The big book of espionage

Summary: Edgar Award-winning editor Otto Penzler is back with an anthology that has gathered the intel on the world's greatest secret agents, declassified in these pages for the first time. State secrets. Double agents. Leaks. Otto Penzler brings you all this and more with his latest title in the Big Book series. No need to wait for the government to release redacted information; Otto is ready to declassify confidential matters.

Record details

ISBN: 1984898051
ISBN: 9781984898050
Physical Description: xiii, 817 pages ; 24 cm.
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Publisher: New York : Vintage Crime/Black Lizard/Vintage Books, a division of Penguin Random House LLC, 2020.
Copyright: ©2020

Content descriptions

General Note:

"The most complete compendium of double agents, dead drops, and duplicitious deeds ever collected"--Cover.

Two columns to the page.

Formatted Contents Note:

The hairless Mexican / W. Somerset Maugham -- Somewhere in France / Richard Harding Davis -- Gas attack! / Marthe McKenna -- The loathly opposite / John Buchan -- A source of irritation / Stacy Aumonier -- A patriot / John Galsworthy -- Judith / C.E. Montague -- Peiffer / A.E.W. Mason -- The Donvers case / E. Phillips Oppenheim -- Georgette--a spy / Graham Seton -- Flood on the Goodwins / A.D. Divine -- Under enemy colours / A.O. Pollard -- The Aldershot affair / Clarence Herbert New -- Cunningham / W.F. Morris -- Live bait / J.M. Walsh -- Uncle Hyacinth / Alfred Noyes -- Alexander and the lady / Edgar Wallace -- The popinjay knight / Valentine Williams -- The link -- Michael Annesley -- The army of the shadows / Eric Ambler -- The traitress / Sidney Horler -- Thief is an ugly word / Paul Gallico -- Fraulein Judas / C.P. Donnel Jr. -- The courier / Dan Fesperman -- Citadel / Stephen Hunter -- Charlie's shell game / Brian Garfield -- Flight into disaster / Erle Stanley Gardner -- You know what's going on / Olen Steinhauser -- The lady of the Great North Road / William Le Queux -- Calloway's code / O. Henry -- The story of a conscience / Ambrose Bierce -- High tide / John P. Marquand -- A battle of wits / Emmuska Orczy -- Adventure of the scrap of paper / George Barton -- The naval treaty / Arthur Conan Doyle -- The Black doctor / T.T. Flynn -- Free-lance spy / H. Bedford-Jones -- A tilt with the Muscovite / George Bronson-Howard -- Trouble on the border / John Ferguson -- The case of the Dixon torpedo / Arthur Morrison -- A curious experience / Mark Twain -- Parker Adderson, philosopher / Ambrose Bierce -- The hand of Carlos / Charles McCarry -- Neighbors / Joseph Finder -- Old soldiers / Brendan DuBois -- Condor in the stacks / James Grady -- Miss Bianca / Sara Paretsky -- Betrayed / Ronald G. Sercombe -- For your eyes only / Ian Fleming -- The red, red flowers / M.E. Chaber -- Comrade / Jeffery Deaver -- The spy who clutched a playing card / Edward D. Hoch -- Affair in Warsaw / Robert Rogers -- The end of the string / Charles McCarry -- Sleeping with my assassin / Andrew Klavan.