- Graham Henry Greene
Graham Greene / Graham Greene , who was in the staff of The Times from 1926 to 1940, and served in the Foreign Office during WWII, is the author of many important novels, several of which were made into movies. Critics often refer to a turning point in his writing when he converted to Catholicism, and often wonder as to why he continues to elude the Nobel Committee. His first work, Babbling April , appeared in 1925. - Robert Ludlum
Robert Ludlum was an American author of 29 thriller novels. There are more than 210 million copies of his books in print, and translated into 32 languages. Ludlum also published books under the pseudonyms Jonathan Ryder and Michael Shepherd. Some of Ludlum's novels have been made into films and mini-series, including "The Osterman Weekend", "The Holcroft Covenant", "The Apocalypse Watch", "The Bourne Identity", … - Len Deighton
Leonard Cyril Deighton (born February 18, 1929, Marylebone, London) is a British historian and author of spy fiction and historical novels. Several of his novels have been adapted as films. His first four novels featured an anonymous anti-hero, named "Harry Palmer" in the films, and portrayed by Michael Caine. The first trilogy of his "Bernard Samson" novel series was made into a twelve-part television series by Granada Television in 1988, shown only once, … - Ian Lancaster Fleming
Ian Lancaster Fleming (May 28, 1908 - August 12, 1964) was a British author, journalist and Second World War Naval Officer. Fleming is best remembered for creating the character of James Bond and chronicling his adventures in twelve novels and nine short stories. Additionally, Fleming wrote the children's story "Chitty Chitty Bang Bang" and two non-fiction books. - Charles McCarry
Charles McCarry (born 1930 Massachusetts) is an American writer primarily of spy fiction. - Raymond Benson
Raymond Benson (born September 6, 1955) is an American author best known for being the last official author of the adult James Bond novels. Benson was born in Midland, Texas and graduated from Permian High School in 1973. In primary school Benson took an interest in the piano which would later in his life develop into an interest in composing music. - Donald Hamilton
Donald Bengtsson Hamilton (March 24, 1916 - November 20, 2006) was a U.S. writer of novels, short stories, and non-fiction about the outdoors. His novels consist mostly of paperback originals, principally spy fiction but also crime fiction and Westerns. He is best known for his long-running Matt Helm series (1960-1993), which chronicles the adventures of an undercover counter-agent/assassin working for a secret American government agency. - John Gardner
John Edmund Gardner (born November 20, 1926) is an English spy novelist. - John Le Carré
John le Carré is the pseudonym of David John Moore Cornwell, an English writer of espionage novels. Le Carré has resided in St Buryan, Cornwall, Great Britain, for more than forty years. - James Munro
James Munro was the pseudonym of a British writer named James William Mitchell (born 1926) who, in the late 1960s, wrote four spy thrillers under this byline. The hero is a British agent named John Craig, who works, mostly reluctantly, for Department K. The books, "The Man Who Sold Death"; "Die Rich, Die Happy"; "The Money That Money Can't Buy"; and "The Innocent Bystanders" were tough-minded, well-written, and well-plotted. - Gayle Lynds
Gayle Lynds is the award-winning author of such international political novels as "The Last Spymaster," "The Coil", and "Masquerade." A member of the U.S. Association for Intelligence Officers, she is known for being a bestselling novelist in the male-dominated genre of spy fiction or spy thrillers. Her books are published in some twenty countries around the world. Lynds began her writing career as a reporter for the "Arizona Republic", … - Michael Gilbert
Michael Francis Gilbert, (July 17, 1912 - February 8, 2006), was a British writer of both fictional mysteries and thrillers who wrote as Michael Gilbert. He was a lawyer in London for many years and at one point had Raymond Chandler as his client. He had a very long and very productive writing career, beginning with his first novel, "Close Quarters", in 1946 and continuing through 1999 with "Over and Out". - Desmond Cory
Desmond Cory is a pseudonym used by British mystery and thriller writer Shaun Lloyd McCarthy between 1951 and 1991. Under it he wrote 40+ novels, including the creation of serial characters such as Johnny Fedora, a debonair British secret agent. Cory also wrote screenplays for Graham Greene novels (such as "England Made Me") and had a number of his own novels appear on the big-screen and in TV thriller series. - Desmond Skirrow
