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County, Virginia</a>, U.S.</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="line-height:1.2em; padding-right:0.65em;">Occupation</th><td class="infobox-data role" style="line-height:1.4em;">Author</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="line-height:1.2em; padding-right:0.65em;">Period</th><td class="infobox-data" style="line-height:1.4em;">1961–2019</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="line-height:1.2em; padding-right:0.65em;">Genre</th><td class="infobox-data category" style="line-height:1.4em;"><a href="/wiki/Spy_fiction" title="Spy fiction">Spy fiction</a></td></tr></tbody></table> <p><b>Charles McCarry</b> (June 14, 1930 – February 26, 2019)<sup id="cite_ref-:0_1-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:0-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> was an American writer, primarily of <a href="/wiki/Spy_fiction" title="Spy fiction">spy fiction</a>, and a former <a href="/wiki/Espionage" title="Espionage">undercover operative</a> for the <a href="/wiki/Central_Intelligence_Agency" title="Central Intelligence Agency">Central Intelligence Agency</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-WaPo_Obit_2-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-WaPo_Obit-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Biography">Biography</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Charles_McCarry&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Biography"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>McCarry's family came from <a href="/wiki/The_Berkshires" class="mw-redirect" title="The Berkshires">The Berkshires</a> area of western <a href="/wiki/Massachusetts" title="Massachusetts">Massachusetts</a>. He was born in <a href="/wiki/Pittsfield" class="mw-redirect" title="Pittsfield">Pittsfield</a>, and lived in Virginia.<sup id="cite_ref-:0_1-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:0-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-morning_news_3-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-morning_news-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He graduated from Dalton High School.<sup id="cite_ref-hitch2_4-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-hitch2-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>McCarry began his writing career in the <a href="/wiki/United_States_Army" title="United States Army">United States Army</a> as a correspondent for <i><a href="/wiki/Stars_and_Stripes_(newspaper)" title="Stars and Stripes (newspaper)">Stars and Stripes</a></i>. He served from 1948 to 1951 and achieved the rank of sergeant.<sup id="cite_ref-hitch2_4-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-hitch2-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He received initial training at <a href="/wiki/Fort_Benning" class="mw-redirect" title="Fort Benning">Fort Benning</a>, Georgia, and was stationed in Germany for almost two years and at <a href="/wiki/Fort_Pickett" class="mw-redirect" title="Fort Pickett">Camp Pickett</a>, Virginia for about a year.<sup id="cite_ref-hitch2_4-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-hitch2-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>After his army service, he was a speechwriter in the early Administration of <a href="/wiki/Dwight_D._Eisenhower" title="Dwight D. Eisenhower">President Dwight D. Eisenhower</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In 1958, at the invitation of <a href="/wiki/Cord_Meyer" title="Cord Meyer">Cord Meyer</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> he accepted a post with the CIA, for whom he traveled the globe as a deep cover operative.<sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He took a leave of absence to work for the <a href="/wiki/1960_United_States_presidential_election" title="1960 United States presidential election">1960 Nixon campaign</a>, writing for vice-presidential candidate <a href="/wiki/Henry_Cabot_Lodge_Jr." title="Henry Cabot Lodge Jr.">Henry Cabot Lodge</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-WaPo_Obit_2-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-WaPo_Obit-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He left the CIA for the last time in 1967, becoming a writer of spy novels.<sup id="cite_ref-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>McCarry was also an editor-at-large for <i><a href="/wiki/National_Geographic_(magazine)" class="mw-redirect" title="National Geographic (magazine)">National Geographic</a></i> and contributed pieces to <i><a href="/wiki/The_New_York_Times" title="The New York Times">The New York Times</a></i>, <i><a href="/wiki/The_Wall_Street_Journal" title="The Wall Street Journal">The Wall Street Journal</a></i>, <i><a href="/wiki/The_Washington_Post" title="The Washington Post">The Washington Post</a></i>, the <i><a href="/wiki/Saturday_Evening_Post" class="mw-redirect" title="Saturday Evening Post">Saturday Evening Post</a></i>, and other national publications.