The Tears Of Autumn

Spun with unsettling plausibility from the events surrounding the assassination of John F. Kennedy, and featuring secret agent Paul Christopher, The Tears of Autumn is a tour de force of action and enigma. Christopher, at the height of his powers, believes he knows who arranged the assassination and why. His theory is so destructive of the legend of the dead president, though, and so dangerous to the survival of foreign policy, that he is ordered to desist from investigating. But Christopher is a man who lives by, and for, the truth, and his internal compunctions force him to the heart of the matter. Christopher resigns from the Agency and embarks on a tour of investigation that takes him from Paris to Rome, Zurich, the Congo, and Saigon. Threatened by Kennedy's assassins and by his own government, Christopher follows the scent of his suspicion--one breath behind the truth, one step ahead of discovery and death. The Tears of Autumn is an incisive study of power and a brilliant commentary on the force of illusion, the grip of superstition, and the overwhelming strength of blood and family in the affairs of a nation.

The Tears of Autumn

Literature & Fiction

charles-mccarry

Contemporary

Dutton

The seventh and last novel in the sequence featuring secret agent Paul Christopher and the counter-espionage agency, "The Outfit". Members of "The Outfit" are being kidnapped, and injected with truth serum to make them reveal agency secrets. Christopher is recruited to find the culprits.

Second sight: A Paul Christopher novel

Hutchinson

The Last Supper

British & Irish

Arrow

<p>1985 Arrow Books mass market paperback, British Import. CHARLES MCCARRY (Tears of Autumn: A Paul Christopher Novel). A nervous courier delivers the handwritten manuscript of a dissident Russian novel to Paul Christopher early one morning in West Berlin. Minutes after the handoff, the courier's spine is neatly snapped by an impact with a passing black sedan. Meanwhile in Rome, Christopher's wife Cathy takes a famous film director as a lover to stir her husband out of the stoicism that defines his personality.</p>

The Secret Lovers

Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

Arrow Books, Ltd.

Second Sight

Citizen Nader: Ralph Nader

Thrillers & Suspense

CAPE.

Coronet Books

Hodder&Stoughton

From the back of the book: Five international agents- each spinning a web of deception. Each one a spider. Each one a fly. But who was Tadeusz Miernik? A shy and bumbling scientist or the leader of a terror force that could set the Cold War aflame!

The Mernik Dossier

Ballantine

Now back in print, the prophetic thriller from "the best writer of intelligence and political novels in the world" (The Boston Globe) When Charles McCarry's The Better Angels was first published almost 30 years ago, its premise--that terrorists would use passenger-filled airliners as tools of terror--seemed incredible. In retrospect, the novel would prove to be prophetic. The Better Angels takes place in an election year close to the turn of the century in a deeply polarized America. The presidential race matches a tall, lantern-jawed liberal to a far-right former businessman with deep ties to the energy industry. Meanwhile, Islamic terrorists led by an oil-rich Arab prince, desperate to acquire nuclear bombs to use against Israel or major American cities, disrupt the presidential campaign through a series of bloody suicide bombing. Finally the election itself is stolen, as one side hacks into computerized voting systems to change the tallies in key states. From the writer the New York Times Book Review called "the genuine article," The Better Angels is a thrilling and relevant masterwork.

The Better Angels

Fawcett

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