Since his reemergence with the publication of Old Boys, Charles McCarry has been heralded as one of the select few novelists of espionage who manage to break out of his genre to shine as a brilliant and unique novelist. "Second Sight" is seventh in the series that follows the legendary spy Paul Chri[...]
Spun with unsettling plausibility from the events surrounding the assassination of John F. Kennedy, and featuring secret agent Paul Christopher, "The Tears of Autumn" was a major bestseller upon its publication in 1975, and this riveting novel of espionage and foreign affairs remains just as grippin[...]
On a rainy night in Paris, Paul Christopher's lover Molly Benson falls victim to a vehicular homicide minutes after Christopher boards a jet bound for Vietnam. To explain this senseless murder, "The Last Supper" takes its readers back not only to the earliest days of Christopher's life, but also to [...]
Since his re-emergence with the publication of Old Boys and Christopher's Ghosts, Charles McCarry has been heralded as one of the select few novelists of espionage who manage to break out of their genre to shine as brilliant and unique. Second Sight is seventh in the series that follows the legendar[...]
It is the late 1930s, and a young Christopher bears witness to an unspeakable atrocity committed by a remorseless SS officer. When the action moves forward to the height of the Cold War, the SS man emerges out of the ruins of post-war Germany to destroy the last living witness to his crime. It's a c[...]
Cool, urbane Paul Christopher is the perfect American agent, currently working in deep cover in the twilight world of international intrigue. But now even he cannot tell good from bad in a maze of double- and triple-cross. As a group of international agents embark on a trip in a Cadillac from Switze[...]
When Horace Hubbard's cousin, Paul Christopher, goes missing and is presumed dead, the CIA 'old boys' come out of retirement to help find one of their former colleagues, one of their own. Hunting, and being hunted, from Xinjiang to Brazil, Rome, Tel Aviv, Budapest and Moscow, the old pros, along wit[...]
Early one morning in West Berlin, a nervous courier delivers the handwritten manuscript of a dissident Russian novel to agent Paul Christopher; minutes later the courier's spine is snapped by an impact with a passing limousine. Meanwhile in Rome, Christopher's wife Cathy takes a lover in an attempt [...]
Paul Christopher, at the height of his powers as a secret agent, believes he knows who arranged JFK's assassination. But his theory is so destructive of the legend of Kennedy and so dangerous to the survival of foreign policy that he is ordered to drop his investigation. But Christopher is a man who[...]
It's an election year, and America is polarized between a lantern-jawed liberal and a far-right former businessman with deep ties to the energy industry. Meanwhile suicide bombers, led by an Arab prince made rich by oil, are using passenger airlines to spread chaos and fear. Their goal is the destru[...]
In Berlin during the late 1930s, a young Paul Christopher struggles with a doomed love affair amid the rising Nazi tide. Before he escapes Germany, however, he witnesses an SS officer commit an unspeakable atrocity. Later, at the height of the Cold War, the SS man resurfaces to destroy the last livi[...]
""The Shanghai Factor" unfolds with compelling speed, propelled by intriguing incidents, well-drawn characters and authentic-ringing spy world aphorisms." --"The Wall Street Journal" Following the hugely popular Paul Christopher series, The Shanghai Factor is the first standalone espionage novel fro[...]
Earth's wealthiest man attempts to save humanity from an impending apocalypse
The planet's first and only trillionaire, Henry Peel, did not make his fortune by being a fool. A gifted inventor and scientist, he possesses an imagination on the scale of history's greatest thinkers, and he has turne[...]
A woman's tragic death in a vehicular homicide minutes after her lover, Paul Christopher, leaves for Vietnam gives way to details about Christopher's youth and the origins of the CIA in the clandestine operations of the OSS during World War II. By the author of The Tears of Autumn. Reprint.[...]
Now back in print, the prophetic thriller from "the best writer of intelligence and political novels in the world" ("The Boston Globe")
When Charles McCarry's "The Better Angels" was first published almost 30 years ago, its premise--that terrorists would use passenger-filled airliners as tools [...]
A deep-cover American agent in China is given a new brief: Infiltrate the Chinese Secret Police, Work Alone.[...]
A deep-cover American agent in China is given a new brief: Infiltrate the Chinese Secret Police, Work Alone.[...]