<sup id="cite_ref-:0_1-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:0-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Approach_to_writing">Approach to writing</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Charles_McCarry&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Approach to writing"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>McCarry believed that "the best novels are about ordinary things: love, betrayal, death, trust, loneliness, marriage, fatherhood."<sup id="cite_ref-Strip_11-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Strip-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In 1988 McCarry described the themes of his novels to date as "ordinary things – love, death, betrayal and the American dream."<sup id="cite_ref-How_to_Write_Spy_Novels_12-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-How_to_Write_Spy_Novels-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>McCarry wrote that: "After I resigned [from the CIA], intending to spend the rest of my life writing fiction and knowing what tricks the mind can play when the gates are thrown wide open, as they are by the act of writing, between the imagination and that part of the brain in which information is stored, I took the precaution of writing a closely remembered narrative of my clandestine experiences. After correcting the manuscript, I burned it. What I kept for my own use was the atmosphere of secret life: How it worked on the five senses and what it did to the heart and mind. All the rest went up in flames, setting me free henceforth to make it all up. In all important matters, such as the creation of characters and the invention of plots, with rare and minor exceptions, that is what I have done. And, as might be expected, when I have been weak enough to use something that really happened as an episode in a novel, it is that piece of scrap, buried in a landfill of the imaginary, readers invariably refuse to believe."<sup id="cite_ref-Charles_McCarry_1994_13-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Charles_McCarry_1994-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>McCarry was an admirer of the work of <a href="/wiki/Eric_Ambler" title="Eric Ambler">Eric Ambler</a><sup id="cite_ref-:0_1-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:0-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and <a href="/wiki/W._Somerset_Maugham" title="W. Somerset Maugham">W. Somerset Maugham</a>, especially the latter's <a href="/wiki/Ashenden:_Or_the_British_Agent" title="Ashenden: Or the British Agent">Ashenden</a> stories. He was also an admirer of <a href="/wiki/Richard_Condon" title="Richard Condon">Richard Condon</a>, author of <i><a href="/wiki/The_Manchurian_Candidate" title="The Manchurian Candidate">The Manchurian Candidate</a></i> (1959).<sup id="cite_ref-morning_news_3-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-morning_news-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Paul_Christopher_series">Paul Christopher series</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Charles_McCarry&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Paul Christopher series"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Ten of McCarry's novels involve the life story of a fictional character named Paul Christopher, who grew up in pre-Nazi Germany, and later served in the <a href="/wiki/United_States_Marine" class="mw-redirect" title="United States Marine">Marines</a> and became an operative for a U.S. government entity known as "the Outfit", meant to represent the Central Intelligence Agency. </p><p>These books are, in order of publication: </p> <ol><li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Miernik_Dossier" title="The Miernik Dossier">The Miernik Dossier</a></i> (1973): Christopher investigates a possible Soviet spy in Geneva</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Tears_of_Autumn" title="The Tears of Autumn">The Tears of Autumn</a></i> (1974): Christopher investigates the <a href="/wiki/Kennedy_Assassination" class="mw-redirect" title="Kennedy Assassination">Kennedy Assassination</a></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Secret_Lovers_(novel)" title="The Secret Lovers (novel)">The Secret Lovers</a></i> (1977): Christopher discovers a secret plot within the CIA</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Better_Angels" title="The Better Angels">The Better Angels</a></i> (1979): Christopher's cousins steal a Presidential election</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Last_Supper_(novel)" title="The Last Supper (novel)">The Last Supper</a></i> (1983): introduction to Christopher's parents in pre-World War II Germany; Christopher is imprisoned in China</li> <li><i>The Bride of the Wilderness</i> (1988): historical novel concerning 17th-century Christopher ancestors</li> <li><i>Second Sight</i> (1991): released from a Chinese prison, Christopher meets a daughter he did not know he had</li> <li><i>Shelley's Heart</i> (1995): sequel to <i>The Better Angels</i>: Christopher's cousins cause a Presidential impeachment</li> <li><i>Old Boys</i> (2004): Christopher's old