I, SPY:
Tales of World War II Espionage
David Aaron
Crossing by Night. Morrow, 1993.
Fictionalized account of Elizabeth Pack, the American wife of a stodgy British
diplomat who was recruited by the British Secret Service to steal the Nazi's
greatest secret-the Enigma machine.
Marvin H. Albert
Operation Lila. Arbor, 1983.
When British intelligence intercepts evidence of Hitler's plans to capture the French fleet at
Toulon, Jonas Ruyter is selected to deliver the proof to the skeptical French admiral. With the
Gestapo and SS on his trail and accompanied by a spirited woman who may or may not be
trustworthy, Ruyter races the clock and the fast approaching panzer divisions.
Ted Allbeury
A Time Without Shadows. Mysterious Press, 1990.
In 1940, Philip Maclean sets up a Resistance network, code-named "Scorpio," in Paris and
through two years of Occupation lives as a Frenchman and marries a French woman, Anne-Marie
Duchard. He is personally ordered by Winston Churchill to abandon all caution and attack the
Nazis, but someone betrays Philip and his entire network to the enemy. Forty years later, MI6
officer Harry Chapman discovers that all records of "Scorpio" were destroyed by a sinister
British intelligence officer in 1945. His investigation into the past uncovers a chilling conspiracy.
John Altman
By the same author: A Game of Spies
(Jove, 2002).
A Gathering of Spies. Putnam, 2000.
Katrerina Heinrich, a Nazi agent as deadly as she is beautiful, is planted in
New York by Germany were she immediately kills an innocent young woman in order
to assume her identity. Her ultimate goal is to obtain atomic bomb secrets.
Back in England elderly Prof. Harry Winterbottom, whose wife is in the hands
of the Nazis, is recruited by MI-5 for "Operation Double Cross," a plan to fool
Germany in regards to the date of the D-Day invasion. The paths of these unlikely
spies will inevitably cross, with the outcome of the war-and the future of the
world-in question.
Evelyn Anthony
Voices on the Wind. Putnam's Sons, 1985.
Kate Alfurd joined the French underground when she was just 19 to help fight the Nazis and to
prepare for the coming Allied landings at Normandy. As D-Day looms, treachery endangers Kate
and her lover, Prosper, a dashing Resistance fighter, and Kate's decisions have tragic
consequences. Years later, she resumes her work as a spy to exact vengeance on the Nazi
lieutenant and French collaborator who betrayed them.
Michael Barak
The Enigma. Morrow, 1978.
Francis de Belvoir, aka "The Baron," an urbane and daring thief has earned the enmity of the
Nazis for having stolen half a ton of gold and smuggled it to England. Now his British captors
offer him his freedom. All he has to do is return to Paris and steal the enigma encoding machine
from the German high command.
Aileen G. Baron
The Torch of Tangier. PP, 2006.
In 1942, archaeologist Lily Sampson is working in Morocco where her mentor,
Prof. Hammond Drury, reveals himself as an OSS agent and involves her in a clandestine
operations perparing for an Allied surprise offensive against Rommel.
Len Deighton
City of Gold. HarCol, 1992.
In 1942, Capt. Bert Cutler, late of the Glasgow police, is summoned to Cairo
to ferret out a clever and elusive spy of Rommel's and plug a leak that is making
the Axis advance towards Cairo unstoppable.
William Diehl
27. Villard, 1990
The Third Reich considers actor Johann Ingersol, a man of a thousand faces whose real visage
few have seen, the perfect spy for a secret mission known as Number 27 destined to change the
course of the war. It falls to Francis Scott Keegan, millionaire playboy and ex-bootegger, driven
by a thirst for revenge after the Nazis murder the woman he loves, to find the man no one has
ever seen and stop a plot no one has ever heard of.
Ken Follett
The Key to Rebecca. Morrow, 1980. Jackdaws. Dutton, 2001.
Eye of the Needle. Arbor, 1978.
A vicious Nazi spy takes refuge from a storm on a Scottish island while on a
mission to thwart the plans for the Allied invasion.
Master spy Alex Wolff's mission is to steal British military plans and send
them to Rommel, using a code whose key is buried in the pages of Daphne du Maurier's
novel Rebecca. On his trail is British officer Major. Vandam, who has
sworn to destroy him.
Remember those World War II yarns where a team of misfits inflitrates enemy
lines to wreck havoc on the enemy? Here's a new twist: as D-Day looms, Felicity
"Flick" Clariet, a British special operations agent, is given the
job must of destroying German lines of communication--with the aid of a all-woman
team.
Mark Frost
Second Objective. Hyperion, 2007.
In a last ditch effort to blunt the advance of the Allied army in the fall of
1944, the Nazis hatch a plot to send 2,000 English-speaking soldiers infiltrate
Allied lines. At the same time, a special force of 20 commandos are assigned
a suicidal second objective: the assassination of Gen. Eisenhower.
Alan Furst Dark Voyage. RH, 2004.
Blood of Victory. RH, 2002.