Desmond Skirrow was a British advertising executive and writer of thrillers. In the late 1960s he wrote three outstanding spy novels about a fictional British agent named John Brock. Like his creator, Brock works in advertising in London, but is also a part-time agent for an undercover department run by The Fat Man. The three novels, "It Won't Get You Anywhere", "I Was Following This Girl", and "I'm Trying to Give It Up", are tough, irreverent, … - Manning O'Brine
Manning O'Brine (born 1915) is an Irish thriller writer and television screenplay writer. Throughout his writing career, all of his novels have concerned fictional secret agents, and his works could therefore be considered spy fiction. He began with a series of about eight books about "Michael the O'Kelly". He then wrote three books that were more realistic in nature than the O'Kelly books and received a certain amount of critical praise. - Manning Coles
Manning Coles is the pseudonym of two British writers, Adelaide Frances Oke Manning (1891-1959) and Cyril Henry Coles (1899-1965), who wrote many spy thrillers from the early 40s through the early 60s. The fictional protagonist in 26 of their books was Thomas Elphinstone Hambledon, who works for the Foreign Office. - Daniel Silva
Daniel Silva (born 1960) is an American author of thriller/espionage novels. - Charles Cumming
Charles Cumming is a British writer of spy fiction. The son of Ian Cumming (1938-) and Caroline (Ramsay) Pilkington (1943-), he was educated at Ludgrove School (1979-1984), Eton College (1985-1989) and the University of Edinburgh (1990-1994), where he graduated with 1st Class Honours in English Literature. The Observer has described him as "probably the best of the new generation of British spy writers who are taking over where John le Carré and Len Deighton left off". - Alan Furst
Alan Furst (born February 20, 1941) is an American author of historical spy novels set just prior to and during the Second World War. Born in New York City, and raised on the Upper West Side of Manhattan, Furst received a B.A. from Oberlin College in 1962 and an M.A. from Penn State in 1967. Furst's papers, on deposit at the Ransom Humanities Center in the University of Texas at Austin, … - Kingsley Amis
Sir Kingsley William Amis (April 16, 1922 - October 22, 1995) was an English novelist, poet, critic, and teacher. He wrote more than twenty novels, three collections of poetry, short stories, radio and television scripts, and books of social and literary criticism. He is the father of the British novelist Martin Amis. - E. Howard Hunt
Everette Howard Hunt, Jr. (October 9 1918 - January 23 2007) was an American author and spy. He worked for the CIA and later the White House under President Richard Nixon. Hunt, with G. Gordon Liddy and others, was one of the White House's "plumbers" - a secret team of operatives charged with fixing "leaks". Information disclosures had proved an embarrassment to the Nixon administration when defense analyst Daniel Ellsberg sent a series of documents, … - Raelynn Hillhouse
Raelynn Hillhouse is an American novelist, expert on international affairs and national security and former smuggler. Hillhouse studied in Central and Eastern Europe for over six years at various institutions including Moscow State University, Moscow Finance Institute, Humboldt University of Berlin, Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen (Germany) and Babes-Bolyai University (Cluj, Romania). She earned her undergraduate degree from Washington University in St. - Clive Cussler
Clive Eric Cussler (born July 15, 1931 in Aurora, Illinois) is an American adventure novelist and successful amateur marine archaeologist. - Elleston Trevor
Elleston Trevor was the pseudonym, and eventually legal name, of the British novelist Trevor Dudley-Smith (February 17, 1920 - 1995), who also wrote as Adam Hall, Simon Rattray, Howard North, Roger Fitzalan, Mansell Black, Trevor Burgess, Warwick Scott, Caesar Smith and Lesley Stone. - Will Clarke
Will Clarke (born 13 August 1970) is an American novelist who is the author of "Lord Vishnu's Love Handles: A Spy Novel (sort of)" and "The Worthy: A Ghost's Story". Clarke graduated from Lousiana State University, where he also became a member of the Sigma Chi Fraternity. A native of Shreveport, Louisiana, Clarke originally self-published both books via the Internet and independent books stores like Book Soup in Los Angeles, BookPeople in Austin, … - Jack du Brul
Jack DuBrul (sometimes written as "Jack Du Brul") (1968-) is a New York Times Best-Selling Author from Vermont who writes techno thrillers. Born in Burlington, Vermont on October 15, 1968, he remained in Vermont all through his childhood, though he did go to a private school, Westminster, in Connecticut for grades 9 through 12. After college he moved to Florida where he wrote his first book. He has since moved back to Vermont. - Warren Murphy
