Second Sight

Since his reemergence with the publication of Old Boys, Charles McCarry has been heralded as one of the select few espionage novelists who manages to break out of his genre to shine as a brilliant and unique novelist. Second Sight is seventh in the series that follows the legendary spy Paul Christopher--a man ensnared by a line of work that never failed to exert its insidious influence outside professional boundaries. Now retired and living the quiet life as a loving husband in Washington, D.C., Christopher has survived battlefields of World War II, undercover Cold War killing grounds, and imprisonment in China. But now, throughout the Arab world, U.S. agents are being kidnapped and brain-drained by an unidentified enemy armed with a diabolical new drug. Christopher's old friend and superior in "the Outfit" calls with a command he feels he must obey. But what begins for Christopher as a global manhunt swiftly turns into something far closer to home. For the key to the danger he must defuse is a secret buried deep in his own perilous past. In a breathtaking, nerve-twisting plot that spins its way from pre-Nazi Germany to Vietnam, through love affairs and murders, old scores have to be settled, grim reckonings must be made. And at the apex of suspense, a ravishing, strangely gifted Berber woman reappears like a half-forgotten memory, holding the future in her mind's eye and Paul Christopher's fate in her hands. McCarry's mastery is unmatched as he weaves past and present together in this world-spanning thriller, transporting the reader into the minds of those who work, live and love within a world of secrets.


Genre: Thriller