Table of Contents

Introduction
Otto Penzler
 
The End of the String
Charles McCarry
 
Section 7(a) (Operational)
Lee Child
 
Destiny City
James Grady
 
Neighbors
Joseph Finder
 
East of Suez, West of Charing Cross Road
John Lawton
 
Father’s Day
John Weisman
 
Casey at the Bat
Stephen Hunter
 
Max Is Calling
Gayle Lynds
 
The Interrogator
David Morrell
 
Sleeping with My Assassin
Andrew Klavan
 
The Hamburg Redemption
Robert Wilson
 
The Courier
Dan Fesperman
 
Hedged In
Stella Rimington
 
You Know What’s Going On
Olen Steinhauer

About the Author

Otto Penzler is the proprietor of The Mysterious Bookshop in New York City. He was publisher of The Armchair Detective, the founder of the Mysterious Press and the Armchair Detective Library, and created the publishing firm Otto Penzler Books. He is a recipient of an Edgar Award for The Encyclopedia of Mystery and Detection and the Ellery Queen Award by the Mystery Writers of America for his many contributions to the field. He is the editor of The Vampire Archives and The Black Lizard Big Book of Pulps, which was a New York Times bestseller. He is also the series editor of The Best American Mystery Stories of the Year. His other anthologies include Murder for Love, Murder for Revenge, Murder and Obsession, The 50 Greatest Mysteries of All Time, and The Best American Mystery Stories of the Century. He wrote 101 Greatest Movies of Mystery & Suspense. He lives in New York City.

Reviews

"Only Otto Penzler could bring together this dream team of espionage fiction-the short stories by some of America's most original thriller writers constitute an instant classic. Joseph Finder might be said to have supplied the tone for this splendid collection with the first line of his yarn: 'I can't shake the feeling that they're up to something.' The members of this dream team all are!"--Robert Littell

"The sheer variety of distinctive voices here gives us espionage fiction at its most pleasurable--impossible to read just one."--Joseph Kanon

"In Agents of Treachery, Otto Penzler doesn't just get A-plus talent--he does the real magic trick--he gets A-plus stories out of them.  Embrace your inner spy and join the secret club."--Brad Meltzer