Warren Murphy (born in Jersey City, New Jersey, September 13, 1933) is an American author, most famous as the co-creator of "The Destroyer" series, the basis for the film "Remo Williams: The Adventure Begins". He worked as a reporter and editor and after service during the Korean War, he drifted into politics. Murphy also wrote the screenplay for "Lethal Weapon 2". He is the author of the "Trace" and "Digger" series. - Barry Eisler
Barry Eisler, born 1964 in New Jersey (USA), is the author of a best-selling series of novels starring the anti-hero John Rain, a half-Japanese, half-American former CIA-operative turned freelance assassin. The stories are set around the world and reflect (both Eisler and Rain's) CIA experience, martial arts training, and love of good Scotch. Before becoming a full-time writer, Eisler had just four jobs. - Herbert Yardley
Herbert Osborne Yardley (13 April 1889-7 August, 1958) was an American cryptologist most known for his book "The American Black Chamber" (1931). The title of the book refers to the cryptographic organisation of which Yardley was the founder and head - MI-8; under Yardley, … - Maureen Duffy
Maureen Patricia Duffy (b. 1933 in Worthing, Sussex) is a contemporary British poet, playwright and novelist. She has also published a literary biography of Aphra Behn, and "The Erotic World of Faery" a book-length study of eroticism in faery fantasy literature. After a tough childhood, Duffy took her degree in English from King's College London. She went on to be a schoolteacher from 1956 to 1961, … - Ibn-E-Safi
Ibn-e-Safi (also spelled as Ibne Safi was the pen name of Asrar Ahmad (Urdu: اسرار احمد), a best-selling and prolific fiction writer, novelist and poet of Urdu. The word Ibn-e-Safi is a Persian expression which literally means "Son of Safi", where the word Safi means "chaste" or "righteous". He wrote from the 1940s in India, and later Pakistan after the partition of British India in 1947. - Hayford Peirce
Hayford Peirce (born January 7, 1942, Bangor, Maine) is an American writer of science fiction, mysteries, and spy thrillers. He attended Phillips Exeter Academy and received his BA from Harvard College. He has written numerous short stories for the science-fiction magazines "Analog", "Galaxy", and "Omni", as well as mystery shorts for "Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine" and "Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine". - Lionel Davidson
Lionel Davidson (born March 31, 1922) is an English novelist who has written a number of acclaimed spy thrillers. - Edward S. Aarons
Edward Sidney Aarons was the author of more than 80 novels from 1936 until 1962. One of these was under the pseudonum "Paul Ayres" (Dead Heat), and 30 were written using the name "Edward Ronns". He also wrote numerous articles for detective magazines such as "Detective Story Magazine" and "Scarab". Among other things, Aarons is known for his spy thrillers, particularly his "Assignment" series, which are set all over the world, and have been translated into 17 languages. - Eric van Lustbader
Eric Van Lustbader (1946 -) is a writer of fantasy and thriller novels. He is a graduate of Columbia College, with a degree in Sociology, and is a second-level Reiki master. - Safdar Shaheen
Safdar Shaheen is an author from Multan, Pakistan, whose work includes children's books and Urdu spy novels within the Imran Series mythos created by the late Ibn-e-Safi. After the death of Ibn-e-safi, Shaheen copied some characters of the Imran series, then wrote original novels. He has written oven seven hundred books, including his contributions to the Imran series. - George Markstein
George Markstein (1929 - January 15, 1987) was a British writer of thrillers and teleplays. He was born in Germany but emigrated to England with the rise of the Nazis. Together with Patrick McGoohan, he was the co-creator of the British cult classic series "The Prisoner" starring and often written and/or directed by McGoohan. He was also the producer for the 1970-1971 series "Man at the Top". - Dorothy Gilman
Dorothy Gilman (June 25 1923 -) (also known as Dorothy Gilman Butters) is a United States author of mystery and spy fiction. She is most well-known for the Mrs. Pollifax series of spy novels, about spy and grandmother Emily Pollifax, who chooses to become a spy in her 60s, and who stars in fourteen books written over three decades. Gilman's books tends to feature unlikely heroines, often travelling to exotic locales. - David Wolstencroft
David Wolstencroft is a British author and creator of the BAFTA award-winning TV spy drama "Spooks". Wolstencroft was born in 1969 and grew up in Edinburgh, Scotland. He is the author of two novels, his first "Good News, Bad News" and his second "Contact Zero." Both are of the espionage/spy genre involving the British intelligence services. - Chuck Pfarrer
Chuck Pfarrer (born April 13, 1957), is an American author and screenwriter.
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