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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:
Later books by McCarry, nine more in all, expanded from focusing solely on Christopher into what might be considered a chronicle of the Christopher universe: two novels feature his cousins, the Hubbards, and in many of the other Christopher novels his father, mother, one-time wife, and daughter play important and recurring roles.
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. In The Secret Lovers we have Paul Christopher, who had been in two earlier books, and the first appearance of his wife, Cathy, as well as David Patchen, a Harvard roommate, fellow ...
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 ...
Two women who worked for disgraced ex-NYPD honcho Jeffrey Maddrey are ensnared in the federal probe of a sex-for-overtime scandal involving another female employee, The Post has learned.
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.
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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 ...