The Miernik Dossier, Charles McCarry
The Miernik Dossier, Charles McCarry
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The Miernik Dossier

Author: Charles McCarry

Narrator: various readers

Unabridged: 9 hr 39 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 01/01/2006


Synopsis

In The Miernik Dossier, international agents embark on a car trip in a Cadillac, traveling from Switzerland to the Sudan. Among them are an American operative; a sevenfoottall Muslim prince; a beautiful halfEnglish, halfHungarian woman; a British national; and Tadeusz Miernik, the shy and bumbling Polish scientist who might be the leader of a terror force that could set the Cold War aflame. Related as a collection of dossier notes written by the five agents, the novel reveals a complicated web in which each spins his or own deception.

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 Jeffrey

On his experience being a deep-cover agent for the CIA: "It's one of the most boring occupations in the world, punctuated by moments of ecstasy. You sit around for days, sometimes for weeks, waiting for something you think you have made happen, to happen. And sometimes it does, and sometimes it does......more

Here goes a maverick: the possibly dullest spy novel in existence, ever, which paradoxically makes you read it till the very end. And the plot? It goes like a bad joke: a bunch of spies from different countries enter a bar... only in this case they keep doing that all the time, they meet and travel.......more

Goodreads review by John

This time I was not as dubious. The first time I encountered a novel fashioned solely of various reports from a variety of sources, it was a book called The Anderson Tapes by Lawrence Sanders, and I responded in part: “I have to admit I had my doubts: a novel told entirely through the transcripts of......more

Goodreads review by Nancy

I must confess that after the Berlin Wall came down, I had this feeling that that was it for the Cold War spy novel. So I was truly happy to find this book, which was written in 1971, so I could once again relive the Cold War spy experience. The Miernik Dossier (the first of the Paul Christopher ser......more

Goodreads review by Philip

This is a pretty remarkable book. The Miernik Dossier indeed takes the form of a case file, told completely through incident reports, CIA cable traffic, police logs, interview/interrogation transcripts, diary excerpts, etc. - an early example of the type of epistolary writing which has become increa......more