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Ten of McCarry's novels involve the life story of a fictional character named Paul Christopher, who grew up in pre-Nazi Germany, and later served in the Marines and became an operative for a U.S. government entity known as "the Outfit", meant to represent the Central Intelligence Agency. These books are, in order of publication:
Also in this universe is a 1988 historical novel, The Bride of the Wilderness, about Christopher's ancestors in 17th-century England, France, and Massachusetts. Like all of McCarry's books, this one displays "an almost Jamesian awareness of [its] European locale, the special authenticity of a loving expatriate writing of an adopted foreign land."
It takes place in 1960 and '61, a year after the events in the first Christopher novel, The Miernik Dossier, published in 1973, and three years before the beginning of The Tears of Autumn, published in 1974, which was actually the second book McCarry wrote about Christopher. Later books by McCarry, ten in all as of 2013, expanded from focusing ...
Modern spy novels are alive and well, and The Sympathizer proves it. Winner of the 2016 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, it follows an unnamed protagonist who served as a North Vietnamese mole in the ...
McCarry is the genuine article. This is a blazingly good read that is almost impossible to put down." In a wide-ranging review of McCarry's fiction, Pulitzer Prize -winning book critic Michael Dirda of The Washington Post [ 3 ] observes that the character of Barnabas (Barney) Wolkowicz, Paul Christopher's dogged mentor in espionage work ...
The novel is predominantly focused on the Graham family and the Hubbard family. (The Hubbards are closely related to the Christophers, protagonists of most of McCarry's novels.) The Hubbards are deeply entrenched in the Foreign Intelligence Service, a successor to the CIA after the latter was shut down for corruption. Horace, son of Elliott ...
In November 1963, American intelligence case officer and former Marine Paul Christopher investigates the assassination of US President John F Kennedy.Believing that the Kennedy White House was behind the assassination of Vietnamese President Ngo Dinh Diem, Christopher deduces that Vietnamese leaders had Kennedy assassinated as revenge.
Two months after Archer faked us out with a so-called “series finale,” it’s back with a three-part finale event. ... with the UN declaring all private spy agencies illegal — including ...