- Paperback: 288 pages
- Publisher: Scribe Publications (Nov 24 2008)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 1921372265
- ISBN-13: 978-1921372261
- Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
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Paul Christopher, an agent who is his own man with a personal and political inviolability you seldom meet, acts on private beliefs prompted by subconscious images of deja vu after he is sure that JFK's assassination was in retaliation for the just previous killings of Diem and Nhu. Ordered to drop this investigation which also threatens the life of his girl, Christopher follows up on the connections within the toc (the family tree - Diem and Nhu were just fallen leaves from its lower branches) to Le Thu (the tears of autumn), both a person and a code name geomantically keyed to the somber day in Dallas. No time for jet lag - this travels east and west in a sleek and always urgent fashion. (Kirkus Reviews)
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Spun with unsettling plausibility from the events surrounding the assassination of John F. Kennedy, and featuring secret agent Paul Christopher, "The Tears of Autumn" was a major bestseller upon its publication in 1975, and this riveting novel of espionage and foreign affairs remains just as gripping today. Christopher, at the height of his powers, believes he knows who arranged the assassination, and why. His theory is so destructive to the legend of the dead president, and so dangerous to the survival of foreign policy, that he is ordered to halt his investigation. But he is a man who lives by, and for, the truth - and his internal compunctions force him to the heart of the matter. After resigning from the Agency, he embarks on a tour of investigation that takes him from Paris to Rome, Zurich, the Congo and Saigon. Threatened by Kennedy's assassins and by his own government, Christopher follows the scent of his suspicion - one breath behind the truth, one step ahead of discovery and death.
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5.0 out of 5 stars
Don't pass this one by,
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This review is from: Tears of Autumn (Paperback)
I also stumbled across The Tears of Autumn a long time ago, and have never forgotten it. I went on to read and enjoy a number of McCarry's novels, particularly The Last Supper and The Better Angels. But no one I've talked books with in the fifteen or so years since then has ever brought up his name. Which I find sad and weird, because Charles McCarry is up there with LeCarre and Robert Stone (not Oliver, nor strictly a thriller writer, but nonetheless). Not only is hero and narrative viewpoint Paul Christopher one of the few fictional spies as interesting as George Smiley, but the plot of Tears of Autumn is genuinely original, compelling, disturbing, thoroughly plausible--all you could ever ask from a thriller. Put it next to DeLillo's Libra and you have two utterly contradictory scenarios for what lay behind Dallas '63 that both feel true. Oh, and did I mention he could write? I mean the pages turn themselves and the world around you fades until the story ends. Then it lingers with you. He can write. Blah blah. I won't go on further because, like I say, it's been years. I only came here because I'd forgotten the exact title of "that Kennedy assassination book". But when I got here I found myself wanting to add my praise to that of the two previous reviewers and to wholeheartedly recommend it, along with the McCarry's other Paul Christopher novels, to anyone who's curious. It's well worth dipping into. Not to be missed, really, if you like good spy books (or well-constructed conspiracy theories).
5.0 out of 5 stars
Re-reading The Tears of Autumn,
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This review is from: Tears of Autumn (Paperback)
I remember reading and enjoying Charles McCarry's "Tears of Autumn" many years ago. Re-reading it, I find that it quietly comes up with a very plausible theory for the Kennedy assasination. It is not the typical spy novel--nor is Paul Christopher the typical spy. There's an intelligence and sensitivity to Christopher that James Bond lacks. The evocation of various locales--Vietnam before the war, the Congo, France, and Italy--are amazing. Christopher's friends, the Websters and Patchen, are also well-drawn. A very rewarding read. Why has this excellent novel never been made into a film, Hollywood or otherwise?
4.0 out of 5 stars
An overlooked masterpiece,
By A Customer
This review is from: Tears Of Autumn (Paperback)
This is a wonderful novel about Vietnam, the Kennedy assassination and other modern fascinations. "The Tears of Autumn" is an early McCarry work that shows the seeds of his later greatness. Anyone who is nominally interested in historical fiction or spy novels will love this book.
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