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Tobias Literary Management is out with M by Kristofer Seppälä. The infamous Moriarty comes out of the shadows in the midst of World War I to use his criminal empire to help….

Zero Gravity Management is out with EXTRADITION by Andrew Rubin. A newly minted CIA agent offers a group of fugitives hiding in Russia the chance to return home if they help her recover a top-secret weapon that….

Between May 2022 and May 2021, there has been a 15.8% decrease in the material hitting the market. This gap has only continued to grow in past years. Dating at its peak, 2019 saw 33 specs out in a single month. Comparing that to now, that is nearly a 51.5% drop-off. While materials have decreased, the success rates have seen a bit more of a u-shape in the last few years.

Bellevue Productions is out with ELLE AND THE DEFROSTER AGENT by Nathan Patton. Elle’s a spy on the run from her own government. Ben’s a Defroster who transports cryo-frozen Soviet-era spies…

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Capstone Group is looking for a writer to develop NOMAD.

Between June 1st and June 30th, we tracked a total of 22 feature specs out. We’ve been coming from a steadily declining slump of material out, but June turned it around from May’s slow market. While not the highest number of features out this year, things are starting to mend.

Bellevue Productions is out with GAME, SET, MATCH by Peter Eskelsen. The lives of a varied group of people all intertwine in an escape mission.

Malko Linge, an Austrian nobleman and freelance CIA operative who spent his formative years in a special Nazi work camp for captured spies. Malko is a gentleman warrior without a country who works according to his own moral code and lives with a wicked wit and a lust for life.

Screen Shot 2015-04-30 at 2.48.33 PMThe true story of a high-ranking CIA officer who was caught selling secrets to the Russians. He then embarrassed the U.S. government when he did it again, this time from behind prison bars. What the imprisoned officer did was train his son in the ways of spycraft so he could continue to spy for Russia and even ferret out the mole that ratted out his father in the first place.

Logline: Since 1902, a hyper clandestine intelligence agency known as the First Lady Initiative has worked in total secrecy protecting the nation. For over a century, the responsibility has been passed down from First Lady to First Lady… and now to Henry Jeffries, former President and now America’s “First Man.”

ingeniousmrpykeBest-selling English author Henry Hemming’s latest book, The Ingenious Mr. Pyke: Inventor, Fugitive, Spy, has hit the market. Originally published in the UK under the title Churchill’s Iceman, the fascinating biography tells the story of Geoffrey Pyke, an inventor, war reporter, escaped prisoner, campaigner, father, educator, and misunderstood genius.

Susan Cooper is an unassuming, deskbound CIA analyst, and the unsung hero behind the Agency’s most dangerous missions. But when her partner falls off the grid and another top agent is compromised, she volunteers to go deep undercover to infiltrate the world of a deadly arms dealer, and prevent a global disaster.

Logline: Four years after the special operation to kill terrorist Osama bin Laden in Abbottabad, a team of German assassins have been hired by some Pakistani military leaders to get revenge on the members of SEAL Team Six who took part in the raid, and the only man capable of stopping them is the CIA’s Kirk McGarvey.

Logline: Follows students, with high-ranking government official parents, that attend at Langley High — the school that’s located less than a mile away from the CIA. After one parent goes missing and a teacher turns out to be more than he seems, one student becomes caught in the middle of a conspiracy much bigger than anything he could have imagined.

Susan Cooper is an unassuming, deskbound CIA analyst, and the unsung hero behind the Agency’s most dangerous missions. But when her partner falls off the grid and another top agent is compromised, she volunteers to go deep undercover to infiltrate the world of a deadly arms dealer, and prevent a global disaster.