Christophers Ghosts, Charles McCarry
Christophers Ghosts, Charles McCarry
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Christophers Ghosts
A Paul Christopher Novel

Author: Charles McCarry

Narrator: Stefan Rudnicki

Unabridged: 11 hr 29 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 01/01/2006

Synopsis

With cinematic scope and masterful pacing, Charles McCarry delivers a haunting parable of a man confronted with the ghosts of an entire generation's brutal history. The grand tale begins in 1939 Berlin, where young Paul Christopher and his family are struggling against the rise of Nazi totalitarianism. The Christophers are known to be sympathetic to the persecuted Jews, while sixteenyearold Paul has fallen in love with the daughter of a Jewish doctor. Their enemy is a sadistic SS officer named Stutzer, who will stop at nothing to destroy the young couple. Twenty years later, top CIA agent Paul Christopher is the only living witness to Stutzers crimes. As he edges toward a confrontation with this mortal enemy, Christopher is forced to operate in the one theater he had thought he had mastered: his own past.

About Charles McCarry

Charles McCarry is the author of ten critically acclaimed novels and nine nonfiction books. He is a former editor-at-large of National Geographic and has contributed dozens of articles, short stories, and poems to leading national magazines. His op-ed pieces and other essays have appeared in the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and Washington Post. For ten years he served under deep cover as a CIA operations officer.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Erica on January 31, 2013

Christopher novel fans will be pleased with Charles McCarry's tenth, and perhaps most coherent, novel in the series. As with many of the Christopher novels, McCarry devotes his attention to Paul Christopher's back story, which has been spun out over so many books that one has to wonder if it has dev......more

Goodreads review by Viola on November 14, 2023

The characters were interesting, but I would have enjoyed the story more with more background on Christopher. This is the end of the series, and I think it would be important to read th4e beginning of the series first.......more

Goodreads review by Michael on July 12, 2024

One of Mr. McCarry's best in this series. Full disclosure: I read this while living in Berlin for the past two months. This MAY have influenced my five-star review. Cheers!......more

Goodreads review by Scott on March 05, 2014

Thoroughly enjoyed this Paul Christopher novel by Charles McCarry. It had been quite a novel since I had read a McCarry novel but I remember being really impressed by the Tears of Autumn. This novel is presented in two segments: pre-World War II, Berlin in 1939; and 1959, the Cold War era when Paul......more

Goodreads review by Douglas on May 06, 2020

Just finished another novel by one of my new favorite authors, Charles McCarry. CHRISTOPHER'S GHOSTS provides insight into the early life of Paul Christopher who matures as spook in the US intelligence community. The story takes place in East Germany before and after WWII. Paul's parents were operat......more

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