associates discover a plot involving terrorists and the fate of Christopher's mother</li> <li><i>Christopher's Ghosts</i> (2007): the story of Christopher's first love in pre-World War II Germany</li></ol> <p>Alternately, in chronological order of events depicted: </p> <ol><li><i>Bride of the Wilderness</i> (Christopher's ancestors)</li> <li><i>Last Supper</i> [in part] (Christopher's parents)</li> <li><i>Christopher's Ghosts</i></li> <li><i>The Miernik Dossier</i></li> <li><i>Secret Lovers</i></li> <li><i>The Tears of Autumn</i></li> <li><i>Last Supper</i> [in part]</li> <li><i>The Better Angels</i></li> <li><i>Second Sight</i> (Christopher is a peripheral character)</li> <li><i>Shelley's Heart</i></li> <li><i>Old Boys</i> (Christopher is a peripheral character)</li></ol> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Reception">Reception</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Charles_McCarry&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Reception"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p><i><a href="/wiki/The_Wall_Street_Journal" title="The Wall Street Journal">The Wall Street Journal</a></i> described McCarry in 2013 as "the dean of American spy writers".<sup id="cite_ref-HW_14-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-HW-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <i><a href="/wiki/The_New_Republic" title="The New Republic">The New Republic</a></i> magazine called him "poet laureate of the CIA";<sup id="cite_ref-15" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and Otto Penzler described him as "the greatest espionage writer that America has ever produced."<sup id="cite_ref-WaPo_Obit_2-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-WaPo_Obit-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <a href="/wiki/Jonathan_Yardley" title="Jonathan Yardley">Jonathan Yardley</a>, Pulitzer Prize-winning critic for the <i>Washington Post</i>, calls him a "'serious' novelist" whose work may include "the best novel ever written about life in high-stakes Washington, D.C."<sup id="cite_ref-16" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In 2004 <a href="/wiki/P._J._O%27Rourke" title="P. J. O'Rourke">P. J. O'Rourke</a> called him "the best modern writer on the subject of intrigue."<sup id="cite_ref-17" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Adaptations">Adaptations</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Charles_McCarry&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: Adaptations"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The film <i><a href="/wiki/Wrong_is_Right" class="mw-redirect" title="Wrong is Right">Wrong is Right</a></i> (1982), starring <a href="/wiki/Sean_Connery" title="Sean Connery">Sean Connery</a>, was loosely based on McCarry's novel, <i>The Better Angels</i> (1979).<sup id="cite_ref-18" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-19" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-19"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>19<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Other_books_and_publications">Other books and publications</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Charles_McCarry&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: Other books and publications"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Non-Paul_Christopher_novels">Non-Paul Christopher novels</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Charles_McCarry&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: Non-Paul Christopher novels"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><i>Lucky Bastard</i> (1999). A comic novel in which a likeable but amoral, devious, and oversexed politician (thought by many to evoke <a href="/wiki/Bill_Clinton" title="Bill Clinton">Bill Clinton</a>, when in fact McCarry himself said he was thinking about John F Kennedy.<sup id="cite_ref-20" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-20"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>20<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>) is controlled by a female eastern-bloc subversive.</li> <li><i>Ark</i> (2011). Earth's wealthiest man attempts to save humanity from a coming apocalypse.</li> <li><i>The Shanghai Factor</i> (2013).<sup id="cite_ref-21" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-21"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>21<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> A rookie spy in China is drawn into the lonely, compartmentalized world of counterintelligence, and misunderstands everything that he and those around him are doing.</li> <li><i>The Mulberry Bush</i> (2015). Explores the world of South America's elites and militant revolutionaries, and the role of lifelong personal passions and agendas in their work and that of intelligence operatives.