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While others have used the "assembled documents" mechanism to tell complex spy stories, McCarry's take serves to highlight the inherent ambiguities of espionage, particularly for its practitioners. At one point one of the characters talks about his work as coming in after the story's begun and leaving before it ends, which in some ways is the best synopsis I can give for the book. You'll be left with nearly as many questions as you begin with, but the narrative style works exceptionally well to
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I'm always game to rediscover a crime or spy series from the past, so I recently picked up this first book in the ten-volume "Paul Christopher" series, which came out fifty years ago. The author was an undercover CIA agent in the 1950s and 60s, and drew upon his background for this series about an American spy. Although it should be noted that in this first book, Christopher is just one in a large cast of characters and doesn't really take center stage until near the end.
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