Old Boys
Author(s): Charles McCarry
When Horace Hubbard's cousin, Paul Christopher, goes missing and is presumed dead, the CIA 'old boys' come out of retirement to help find one of their former colleagues, one of their own. Hunting, and being hunted, from Xinjiang to Brazil, Rome, Tel Aviv, Budapest and Moscow, the old pros, along with Christopher's beautiful daughter Zarah, search for their comrade and the answers to his disappearance. "Old Boys" is, at heart, a lament for a dying generation of American spies. With its almost indescribable plot of Chinese forced-labour camps, sundry ex-Nazis, ex-KGB men and double-crossers galore, it is a great tribute to McCarry's skill and excellent writing that he manages to carry the action-filled plot, and have the reader carried willingly with him.
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'There is no better American spy novelist. It's like the best parts of ten John le Carre novels all put together ' - Time 'The nonstop peregrinations of this league of extraordinary spooks take them to a score of exotic locales, pitting them against Chechen thugs, Chinese secret police, Nazi doctors, and a case of acute myocardial fibrillation. McCarry's commitment to this fanciful premise is absolute, and the resulting yarn combines the intrepid exploits of John Buchan, the cagey intrigue of Eric Ambler, and the clipped cadences of Dashiell Hammett. Tremendous fun.' - Booklist, David Wright
General Fields
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- : Duckworth
- : Duckworth
- : 0.348359
- : 30 April 2012
- : 196mm X 128mm
- : United Kingdom
- : 01 March 2013
- : books
Special Fields
- : 512
- : 1
- : Paperback
- : Charles McCarry
