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by: Charles McCarry
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Binding: Hardcover
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.54
EAN: 9781585678785
ISBN: 1585678783
Label: Overlook Hardcover
Manufacturer: Overlook Hardcover
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 480
Publication Date: October 18, 2007
Publisher: Overlook Hardcover
Release Date: September 20, 2007
Sales Rank: 30179
Studio: Overlook Hardcover
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Product Description:
Charles McCarry has long been heralded as one of the select espionage writers who shines as a brilliant and unique novelist in his own right. Second Sight is the seventh in the series that follows the legendary spy Paul Christopher--a man ensnared by a line of work that never fails to exert its insidious influence outside professional boundaries.
Throughout the Arab world, U.S. agents are being kidnapped and brain-drained by an unidentified enemy armed with a diabolical new drug. Christopher's old friend and superior in 'The Outfit' calls him out of quiet retirement with a command he feels he must obey. But what begins for Christopher as a global manhunt swiftly turns into something far closer to home. For the key to the danger he must defuse is a secret buried deep in his own perilous past.
In a breathtaking, nerve-twisting plot that spins its way from pre-Nazi Germany to Vietnam, old scores have to be settled, grim reckonings must be made. And at the bottom of it all, a ravishing, strangely gifted Berber woman reappears like a half-forgotten memory, holding Paul Christopher's fate in her hands. McCarry's mastery is unmatched as he weaves past and present together in this world of secrets.
Customer Reviews
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Rating:  - Maybe not what you expected
If you want to read a well written novel, this new Charles McCarry work, purportedly the last book about Paul Christopher, is worth while. McCarry is a fine writer. But if you are expecting a pulsating, clever spy story to take to the beach, don't believe a word of the publisher's blurb on the inside of the dust cover. It is not a thriller in any sense of the word and I dropped it well short of page 480.
Rating: - Would probably have liked it better if I had read earlier books in the series
Second Sight was my first exposure to Charles McCarry. I thought the story line was creative, and the characters fully drawn and compelling. Great stuff here for fans of the spy novel, especially if you like the early days of the CIA right after WWII.
But, as I was reading the book I could tell that there was a lot of history to these characters (and between these characters) that I was missing. The novel felt like a final good-bye to Paul Christopher and his compatriots. Only later ... Read More
Rating:  - McCarry is the Best, Bar None
Choosing the best Charles McCarry novel is like choosing the best Mozart Sonata. There is no best, there are only favorites. There is a lovely scene in this book where the head of the "Outfit," McCarry's version of the CIA, and his sweet, wonderful wife entertain a trendy rich radically chic couple. The scene sums up everything that was wrong about the 60s and even if the rest of the book wasn't such a delight, would make reading the book worthwhile.
Rating: - Second Sight Sucked Me In
An entertaining spy novel. Have not read predicessors in the series, so had no expectations. Main characters were interesting, specially the evil ones.
Sceptics must suspend antigonism to premise that one main character has "second sight" that can affect outcome. It was a pleasure to read a novel written by an author who honors plot and knows his classics. And is obviously familair with the tricks of the spy trade. I plan to find McCarry's earlier spy novels and read them.
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