James Bond books
British spy novel series created by Ian Fleming. The first book, Casino Royale, was written in 1952 at Goldeneye, Fleming’s Jamaican retreat, reputedly to ease the tension of waiting to ...
intelligencer
An intelligencer, at least from the sixteenth century onwards, was a species of spy or informer who gathered intelligence or information of some kind and was expected to send confidential ...
Hypnerotomachia Poliphili
The Strife of Love in a Dream Italian romance attributed to Francesco Colonna (1433–1527). The work is written in a hybrid language, and is highly allegorical and densely packed with ...