The Tears of Autumn - Charles McCarry [120]
“Yes. I still do.”
“Then you must feel the same way about my body.”
“What I feel for you is love, not jurisdiction. That wasn’t enough for Cathy.”
“I own myself, just as Cathy did, then,” Molly said. “She chose to abuse her body, and broke her heart. What I choose is this: I’ll give up my body and lay it in the earth before I’ll go away from you.”
She turned off the light and turned her back. Christopher saw that not even a lie would change her mind. In Molly, love was a force as ruthless as the one that ruled him. To respond in kind was beyond him. He had been dyed, heart and memory, by the life he had lived, and not even Molly, willing to be murdered in order to prove to him that love was possible, could rescue him from what he knew about himself. Molly had taught him to feel again, but not that it mattered.
Molly moved under the featherbed and fitted her body against his, warm skin and hair that smelled of wind and wood-smoke. Before Christopher went to sleep, he thought again, out of long habit, of the things he knew he could say and do to outwit the simplicity of her passion. But he gave up: his betrayals had not saved Luong or Cathy or any of the others. Lovers and agents, living within their secret, could not be saved, or even be warned, by treachery.
Molly murmured in her sleep and threw a nerveless arm across his chest. Christopher felt her pulse on his own skin.
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‘McCarry is back… rich in suspense, colourful characters,
sudden surprises and detail. His prose, as always, is
elegance itself ’ Washington Post
CHRISTOPHER’S
GHOSTS
A Paul Christopher novel
It is the late 1930s, and a young Christopher bears witness to an unspeakable atrocity committed by a remorseless SS officer. When the action moves forward to the height of the Cold War, 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 of tiger chasing tiger as Christopher is pursued by the only man who can match his craft or his instincts. 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.
ebook ISBN 978 0 7156 3960 3
‘Arguably the finest modern American spy story’
New York Times
THE MIERNIK
DOSSIER
A Paul Christopher novel
Cool, urbane Paul Christopher is the perfect American agent, currently working in deep cover in the twilight world of international intrigue. But now even he cannot tell good from bad in a maze of double- and triple-cross. As group of international agents embark on a trip in a Cadillac from Switzerland to the Sudan, Christopher knows that he has to find which one is about to unleash bloody terrorism – and God help everyone if he makes a mistake.
Originally published in 1973, this compelling and distinctive thriller was the debut of the now celebrated Charles McCarry and is the first book to introduce readers to Paul Christopher. Finally back in paperback, The Miernik Dossier will introduce a new generation of readers to the work of one of the great spy novelists.
ebook ISBN 978 0 7156 3957 3
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Table of Contents
Cover
Series Page
Also by Charles McCarry
Title Page
Copyright
Dedication
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