Second Sight - Paperback

by Charles McCarry (Author)

A master spy confronts the ghosts of his past in a world where memory is the deadliest weapon.

In Second Sight, the seventh installment of Charles McCarry's acclaimed Paul Christopher series, the legendary spy is drawn out of retirement and into a global manhunt that quickly turns personal.

U.S. agents across the Arab world are being abducted and brainwashed by a mysterious enemy wielding a mind-altering drug. When Christopher's former superior in "the Outfit" calls on him, he cannot refuse-even as the mission leads him back into the shadows of his own history.

From pre-Nazi Germany to Cold War battlegrounds, from Vietnam to Washington, D.C., McCarry's narrative spans continents and decades, weaving a tale of espionage, betrayal, and reckoning. At its heart is a gifted Berber woman whose visions may hold the key to Christopher's fate.

With lyrical prose and taut suspense, Second Sight explores the cost of secrets and the power of memory in a world built on deception.

Front Jacket

Since his reemergence with the publication of Old Boys, Charles McCarry has been heralded as one of the select few novelists of espionage who manage 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 Christophera 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.

Author Biography

Charles McCarry (1930-2019) worked for several years for the Central Intelligence Agency. He wrote 10 novels about Paul Christopher, as well as many other novels and nonfiction books.