SPY THRILLERS - Boxed Set
Classic Tales of Secret Codes, Disguised Loyalties, Imperial Intrigue, and Prewar EspionageBy John Buchan, E. Philips Oppenheim, Erskine Childers, Joseph Conrad, William Le Queux, Fred M. White, Robert W. Chambers, Talbot Mundy, James Fenimore Cooper, Arthur Conan Doyle, John R. Coryell, George Barton, Robert Baden-Powell
Length613h 20m
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SPY THRILLERS - Boxed Set surveys the emergence of espionage fiction from frontier romance, imperial adventure, detective narrative, and the modern tale of international conspiracy. Its varied selection moves from covert observation and coded loyalties to chases, invasions, disguises, and moral uncertainty, revealing how the spy became a central figure in popular literature's response to geopolitical anxiety. Stories of clandestine networks and threatened nations stand beside more psychologically charged explorations of secrecy and divided allegiance, giving the set both brisk entertainment and historical depth. The contributors collectively represent a formative transatlantic tradition. Novelists associated with British imperial adventure, detective fiction, and pre-First World War invasion narratives meet an American lineage shaped by frontier conflict and sensational romance. Their careers span the nineteenth century through the interwar era, when expanding empires, technological change, mass newspapers, and global war transformed intelligence work into a potent imaginative subject. Across these distinct cultural positions, the writers helped establish conventions that later espionage fiction would refine: the hidden enemy, the amateur operative, the bureaucratic secret, and the uneasy relation between patriotism and suspicion. Recommended for students and general readers alike, this boxed set offers an unusually broad encounter with the genre's early vocabulary. Reading across its many styles illuminates not only the evolution of the thriller but also the competing fears, fantasies, and political assumptions embedded in tales of surveillance and intrigue.
Audiobook details
GenreMystery and Thriller, General Fiction
Length613 hrs 20 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateJul 1, 2018
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1BULLDOG DRUMMOND SERIES - Complete Thriller Collection: 10 Novels in One Volume (Annotated)
2SPY THRILLERS - Boxed Set
3Introduction
4The World's Greatest Military Spies and Secret Service Agents (George Barton)
5Introduction
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6I. The Alsatian Smuggler Who Helped Napoleon to Capture the Austrian Army
7II. Belle Boyd, The Confederate Girl Who Saved Stonewall Jackson
8III. The Indian Scout Who was the Hero of King Philip’s War
9IV. How the Suicide of a Staff Officer Once Averted War Between Austria and Russia
10V. The Romantic Side of Major André’s Unsuccessful Exploit
11VI. The Strange Adventures of the Chevalier D’Eon at the Russian Court
12VII. How Napoleon’s Chief Spy Hoodwinked the Emperor of Austria
13VIII. Lydia Darrah, The Brave Quakeress Who Saved Washington’s Army from Destruction
14IX. Doctor Steiber and the Mystery of the Franco-Prussian War
15X. The Adventure of Private Morgan in the Camp of Cornwallis
16XI. The Mysterious and Romantic Case of General Napper Tandy
17XII. How Monsieur De Meinau Helped to Make Jerome Bonaparte King of Westphalia
18XIII. The Strange Mystery Surrounding the Betrayal of Captain Nathan Hale
19XIV. Major Le Caron and the Fenian Invasion of Canada
20XV. How Emma Edmonds Penetrated the Confederate Lines
21XVI. The Amazing Adventure of Brigadier-General Lafayette C. Baker
22XVII. The Mysterious “F” and the Captured Troopers
23XVIII. The Mysterious Man Who Asked for a Light
24XIX. Carl Lody and Spies of the World’s Greatest War
25My Adventures as a Spy (Robert Baden-Powell)
26The Different Degrees of Spies
27Strategical Agents
28Tactical Agents
29Residential Spies
30Officer Agents
31Commercial Spying
32Germany's Invasion Plans
33Field Spies
34Catching a Spy
35Conveying Information
36Secret Signals and Warnings
37Spies in War Time
38The Pluck of a Spy
39Traitorous Spying
40The German Spy Organisation
41The Value of Being Stupid
42Concealing a Fort in a Moth's Head
43Butterfly Hunting in Dalmatia
44How Spies Disguise Themselves
45The Sport of Spying
46The Value of Hide-and-Seek
47Spying on Mountain Troops
48Posing as an Artist
49Fooling a German Sentry
50A Spy is Suspicious
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