The Big Book of Espionage

Name: The Big Book of Espionage
Brand: HighBridge Audio
Availability: InStock
Author: Otto Penzler
ISBN: 9781696602204

Author: Otto Penzler

Series: Big Book

Narrator: Piper Goodeve, Alex Wyndham, Daniel Thomas May

Unabridged: 47 hr 49 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Highbridge Audio

Published: 11/16/2021

Categories: Fiction, Suspense & Thriller, Espionage, Anthologies

Synopsis

Edgar Award–winning editor Otto Penzler is back with a new anthology that has gathered the intel on the world's greatest secret agents, declassified here for the first time.

Statesecrets. 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.

Great stories from Lee Child and Charles McCarry are pulled from the shadows and into the light. So pull your fedora down, adjust your fake moustache, and get ready to settle in with some of the greats.

About Otto Penzler

Otto Penzler, proprietor of The Mysterious Bookshop in New York City, founded The Mysterious Press in 1975, now an imprint at Grove/Atlantic, and publishes classic crime fiction through MysteriousPress.com. Penzler has won two Edgar Awards, MWA's Ellery Queen Award, and the Raven Award. He has been given Lifetime Achievement awards by Noircon and the Strand Magazine.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Arnis

Ne visas kaujas karos notiek starp lielām armijām. Nereti to labākam iznākumam, citiem nezinot un varbūt pat bez publiskas atzinības panākumu un arīdzan nedienu brīžos, ir jāiegūst tā informācijas deva vai varbūt pat kripata, kas ļautu attiecīgajās kaujās savai valstij gūt panākumu. Bet līdz ar slep......more

Goodreads review by Randal

A great collection of fantastic stories about espionage. There is a lot of good writing here. I really enjoyed this book, and have identified several authors that I want to read more from.......more

Goodreads review by Andrew

This is one of Penzler's best anthologies! Although I still consider "The Big Book of Rogues and Villains" and "The Big Book of Christmas Mysteries" to be his two best, "The Big Book of Espionage" is high up there. The only negative thing I can say about the book is most of the story take place during......more

Goodreads review by joyce w. laudon

No one does an anthology better than Otto Penzler of the Mysterious Bookshop. His anthologies are filled with stories; this one is no exception coming in at over 800 pages. This may make it the perfect gift for someone that you know this holiday season. They will be immersed in tales that will keep......more

Goodreads review by Alex

This is the second of the great Otto Penzler's Big Book Of collections I've read. As always in short story collections, there are some greats, some duds, and some in between. The ratio favors good more than enough to have made it a worthwhile read, though it's not as positive as The Big Book of Chri......more