Charles McCarry Poradie kníh

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.

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.

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.

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