Onetime secret agent Paul Christopher, enjoying his retirement in Washington, D.C., is called back into service when U.S. agents throughout the Middle East are kidnapped and exposed to a dangerous drug by an unknown adversary.

Retired agent Horace Christopher enlists the aid of four other retired colleagues to find his cousin, intelligence operative Paul Christopher, who has mysteriously vanished and is presumed dead.

To solve his lover's murder, a spy must investigate his own checkered past in a thriller that spans from Weimar Germany to Cold War Vietnam. CIA Agent Paul Christopher is used to the feeling of dread. So he doesn't think much of Molly Benson's concerns as he leaves her bed in Paris for a quick trip to Vietnam. But minutes after Christopher boards the jet, his lover falls victim to a vehicular homicide. To explain this seemingly senseless murder,...

"As soon as he began publishing fiction more than three decades ago, Charles McCarry was recognized as a spy novelist of uncommon gifts" wrote Charles Trueheart in The Washington Post. Tears of Autumn, McCarry's riveting novel of espionage and foreign affairs, was a major bestseller upon its first publication in 1975. Spun with unsettling plausibility from the events surrounding the assassination of John F. Kennedy, and featuring Paul Christopher,...