MARK SIMMONS AUTHOR
ESPIONAGE BOOKS AND MUCH MORE
My name is Mark Simmons; welcome to my website. I’m a writer of espionage books, both fiction and non-fiction. My first book about Ian Fleming, Ian Fleming & Operation Golden Eye: Keeping Spain out of World War II, was favourably reviewed in the New York Times and was followed in 2020 by Ian Fleming’s War: The Inspiration for 007.
For many years I have also run an online book shop selling a wide range of second-hand titles. Visit my eBay store to see the full range.
ONLINE SHOP
You can purchase the full range of my espionage books and other titles in my new online shop. From my fiction novels to my non-fiction titles, all can be purchased directly from myself. Kindle books also available via a link to Amazon.
As well as selling my own titles, I also have an array of second-hand espionage books and other titles by other authors available to buy. Visit my online shop via the button below and start browsing the various categories of second-hand books.
Latest Release
By Mark Simmons
Rob Nicolson reluctant MI5 agent returns with his girlfriend Caroline from Spain, he is going to resign and they plan to open a book shop somewhere rural away from London. However the Director of the ‘firm’ MI5 Leo Hawthorne convinces him to take on just ‘one more job’ which sets Rob on his latest adventure. This is the IV of the Rob Nicolson books following on from Operation Flamenco.
My latest blog posts
Summer 2024 News Letter
My five favourite fiction Espionage books.
1 The 39 Steps John Buchan. I think it has to be on everybody’s list written by Buchan while he was ill in bed at the start of the First World War and published in 1915. It has great pace and a riveting plot no wonder the soldiers in the trenches were enthralled, and...
‘C’ and the birth of the modern Secret Service.
In August 1909, a semi retired, Naval Commander aged fifty, and living on a houseboat near Southampton devising boom defences for rivers and harbours, received an odd written request. The letter was from Rear Admiral Bethell, Director of Naval Intelligence. It advised...
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