book's role in resta...

Zero Minus Ten is Raymond Benson's first James Bond novel, published in the United Kingdom in April 1997 and in the United States in May of that year. The story places Bond in Hong Kong during the period surrounding the territory's transfer to Chinese sovereignty on 1 July 1997. Its plot combines an...

Our Kind of Traitor is a 2016 British spy thriller directed by Susanna White and adapted from John le Carré's novel. Ewan McGregor and Naomie Harris play a British couple who meet Dima, a Russian money launderer portrayed by Stellan Skarsgård, while on holiday. Dima asks them to carry information to...

Nobody Lives for Ever is a 1986 James Bond continuation novel by John Gardner. Its plot begins after SPECTRE places a bounty on Bond's head, while his enemies use M and people close to him as bait in an effort to draw him into danger. The book belongs to the post-Fleming Bond novel line and is inten...

The Facts of Death is a James Bond continuation novel by Raymond Benson, published in 1998. The story sends British agent James Bond to Greece to investigate murders connected with a neo-Pythagorean extremist organization. Its plot combines espionage with biological-weapons threats, placing Bond in...

For Special Services is a James Bond continuation novel by John Gardner, published in 1982. The story brings the criminal organization SPECTRE back into the Bond series under new leadership and sends British agent James Bond into a conflict involving the organization and its plans. The novel also in...

Treason is a British political and espionage thriller released by Netflix in 2022. It was created and written by Matt Charman and stars Charlie Cox as Adam Lawrence, an MI6 officer whose sudden rise within the service is disrupted by links to a Russian operative from his past. The limited series fol...

Role of Honour is a James Bond continuation novel by John Gardner, published in 1984. In the story, Bond presents himself as a defector in order to infiltrate a criminal organization led by a concealed figure whose plans involve nuclear weapons. The novel uses the established espionage framework of...

The Looking Glass War is a 1969 British spy film adapted from John le Carré’s 1965 novel of the same name. It follows an aging intelligence organization that sends a Polish defector into East Germany, despite uncertainty about the mission and the reliability of the information behind it. The film pr...

Octopussy and The Living Daylights is a posthumously published collection of two James Bond short stories by Ian Fleming. The book contains the title story, which concerns a wartime secret and an act of revenge, and “The Living Daylights,” which follows Bond during an operation involving a sniper an...