Author: Charles McCarry
Year: 2004
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Spies/Espionage
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9780143035497
0143035495 |
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In his magnificent new novel, Charles McCarry returns to the world of his legendary character, Paul Christopher, the crack intelligence agent who is as skilled at choosing a fine wine as he is at tradecraft, at once elegant and dangerous, sophisticated and rough-and-ready. As the novel begins, Paul Christopher, now an aging but remarkably fit 70ish, is dining at home with his cousin Horace, also an ex-agent. Dinner is delicious and uneventful. A day later, Paul has vanished.
The months pass, Paul's ashes are delivered by a Chinese official to the American consulate in Beijing and a memorial service is held in Washington. But Horace is not convinced that Paul is dead and, enlisting the support of six other retired colleagues-a sort of all-star backfield of the old Outfit-Horace gets the "Old Boys" back in the game to find Paul Christopher.
They start with a photo found in Paul's study: a woman's hand holding a centuries' old scroll, once in the possession of the Nazis and now sought by the U.S. government and Muslim extremists alike. Harassed by American intelligence, hunted by terrorists, Horace Christopher and the Old Boys travel the globe, from Xinjiang to Brazil, from Rome to Tel Aviv, Budapest to Moscow, in search of Paul and the unspeakably dangerous truth.
This book is part of the "Paul Christopher" series. Here are some other books from this series:
 | "Shelley's Heart"
First published in 1995
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 | "Second Sight"
First published in 1991
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 | "The Last Supper"
First published in 1983
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 | "The Better Angels"
First published in 1979
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 | "The Secret Lovers"
First published in 1977
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 | "The Tears of Autumn"
First published in 1974
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 | "The Miernik Dossier"
First published in 1973
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