Sunday, August 25, 2013

Cool Spy Stories to Beat the Summer Heat

Baby, it's hot outside! But spies, whether real or fictional, always seem cool, calm, and collected. Here are some thrilling tales of real and imagined espionage from the library catalog to take your mind off the dog days of summer, including, of course, some fun titles regarding everyone's favorite spy, James Bond.



Non-Fiction

Jungleland: A Mysterious Lost City, A WWII Spy, and A True Story of Deadly Adventure by Christopher S. Stewart

Ninja: 1,000 Years of the Shadow Warrior by John Man

The Spy Who Loved: The Secrets and Lives of Christine Granville by Clare Mulley

Agent Garbo: The Brilliant, Eccentric Secret Agent Who Tricked Hitler and Saved D-Day by Stephan Talty


Fiction

Jack 1939 by Francine Mathews

Becoming Clementine by Jennifer Niven [eBook]

The Spymistress by Jennifer Chiaverini

The Titanic Secret by Jack Steel

The Marlowe Papers by Ros Barber

The House of Rumour by Jake Arnott

The Spy Who Jumped Off the Screen by Thomas Caplan

Death of a Citizen by Donald Hamilton [eBook]


James Bond

Best of Bond - James Bond: 50th Anniversary Collection [music CD]

James Bond In The 21st Century: Why We Still Need 007 by Glenn Yeffeth [eBook]

Solo: The New Mission by William Boyd

Bond on Bond: Reflections on 50 Years of James Bond Movies by Roger Moore; with Gareth Owen [eBook]

Sean Connery: A Biography by Christopher Bray  [eBook]

For Your Eyes Only: Ian Fleming + James Bond by Ben Macintyre  [eBook]

For Your Eyes Only: Behind The Scenes of The James Bond Films by David Giammarco



For more espionage fiction, try a subject search of "Spy Stories".  For more espionage non-fiction, try a subject search of "Spies".

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