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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  Bound to a Spy is a work of fiction. Names, places, and incidents either are
  products of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance
  to actual events, locales, or persons, living or dead, is entirely
  coincidental.
  
  A Loveswept Ebook Original
  
  Copyright © 2017 by Sharon Cullen
  
  Excerpt from Lost to a Spy by Sharon Cullen copyright © 2017 by Sharon Cullen
  
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  This book contains an excerpt from the forthcoming book Lost to a Spy by
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