JAMES GLENN

Welcome! I have enjoyed working in the corporate world of international business for 35 years. For nine years my family and I lived overseas, including four years in India and five years in West Germany. My lovely, lifelong wife and I now live in the scenic mountains of northern New Mexico. We have three children and six grandchildren. …More
James Glenn - Historical Spy Novels and Autobiography

James Glenn fly fishing in the Valle Vidal. 

Pakistan, India and the Bomb - spy versus counterspy

PAKISTAN, INDIA
and the BOMB
Spy versus counterspy

A historical spy novel. In the early 1970’s unforeseen circumstances cause a Pakistani professor turned spy, an American CIA official and an American salesman to cross paths in New Delhi. Their lives become entangled in a way that none of the three could have anticipate.

The Pakistani professor’s job is to report on India’s progress in making its first atomic bomb. Is the professor up to the spy’s task? … More

Capitalist West Germany and Socialist East Germany: A country divided

CAPITALIST WEST GERMANY
AND SOCIALIST EAST GERMANY:
A COUNTRY DIVIDED

A historical spy novel. It is the mid-1970’s. A Russian general has honed his troops in East Germany for an imminent invasion of West Germany. He is looking for a plausible excuse to attack.The CIA’s new Chief of Station (COS) in Bonn must give the U.S. prior warning of a possible invasion from East Germany. He suspects that many West German spies in East Germany have been compromised, doubled, by the East Germans. Can the new COS find a way to learn about and thwart the general’s invasion plan? … More

Harvesting Memories of India - an American Family's Story

HARVESTING MEMORIES
OF INDIA: AN AMERICAN
FAMILY’S STORY

This autobiography is about an American family’s experience living and working in India. James Glenn represented International Harvester (I.H.) for the countries of India, Sri Lanka and Nepal. Over his four years there he worked closely with local managers to sell imported I.H. farm and construction equipment and trucks and to find and train dealers for the new, Indian-made I.H. farm tractors. As such, he contributed to India’s mechanization of agriculture in its “Green Revolution” which made India self-sufficient in food grains. … More