title: Spy Fiction: A Connoisseur's Guide
author:  Donald McCormick 
description: McCormick--the prolific author of spy fiction (under the name Richard Deacon) and of Who's Who in Spy Fiction (LJ 9/15/77)--and Fletcher--also well versed in the genre--have the credentials to attempt one of the few overviews of the spy fiction genre. Their compilation of 225 authors (mostly American and British) supplies biographical, bibliographical, and critical information on each author. Their informative essays attempt to create some structure to the genre. The weaknessnes, however, are the source of critical information (the author her/himself); the admitted lack of comprehensiveness; and use of real names rather than better-known pen names to list authors, although the index cross-references pen names to real names.<br /><i>- Martin J. Hudacs, Towanda H.S., Pa.</i><br />Copyright 1990 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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  THE ACCIDENTAL SPY
  
  
  Copyright © 2020 by Tom Rattray
  
  
  Published by Patriot Press, an Imprint of Lilliput Press, Dayton, OH
  
  
  [www.LilliputPressllc.com](http://www.LilliputPressllc.com)
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
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  Name: Rattray, Tom, author
  
  
  Title: the accidental spy / by Tom Rattray; edited by Linore Burkard
  
  
  Description: Previously published as Mayday: USA, 2016
  
  
  Summary: A simple pleasure sail leads to one man's accidental discovery of a
  threat to the United States.
  
  
  
  
  
  Identifiers: Library of Congress Control Number: 2020904296
  
  
  ISBN : 978-1-7333111-3-7 (print) / ISBN: 978-1-7333111-5-1 (epub) /
  
  
  Subjects: 1. Fiction—Christian 2.Fiction—Mystery and Su