Books : The Secret Lovers
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by: Charles Mccarry
Binding: Paperback
EAN: 9781855014510
ISBN: 1855014513
Label: Sheridan
Manufacturer: Sheridan
Publication Date: 1993
Publisher: Sheridan
Studio: Sheridan
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Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating:  - Elegant story telling
I've now read book three (The Secret Lovers) in the seven-part Paul Christopher series, and I think it is the best so far -- a good mystery as much as it was a good spy novel. I disagree with those who say this book is tedious. It needs virtually no action because the cat-and-mouse descriptions of the various players chasing each other around through their various feints just keeps teasing your curiosity about who done it. The story of Carolos in the latter pages was fabulous. Solid 4 stars.
Rating: - A complex adventure
Plotted with intricacy, this spy story has interesting and attractive characters, convincing detail, and tone in its characters' speeches that takes the reader to the time and locale.
Rating:  - Throw Cathy from the train
As much as I enjoyed Old Boys and Ghosts, I just couldn't get past the dreadful Cathy. Paul Christopher's first love age 16 (Rima)had character, brains and nerve. Christopher's choice of Cathy, a neurotic, rather stupid, slutty mess, simply doesn't ring true.
Rating:  - i wonder if mccarry knew her
found this book in the dollar section of the local library charity bin, lost it on the plane, went through security to retrieve it, and that was after 25 pages. secret lovers, seductive title for my bookcase, but once you understand the secrets are spies, and real ones, the lovers and what their need for secrets create has stayed with me for years, images constant, and i see daniel craig as paul christopher, too bad for the timing, but still looking for my cathy. this gives dinner party talk ... Read More
Rating: - None Better - but read before listening to it!
The Secret Lovers by McCarry is a cold-eyed but fully engaged odessey of love, the emotional and analytical paths of betrayal and its unraveling, and the imitation of life that is tradecraft.
If you found a lifetime of enjoyment in LeCarre's Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy (i.e., if you re-read it every few years just to spend a day with an old friend) you will find the same kind of unforgetable stories and characters in this novel, only a few more of them, and most of them a little more ... Read More
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