Dossier Thriller is an archive of military and spy fiction in English: authors, series, reading orders and book pages, organized by genre and checked against publisher sources. This page explains who curates it, how the data is verified, what the site cannot know and how it is funded.

Who Curates the Archive

The archive is curated by Marc Dufort, and that is the only signature it carries. Marc Dufort is a pen name; the person behind it is Italian. There is no editorial board, no team of reviewers and no outside contributors: when a page makes a judgment about a book, that judgment comes from the same desk that checked its publication data.

The novels of Marc Dufort, the author who curates this archive

Why an archive in English

Most of this genre is written in English, and most of it first appears in the United States or the United Kingdom. The questions readers ask most often, such as which book comes first, whether a prequel should be read before or after the original novels, or whether a continuation author keeps the same numbering, are asked above all about American editions. An archive in English can answer them with the data of those editions: the US title when it differs from the British one, the US publisher, the year the book reached American readers.

The Method

Every bibliographic fact on the site, from the original title and the year of first publication to the publisher and the position of a book in its series, is checked against editorial sources: the websites of the publishers, the Library of Congress Catalog, WorldCat and the official websites of the authors. Sites that summarize series orders are useful for spotting a missing volume, but they are used only as a cross-check and never as the single source of a fact.

When a data point cannot be confirmed, the field stays empty. This is a rule, not an oversight: a wrong year copied onto hundreds of pages misleads far more readers than a gap that is declared openly. Verification is done title by title, at the moment a page is written, on the books that page actually discusses.

Descriptions are written from scratch. The site does not reproduce synopses, back-cover copy or promotional texts from publishers, and it does not use book covers as artwork: every image on the site is original. Pages avoid spoilers beyond the opening premise of a book.

What the Site Cannot Know

Some things fall outside what any archive can verify, and the site says so rather than guessing:

• release dates of books that publishers have not yet announced, and later changes to dates already announced;
• how the writing of a co-authored or continuation novel was divided between the credited authors;
• sales figures and print runs, which publishers rarely disclose;
• whether a series will continue after its most recent book, unless the publisher or the author has said so;
• which numbering a series will follow in the future when sources disagree today;
• whether the tactical and technical detail in a novel would hold up in the field: the pages describe how a book uses real units, agencies and equipment, not whether every detail is accurate.

When data changes after a page is written, the page is corrected. Readers who spot an error can report it through the contact page.

How the Site Is Funded

The site is funded through the Amazon Associates program. Some pages include links to Amazon.com for books in the catalog; when a visitor buys through one of them, the site earns a commission and the price for the buyer does not change. The links are grouped in a single, clearly marked block, preceded by the notice the program requires. No publisher, author or agent pays to appear in the archive, and commissions do not decide which books are included, how they are described or in what order they are listed. The affiliate disclosure gives the details.

Independence

Dossier Thriller is not affiliated with, sponsored by or endorsed by any armed force, intelligence service, government agency, publisher or literary estate. References to real units, agencies and equipment describe how the novels use them; they carry no official information and no inside knowledge. The names of authors, titles and series are used only to catalog and discuss the books.

The best way into the catalog is through its eleven genres, each of which gathers the authors and series that share a setting and a kind of story.