</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Non-fiction">Non-fiction</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Charles_McCarry&action=edit&section=8" title="Edit section: Non-fiction"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><i>Citizen <a href="/wiki/Ralph_Nader" title="Ralph Nader">Nader</a></i> (1972)</li> <li><i>Double Eagle: <a href="/wiki/Ben_Abruzzo" title="Ben Abruzzo">Ben Abruzzo</a>, <a href="/wiki/Maxie_Anderson" title="Maxie Anderson">Maxie Anderson</a>, <a href="/wiki/Larry_Newman_(aviator)" title="Larry Newman (aviator)">Larry Newman</a></i> (1979)</li> <li><i>The Great Southwest</i> (1980)</li> <li><i>Isles of the Caribbean</i> (<a href="/wiki/National_Geographic_Society" title="National Geographic Society">National Geographic Society</a>, Washington, DC, 1980, co-author)</li> <li><i>For the Record: From Wall Street to Washington</i> (1988, by <a href="/wiki/Donald_Regan" title="Donald Regan">Donald Regan</a> with Charles McCarry)</li> <li><i>Paths of Resistance: The Art and Craft of the Political Novel</i> (1989, with <a href="/wiki/Isabel_Allende" title="Isabel Allende">Isabel Allende</a>, <a href="/wiki/Marge_Piercy" title="Marge Piercy">Marge Piercy</a>, <a href="/wiki/Robert_Stone_(novelist)" title="Robert Stone (novelist)">Robert Stone</a> and <a href="/wiki/Gore_Vidal" title="Gore Vidal">Gore Vidal</a>)</li> <li><i>Inner Circles: How America Changed the World: a Memoir</i> (1992, by <a href="/wiki/Alexander_Haig" title="Alexander Haig">Alexander Haig</a> with Charles McCarry)</li> <li><i>Caveat: Realism, Reagan, and Foreign Policy</i> (1984, by Alexander Haig with Charles McCarry). Stories include: In March 1981, shortly after taking office, Ronald Reagan was shot; Secretary of State Haig appeared in the White House press room and announced, "I am in charge here!"<sup id="cite_ref-22" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-22"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>22<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><i>From the Field: A Collection of Writings from National Geographic</i> (1997, editor)</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Collections_including_McCarry's_work"><span id="Collections_including_McCarry.27s_work"></span>Collections including McCarry's work</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Charles_McCarry&action=edit&section=9" title="Edit section: Collections including McCarry's work"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Harlan_Coben" title="Harlan Coben">Harlan Coben</a>, ed. <i>The Best American Mystery Stories: 2011</i> − includes "The End of the String."<sup id="cite_ref-23" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-23"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>23<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Alan_Furst" title="Alan Furst">Alan Furst</a>, editor <i>The Book of Spies −</i> includes excerpt from <i>The Tears of Autumn</i>.<sup id="cite_ref-24" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-24"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>24<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li></ul> <p><a href="/wiki/Otto_Penzler" title="Otto Penzler">Otto Penzler</a>, editor: </p> <ul><li><i>Agents of Treachery</i> − includes "The End of the Sting."</li> <li><i>The 50 Greatest Mysteries of All Time</i> − includes "The Hand of Carlos"</li> <li><i>The Big Book of Espionage</i> − includes "The Hand of Carlos"</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Short_stories_(fiction)"><span id="Short_stories_.28fiction.29"></span>Short stories (fiction)</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Charles_McCarry&action=edit&section=10" title="Edit section: Short stories (fiction)"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>"The Saint Who Said No", <i>Saturday Evening Post</i>, December 9, 1961</li> <li>"The Hand of Carlos", <i>Armchair Detective</i> (1992)</li> <li>"The End of the String"</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Magazine_articles_(non-fiction)"><span id="Magazine_articles_.28non-fiction.29"></span>Magazine articles (non-fiction)</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Charles_McCarry&action=edit&section=11" title="Edit section: Magazine articles (non-fiction)"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>"A ... Week on the Road With Ralph Nader", <i>Life</i> magazine, January 21, 1972</li> <li>"John Rennon’s Excrusive Gloupie: On the load to briss with the Yoko nobody Onos", <i>Esquire</i> magazine, December 1, 1970<sup id="cite_ref-25" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-25"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>25<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="References">References</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Charles_McCarry&action=edit&section=12" title="Edit section: References"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1239543626">.mw-parser-output .reflist{margin-bottom:0.5em;list-style-type:decimal}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .reflist{font-size:90%}}.mw-parser-output .reflist .references{font-size:100%;margin-bottom:0;list-style-type:inherit}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-2{column-width:30em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-3{column-width:25em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns{margin-top:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns