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[2] [8] He left the CIA for the last time in 1967, becoming a writer of spy novels. [9] [10] McCarry was also an editor-at-large for National Geographic and contributed pieces to The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, the Saturday Evening Post, and other national publications. [1]
In most of McCarry's novels, both those about Christopher and those about his cousins, the Hubbards, there are characters who turn up in more than one of the books. The Miernik Dossier is almost an exception to this—only Paul Christopher himself and Kalash el Khatar, the Sudanese prince, ever appear in any of the other stories, the prince ...
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 ...
The Human Factor (1978) Graham Greene's The Human Factor doesn't follow a young, dashing spy, but an aging bureaucrat in MI6. Happy to live a now quiet life, Maurice Castle finds himself thrust ...
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, "steals the show in The Last Supper. In an intelligence community dominated by blond Ivy League graduates, and ...
(Bloomberg Opinion) -- The golden age of the spy thriller ended with the Cold War. But of late, news reports have provided enough material for a silver age to start — if authors take heed.The ...
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.
The best mystery novels don’t simply dazzle readers with byzantine plots or throw them off track with unreliable narrators or Macguffins. Here, works from John Le Carré, Michael Connelly, and more.