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Charles McCarry (June 14, 1930 – February 26, 2019) [1] was an American writer, primarily of spy fiction, and a former undercover operative for the Central Intelligence Agency. [ 2 ] Biography
President in: The Better Angels (1979) and Shelley's Heart (1995) by Charles McCarry; Was from Kentucky, and served from 1993 to 1997 (The Better Angels) and 2001–2005 (Shelley's Heart). Defeats President Franklin Douglass Mallory and runs against him four years later.
President in: Shelley's Heart by Charles McCarry (1995 novel) Former Senator from Massachusetts who is chosen to be vice president by President R. Tucker Attenborough. Appointed as vice president in less than a day, and then takes over as acting President due to Attenborough's failing health under the 25th Amendment. Party: Democratic
President in: Shelley's Heart by Charles McCarry (1995 novel) Speaker of the House, he becomes president after the resignation of impeached President Bedford Forrest Lockwood. Next in line of succession due to the death of Vice President Williston Graves. His efforts resolve a Constitutional crisis due to an election stolen by computer fraud.
Wrong Is Right, released in the UK as The Man with the Deadly Lens, is a 1982 American political satire comedy thriller film directed, written, and co-produced by Richard Brooks and starring Sean Connery as TV news reporter Patrick Hale.
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.
Enjoy a classic game of Hearts and watch out for the Queen of Spades!
The Miernik Dossier received excellent reviews, and instantly established McCarry's reputation as one of the foremost American novelists of espionage. 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." [1]