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.
zlib_text: The Spy Within
  
  
  Meet Abby Banks Book # 2
  
  
    
  
    
  
    
  
  J.A. Cipriano
  
  
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  Chapter 1
  
  Stephen kissed me like it was the last time he’d ever get to do it. He mashed
  his lips against mine, pressing my body against the passenger door of our beat
  up Ford as his hand slid around my waist, unbuckling my seatbelt and pulling
  me against him. His touch was like fire on my skin as his fingers trailed
  upward along my spine.
  
  “Come on, Abby,” he whispered against my lips, his voice sending little
  tingles rippling across my flesh. “Let’s just go…”
  
  “We need supplies,” I whispered back. Pushing him away was very nearly the
  hardest thing I’d ever done. My other ha