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Paul Christopher novels volume 2
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Paris, 1963. CIA agent Paul Christopher, just returned from assignment in Vietnam, meets a senior member of John F. Kennedy's Washington staff. Like a lot of the Kennedy crowd, he is young, brash, and convinced that the new president's appetite for political action will change the world.
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Paul Christopher novels volume 7
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A CIA agent faces off against a sadistic SS officer in this Cold War spy thriller that "will have readers on the edge of their seats" (Bookmarks Magazine).
It is the late 1930s, and a young Christopher bears witness to an unspeakable atrocity committed by a remorseless SS officer. Fast forward to the height of the Cold War, and the SS man emerges out of the ruins of post-war Germany to destroy the last living witness to his crime. It's a case...
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Paul Christopher novels volume 3
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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. These two seemingly discrete events set in motion a spiral of operational and personal intrigue that leads Christopher from meetings with an aging agent in the cafes of old Europe to a rendezvous...
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Paul Christopher novels volume 4
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The murder of CIA agent Paul Christopher's lover in Paris minutes after he leaves for Vietnam in the 1960s, sets the stage for a backward look at his family history which parallels that of the agency, and leads to a shocking revelation about Molly Benson's death.
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Paul Christopher novels volume 1
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English
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A small group of international agents embark on a car trip from Switzerland to the Sudan, a journey marked by the actions of one of the travelers, who might be the leader of a terrorist group responsible for starting the Cold War.
6) Old boys
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Paul Christopher novels volume 6
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In his magnificent new novel, with rights sold in six countries before publication, 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....
7) Second sight
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Paul Christopher novels volume 5
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Onetime secret agent Paul Christopher, enjoying his retirement in Washington, D.C., is called back into service when U.S. agents throughout the Middle East are kidnapped and exposed to a dangerous drug by an unknown adversary.
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In Washington, a secret political society tries to exploit a president's impeachment in order to establish a dictatorship. The story begins when newly elected president Bedford Lockwood is accused by his opponent of rigging votes. By the author of The Better Angels.
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Born in squalid London at the turn of the eighteenth century, a girl makes a fresh start in the New World Fanny's father, Henry Harding, has known Oliver Barebones since the two men were children. Together they survived the Great Plague and the Great Fire, and now they are rich, middle-aged, and unmarried. Everyone's shocked when Oliver, a lifelong bachelor, falls headfirst for a superstitious young girl named Rose. In two days he's decided to marry...
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