Second Sight
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Leaping from the present day to Hitler's invasion of Poland, and from Europe to North Africa, Vietnam, and Central America, this big, sprawling, convoluted, and brilliant tale is the seventh novel about spy Paul Christopher and his family. Agents of the Outfit are being snatched, drugged, and emptied of all their secrets--then released unharmed and euphoric. Christopher, now retired, is drawn back into action, assigned to neutralize the threat. Told both in flashbacks (the visions of a clairvoyant Berber woman) and through a standard, if lapidary, narrative, the novel is both a family saga and a spy novel. It's also, like McCarry's acclaimed Old Boys0 (2004), a kind of elegy for the bright young men from the Ivies who served in the CIA during the cold war. Second Sight0 has everything a good espionage novel should have: compelling and fully fleshed characters, exotic locales knowingly described, love, betrayal, derring-do, honor, cynicism, and redemption. And in this brief Dan Brown moment in publishing history, it even has a tribe of Jewish Berbers who have pretended to be Muslims for more than two millennia. Originally published in 1991, the novel quickly disappeared. With a McCarry revival in full swing, now is the right time for it to be resurrected. --Thomas Gaughan Copyright 2007 Booklist

McCarry has been on a roll thanks to the popularity of Old Boys and his other hit espionage novels. This 1991 outing finds his signature character, Paul Christopher, called out of retirement to help solve the puzzle of who is kidnapping U.S. agents in the Middle East and draining them of information. McCarry has a pretty solid following, so buy this one. (c) Copyright 2010. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.

McCarry has been on a roll thanks to the popularity of Old Boys and his other hit espionage novels. This 1991 outing finds his signature character, Paul Christopher, called out of retirement to help solve the puzzle of who is kidnapping U.S. agents in the Middle East and draining them of information. McCarry has a pretty solid following, so buy this one.