THE TOPSPY BOOKS

Study in scarlet
Title: The Scarlet Pimpernel
Author: Baroness Emmuska OrczyLondon fop Percy Blakeney is also secretly the Scarlet Pimpernel who, in a variety of disguises, makes repeated daring trips to France to save aristocrats from Madame Guillotine. His unknowing wife is also French, and she finds that her brother has been arrested by the Republic to try and get her to find out who "that damned elusive Pimpernel" really is.

Stiff upper lip
Title: Ashenden: The British Agent Author: W Somerset MaughamJohn Ashenden during World War I is a spy for British Intelligence. He is sent first to Geneva and later to Russia. The chapters contain individual stories involving many different characters. All of the people whom Ashenden meets during his travels have their own reason for being involved in the spy game, and each are more complex than they first look.

Out hunting nazis
Title: The Boys from Brazil Author: Ira LevinA young inexperienced Nazi Hunter stumbles onto a secret SS meeting in 1970's South America. Led by the infamous Doctor Josef Mengele, the plot of the Nazis is first dismissed as unimportant by veteran Nazi hunter Lieberman. When the young Nazi hunter turns up murdered, however, Lieberman investigates the mysterious meeting and discovers an insane plot to resurrect the Führer Adolf Hitler and establish the Fourth Reich.

The big chill
Title: The Spy Who Came in From the Cold Author: John Le CarreWhen a fellow British agent is killed at Checkpoint Charlie right before his eyes, Alec Lemas, head of the Berlin station, returns to London headquarters. There his boss, Control, inquires if he is tired, ready to come in from the cold. Control suggests that there is a vacancy, a desk job, that might interest him, but Alec declines adamantly. Control immediately mentions that he has something out of the ordinary in mind for a man called Hans-Dieter Mundt, who in 1959 posed as a member of an East German steel mission.
Story of Kim
Title: Kim Author: Rudyard KiplingKim, a young boy living on his own on the streets of India, is actually the son of a British officer. He meets a holy man, and devotes himself to his tending. When British administrators discover his birthright, he is placed in a British school. His nature, however, is opposed to the regimentation and he rebels. His familiarity with Indian life and his ability to pass as an Indian child allows him to function as a spy for the British as they attempt to thwart revolution and invasion of India. Rejoining his holy man, Kim (with the help of daring adventurer Mahbub Ali) takes on a dangerous mission.