What happens when you recruit a bunch of rogue geniuses and send them to enemy territory to save the world?

You get a great story

The book The 100-Year-Old Who Climbed Out Through the Window and Disappeared focuses on lampooning the espionage genre and parody the mystery/chase genres.

Hitler’s Ashes: How Hitler’s Assassination Leads to the Development of Germany’s Atomic Bomb by John T. Cox is a very imaginative alternative history story. The premise, Operation Valkyrie (the plot to assassinate Hitler) has succeeded and Colonel Claus von Stauffenberg is the new leader of Germany.