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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:
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 ...
This book introduces Paul Christopher, who will go on to be the main character in another six novels. Document #4 says that he is "An American under deep cover in Geneva", [2] presumably with a cover job in the World Research Organization, a branch of the United Nations; his post, however, is unspecified.
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 ...
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.
Pages in category "Books by Paul McCartney" The following 4 pages are in this category, out of 4 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. 0–9.
First edition (publ. E.P. Dutton h/b) The Better Angels is a 1979 thriller novel by Charles McCarry.It was poorly received at the time of its release; its premise of terrorists using passenger planes as instruments of destruction was considered too implausible to suspend one's disbelief.
McCarry is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: Aidan McCarry (born 1963), Irish hurler; Caleb McCarry, the Bush administration's Cuba Transition Coordinator; Charles McCarry (born 1930), American writer; Jane McCarry (born 1970), Scottish actress; Patrick McCarry (1875 – 1921), Irish republican activist; Sean McCarry (born 1957)