In the autumn of 1940, Russian émigré journalist I. A. Serebin
is recruited in Istanbul by an agent of the British secret services for a clandestine
operation to sabotage German importation of Romanian oil.
in 1941, E. M. DeHaan, the captain of the Dutch freighter that has been without
a home since the Nazis invaded Holland, takes on several dangerous missions
for the Allies--such a ferrying British commandos to North Africa--disguised
as a neutral Spanish ship. By the same author: The
Polish officer (RH, 1995); The World at
Night (1996);Red Gold (1999);
Kingdom of Shadows (2000)
Michael Gannon
Secret Missions. HarCol, 1994.
In the early months of America's involvement in the war, German agent Peter Krug is sent to
Florida in order to uncover the flight performance data of U.S. warplanes. News of his presence
and mission reaches the ear of Fr. Anthony D'Angelo in the confessional. Unable to reveal what
he knows, Tony realizes that he is the only one who can stop Krug.
J. D. Gilman & John Clive
KG 200. S&S, 1977.
When the pilot of a downed Flying Fortress disappears without a trace, Allied Intelligence
initiates a top-level investigation to solve the mystery. Eventually John Croasdell and Eugene
Vandamme discover Kampfgeschwader 200---the base of a fighting force so secret that
individual units within it are unknown to each other---near a remote mountain lake in occupied
Norway. They are opposed by Major Rolf Warnow, code-name "Telemachus," and a beautiful
double agent working in the British War Office.
Emily Grayson
Night Train to Lisbon. Morrow, 2004.
As the world is poised on the verge of a second global war, Carson Weatherell
falls for a young British physicist who her uncle later informs her is suspected
of spying for the Germans.
W. E. B. Griffin
Men at War series.
In 1941, with America suddenly at war, President Franklin Roosevelt turns to
his law school pal William "Wild Bill" Donovan to create the top-secret
OSS—precursor to the CIA—and man it with the best of the best spies,
saboteurs, and assassins. Donovan, a WWI Medal of Honor recipient, possesses
the rare talent that causes men to eagerly carry out orders they would not accept
from anyone else.
The Last Heroes. GPPS, 1997, 1985.
The Secret Warriors. Pocket, 1985
The Soldier Spies. GPPS, 1999.
The Fighting Agents. GPPS, 2000.
The Saboteurs. GPPS, 2002. (with William E. Butterworth IV)
The Double Agents. GPPS, (with William E. Butterworth IV)
Robert Harris
Enigma. Random, 1995.
Tom Jericho, a brilliant British mathematician working as a member of the team struggling to
crack the Nazi Enigma code, must contend with, the mysterious disappearance of a former
girlfriend, the suspicions of his co-workers within the paranoid high-security project, and the
certainty that someone close to him, perhaps the missing girl, is a Nazi spy.
William Charles Harris
No Enemy But Time. St. Martin's,
2002.
In exchange for guns and money, IRA member Francis Collins agrees to act as
a spy in America for the Germans during World War II. Things go horribly wrong
and Collins "disappears," becoming a member of Savannah, GA, society.
But years later, his past comes back to haunt him.
Jack Higgins
The Eagle Has Landed. S&S, 1975.
In a quiet seaside village in England, a beautiful widow and an IRA assassin set the groundwork
for a disgraced war hero & his commandos to commit the ultimate act of treachery: the kidnaping
of Winston Churchill. Followed by: The Eagles Has Flown. S&S, 1990.
Steven Hunter
The Master Sniper. Morrow, 1980.
Office-bound OSS officer James Leets knows that deep within the Third Reich
one last operation is being planned and that plan involves a master sniper named
Repp, of the Death's Head Division of the Waffen SS. But who is Repp's target?
Leets and his team begin to track the German who knows he is being hunted and
tries to stay one step ahead of them.
Christopher Hyde
The House of Special Purpose. NAL,
2004.
A photographer and a Scotland Yard inspector are assigned to discover the existence
and authenticity of a film depicting the massacre of Tsar Nicholas II and his
family, a film that will change the course of history
Greg Iles
Spandau Phoenix. Penguin, 1994, 1993.
In 1987, soon after a "fake" Rudolph Hess dies in Spandau prison, German police sergeant Hans Apfel accidentally discovers a sheaf of yellow documents amid the rubble of the recently
demolished prison which, when translated reveals a plot begun in 1941 involving Hitler, Hess,
and Nazi sympathizers in the House of Parliament, to kill Churchill and replace him with the
appeasing Duke of Windsor. When word of the existence of the papers gets out (they suggest a
present-day neo-Nazi/South African plan to annihilate Israel) everyone from the KGB to a rogue
Mossad agent race to locate them.
Black Cross. Dutton, 1995.
In 1944, four strangers---an American doctor, a German nurse, a Zionist killer, and a young
Jewish widow---are sent on a deadly mission to an SS-run concentration camp serving as the incubator
for a weapon of staggering lethality.
Susan Isaacs
Shining Through. H&R, 1988.
