The Spy Who Haunted Me
core novel 2009 The Nightside / Secret Histories
Record
| First published | 2009 |
|---|---|
| Original language |  EN |
| Work type | novel |
| Canon status | core |
| Reader rating | 4.00 (4,939 ratings, collected 2026-08-30) |
| Page count | 336 |
| First-edition ISBN | 9780451462725 |
| Internal chronology | 3 |
Synopsis
In the third Secret Histories novel, Eddie Drood is sent undercover into the Nightside, a hidden, perpetually dark district of London ruled by its own dangerous rules and populated by supernatural beings, criminals, and rogue magicians. Posing as someone other than a Drood, Eddie must operate without the protection his family name usually affords, navigating a treacherous network of contacts and enemies to complete a mission whose full stakes only become clear as he goes deeper into the district's underworld. The assignment forces him to rely on skill and improvisation rather than the Droods' resources, while old rivalries and new threats from the Nightside's power brokers complicate his efforts to get in, get his information, and get out alive.
Where it sits
- Universe: The Nightside / Secret Histories
- Series: Secret Histories core; position 3 of 12 in the series' recorded order
- Author: Simon R. Green
Notes
- From the series record (Secret Histories): Follows the Drood family of secret agent-sorcerers; a separate urban-fantasy sequence from this same author's already-admitted Nightside series, with its own cast and premise (occasional cross-references between the two exist but neither series requires the other to be read).
Neighbouring works
Publication order and internal chronology are tracked as two separate orderings and are never conflated: a book's place in one says nothing about its place in the other.
- Publication order, within the series Secret Histories: position 3 of 12: previous Daemons Are Forever (2008) · next From Hell With Love (2010)
- Internal chronology, within The Nightside / Secret Histories: position 6 of 24: previous Nightingale's Lament (2004) · next Hex and the City (2005)
Sources
← The Nightside / Secret Histories dossier · All universes
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