Old Boys
OLD BOYS For those of us who relish old-fashioned, sophisticated spy stories in the Ian Fleming or John LeCarre mode, Charles McCarry’s novels are always a treat. Old Boys, the latest (and final?) in his Paul Christopher series, displays all of McCarry’s cerebral talent. As his narrator comments midway through the book, none of the […]
True Believers
True Believers is a book for boomers, the generation that came of age in the 1960’s, a turbulent time of political unrest in America. There were protests against the seemingly endless war in Southeast Asia. There were assassinations of public figures. Some of the protests were violent, as were the responses from law enforcement. And it […]