Monday, April 21, 2008
McCarry
I've been enjoying the Paul Christopher series by Charles McCarry (Tears of Autumn and The Miernick Dossier so far) very much. Fascinating plots, well-written and distinctive main character who is both a spy and a culture maven, and who writes poetry. A companion piece to Richard Condon's Winter Kills for assassination hounds, Tears of Autumn formulates a theory of the Kennedy assassination which is highly unusual and altogether plausible. In fact, when photos of Ruby and Oswald were recently released by the JFK Library because the requisite time period has passed, I was quite taken aback because their knowing each other is a crucial and revelatory piece in Tears of Autumn's carefully constructed solution to the puzzle.
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