Charles McCarry Libros

With ferocious suspense and masterful pacing, Charles McCarry delivers a haunting parable of a man confronted with the ghosts of an entire generation's brutal history.

The dazzling first novel from the American master of spy fiction that launched the Paul Christopher series

Kennedy has just been assassinated. Charles McCarry's serial spy Paul Christopher knows why.

'Thank God McCarry has written another book. I've been waiting years to find what happened to that old boy Paul Christopher' Elmore Leonard Paul Christopher, a crack ex-intelligence agent, has disappeared. Months later his ashes are delivered by a Chinese official to the American consulate in Beijing. But his cousin Horace, also an ex-agent, is not convinced Christopher is dead and decides to enlist the help of four other retired colleagues. Beginning with a photograph of a woman's hand holding a centuries-old scroll, once in the possession of the Nazis and now sought by the American government, the old boys' search takes them around the globe in their hunt for the truth.

Aféry Jacka Adamse, hlavního hrdiny románu Parchant, se až nápadně podobají skandálům, které nedávno otřásly postavením bývalého prvního muže Ameriky, Billa Clintona. Pohledný a bezcharakterní Jack, údajně nemanželský syn J. F. Kennedyho, touží po moci a neméně tak i po ženách. Shodou okolností zasáhnou do jeho života agenti sovětské tajné služby. Líbivý úsměv, vemlouvavé chování, ambiciózní menželka a především peníze, Jackovi pomohou dostat se mezi americké politické špičky. Za závratnou kariéru se ovšem platí!

Das ferne Glück - bk1252; Blanvalet im C. Bertelsmann Verlag; Charles McCarry; Paperback; 1990