'A thinking man's thriller' Newsweek 'McCarry is the best modern writer on the subject of intrigue - by the breadth of Alan Furst, by the fathom of Eric Ambler, by any measure' P J O'Rourke 'No one can tell a story like McCarry' Richard Condon 'The best spy novelists were once spies themselves, including le Carre, Greene and McCarry' The New York Times 'There is no better American spy novelist' TIME Magazine 'Charles McCarry - resides in the upper reaches of spy fiction's Mount Olympus' Boston Globe

Charles McCarry established an international reputation with the publication of the worldwide bestseller The Tears of Autumn in 1975 and is the author of nine other critically acclaimed novels. During the Cold War he was an intelligence office operating under deep cover in Europe, Africa, and Asia.