![]() New England White By Stephen L Carter Jonathan Cape 556pp £17. But you don't need to be familiar with the characters to read this beautifully written book. For McCarry fans the story fills in some gaps in the career of one of espionage fiction's most interesting heroes and incidentally explains some of the tantalising hints in the previous volume. No happy outcome to the love affair was possible, but revenge is sweet. The second half of the book jumps to postwar Europe, when Paul is a CIA operative and is running a private operation to track down the Gestapo major. ![]() But his wife is a German, endeavouring in desperate secrecy to make a bargain with the authorities and meanwhile Paul is playing but losing the undefined battle with the Gestapo major who has discovered his secret: he has fallen in love with the daughter of a Jewish doctor. Driving home through a swirling blizzard late one night, the couple skids off the road. ![]() Sixteen-year-old Paul understands more of what's going on around him than his novelist father, who cannot believe that American immunity won’t protect his family. NATIONAL BESTSELLERLemaster Carlyle, the president of the countrys most prestigious university, and his wife, Julie, the divinity schools deputy dean, are Americas most prominent and powerful African American couple. Even if you haven't come across any previous episodes in this series about a family of spies, Christopher's Ghosts would be worth reading for its convincing portrayal of an American family in Berlin in 1939. ![]()
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