For Queen's, NY, secretary Linda Voss all of her dreams seem to come true when she marries her boss, but
their union is rocked by his unfaithfulness. But this ordinary working girl emerges from WWII a
bona fide hero after she joins the war effort as a spy.
Joseph Kanon
Los Alamos. Broadway, 1997.
As work on the first atomic bomb nears completion, a German-born Manhattan Project security
officer, is murdered under unusual circumstances. Intelligence Former Michael Connelly is
brought in to find out whether the murder had anything to do with an attempt to steal atom bomb
secrets--and then make the case disappear. But he soon discovers that investigating a murder in
Los Alamos, a town so secret it does not officially exist, is anything but routine.
Philip Kerr
Hitler's Peace. GPPS, 2005.
With the chances of Germany winning the war unlikely following its failures
on the Eastern Front, a former Princeton professor working for the OSS--who
was once a member of Germany's military intelligence service--thinks he has
discovered a plot to kill Roosevelt, Stalin and Churchill as they meet at a
secret summit in Tehran.
John Lawton
Bluffing Mr. Churchill. Atlantic
Monthly, 2004, 2001.
During the blitz, aristocratic policeman Freddie Troy is drawn into the search
for Wolfgang Stahl, an American spy operating undercover as an SS officer, who
has just fled Germany with the blueprint of the Führer’s secret plan
to invade Russia.
Robert Ludlum
The Rhinemann Exchange. Dial, 1974.
In 1943 Buenos Aires, German & American meet to make the most sinister and
terrifying deal ever made between two nations at war. Caught in the middle is
American agent David Spaulding, who becomes the only man who can save the world
from the horrible truth of the "Rhinemann Exchange."
By the same author: The Tristan Betrayal (St. Martin's, 2003)
Helen MacInness
Assignment in Brittany. Colline, 1966.
Above Suspicion. HBJ, 1969, 1941.
Indeed they are "above suspicion," for who would suspect that the dignified Oxford don and his
lovely wife are spies. Their vacation in Europe on the eve of WWII is the perfect cover for a
dangerous mission that has already cost the lives of skilled British agents. But someone betrays
them, and suddenly they are plunged into the world of deadly danger.
Martin Hearne, a British officer impersonating a Frenchman to whom he bears a remarkable
resemblance, attempts to locate the Nazi plans for defending against the upcoming Allied
invasion.
David Poyer
The Only Thing to Fear. Tor, 1996.
In 1945 young naval hero John F. Kennedy is assigned a secret mission to protect
Franklin D. Roosevelt from an assassination plot that will implicate the Russians,
split the Allies and draw America into fighting the Soviets along with the Third
Reich.
Joel Ross
Double Cross Blind. Doubleday, 2005.
In the days before the attack on Pearl Harbor, a wounded and shell-shocked Tom
Wall awakens to find himself locked in a British military asylum after his brother,
Earl, an OAS operative, betrayed the Canadian infantry unit he was serving with
in Crete to the Nazis. A British intelligence officer persuades Tom to pose
as his brother in order to trick a captured German spy into revealing information
about the upcoming attack against the U.S.
Daniel Silva
The Unlikely Spy. Villard, 1996.
In 1943 London, a mild-mannered academic and friend of Churchill is drafted into MI5 to help
break the most crucial intelligence case of World War II: the existence of a Nazi spy ring in
England dedicated to uncovering D-Day invasion plans.
Dan Simmons
The Crook Factory. Avon, 1999.
A fictionalized account of the counterespionage operation set up in Cuba by Ernest Hemingway
during World War II--with operatives such as fishing buddies, waiters, and prostitutes-for the
purpose of snagging Nazi infiltrators.
James Stewart Thayer
Pursuit. Crown, 1986.
Believing that only the death of FDR can save Nazi Germany, Hitler hatches a plan for a German
POW in a camp near Seattle, WA, to slip away undetected to carry out the murder. But the
escape is not perfect and soon the assassin's trail is picked up by a U. S. Secret Service agent
named John Wren. The manhunt is on!
William R. Trotter
Winter Fire. Dutton, 1993.
In 1941, Erich Ziegler, a young symphonic conductor before the war, is sent as a special agent to
Finland to win the trust of the Finns, investigate where their sympathies lie, and seduce them into
becoming partners in the Nazi onslaught against Russia. But when he encounters the composer
Sibelius and the timeless beauty of his music, it is Ziegler--now far away from the nightmare of
violence that had turned him into the ruthless type of Nazi he once professed to despise---who is
seduced by the timeless beauty of the master composer's music. Although it is only a matter of
time before he runs afoul of the Nazi hierarchy, Ziegler becomes obsessed with possessing
Sibelius's Eighth Symphony.
Robert Wilson
The Company of Strangers. Harcourt,
2001.
Mathematics whiz Andrea Aspinalt is recurited by the British Secret Service
to discover the advances thatthe Germans have made in atomic and rocket technology.
Her haunting experiences will follow her through to the Cold War.
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