| Tears of Autumn by Charles McCarry is a spy novel that manages to also be a historical thriller.  The hero of this story is an experienced U. S. undercover agent named Paul Christopher who finds himself caught up in the circumstances surrounding the assassination of President John F. Kennedy.  The story follows his attempts to convince his superiors of his take on the situation leading up to the assassination and obtain the evidence to support his ideas. It is an exciting, quick paced and believable read. The book is well written, well researched, and in the end may have you second guessing your personal beliefs regarding the Kennedy assassination.
This is one of several Paul Christopher books by the author but the first that I have read. The book was good enough that, even though I am not normally a spy novel devote, I would be tempted to read another in the series. |
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Mar 29
| Just read Beat the Reaper, by Josh Bazel, and liked it? That question mark is not an error because I don’t really understand why I liked it. It was a rough book. Rough language, gratuitous violence and sexual references were liberally applied throughout the book. Indeed the whole premise was kind of rough. The hero was a twenty something Mafia hitman who becomes a doctor through the witness protection system, and is working in a chaotic urban hospital. When the two parts of his life come in contact the story goes into “rough” overdrive. The structure of the book is strange and shifts between being a crime/mystery thriller and a medical journal but it manages to work somehow. Like I said, hard to tell why, but I liked it. |