ol{margin-top:0}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns li{page-break-inside:avoid;break-inside:avoid-column}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-alpha{list-style-type:upper-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-roman{list-style-type:upper-roman}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-alpha{list-style-type:lower-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-greek{list-style-type:lower-greek}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-roman{list-style-type:lower-roman}</style><div class="reflist"> <div class="mw-references-wrap mw-references-columns"><ol class="references"> <li id="cite_note-:0-1"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-:0_1-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-:0_1-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-:0_1-2"><sup><i><b>c</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-:0_1-3"><sup><i><b>d</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1238218222">.mw-parser-output cite.citation{font-style:inherit;word-wrap:break-word}.mw-parser-output .citation q{quotes:"\"""\"""'""'"}.mw-parser-output .citation:target{background-color:rgba(0,127,255,0.133)}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-free.id-lock-free a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/65/Lock-green.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-limited.id-lock-limited a,.mw-parser-output .id-lock-registration.id-lock-registration a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d6/Lock-gray-alt-2.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-subscription.id-lock-subscription a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/aa/Lock-red-alt-2.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/4c/Wikisource-logo.svg")right 0.1em center/12px no-repeat}body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-free a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-limited a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-registration a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-subscription a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background-size:contain;padding:0 1em 0 0}.mw-parser-output .cs1-code{color:inherit;background:inherit;border:none;padding:inherit}.mw-parser-output .cs1-hidden-error{display:none;color:var(--color-error,#d33)}.mw-parser-output .cs1-visible-error{color:var(--color-error,#d33)}.mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{display:none;color:#085;margin-left:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-left{padding-left:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-right{padding-right:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .citation .mw-selflink{font-weight:inherit}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .cs1-format{font-size:95%}html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}@media screen and (prefers-color-scheme:dark){html.skin-theme-clientpref-os .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}</style><cite id="CITEREFCarlson2019" class="citation web cs1">Carlson, Michael (2019-03-05). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.theguardian.com/books/2019/mar/05/charles-mccarry-obituary">"Charles McCarry obituary"</a>. <i><a href="/wiki/The_Guardian" title="The Guardian">The Guardian</a></i><span class="reference-accessdate">. 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Weekly">L.A. Weekly</a></i><span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap">2007-03-11</span></span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=L.A.+Weekly&rft.atitle=The+Great+American+Spy+Novel&rft.aulast=Bernhard&rft.aufirst=Brendan&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.laweekly.com%2Fthe-great-american-spy-novel%2F&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ACharles+McCarry" class="Z3988"></span></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation news cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.nationalreview.com/podcasts/the-bookmonger/charles-mccarry-ark/">"Charles McCarry on Ark (Audio interview with Charles McCarry) with John J. Miller"</a>. <i><a href="/wiki/National_Review" title="National Review">National Review</a></i>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=National+Review&rft.atitle=Charles+McCarry+on+Ark+%28Audio+interview+with+Charles+McCarry%29+with+John+J.+Miller&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.nationalreview.com%2Fpodcasts%2Fthe-bookmonger%2Fcharles-mccarry-ark%2F&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ACharles+McCarry" class="Z3988"></span></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFO'Rourke,_P._J." class="citation news cs1">O'Rourke, P. J. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20040911004313/http://www.weeklystandard.com/Content/Public/Articles/000/000/004/570mubbw.asp">"A review essay"</a>. <i><a href="/wiki/Weekly_Standard" class="mw-redirect" title="Weekly Standard">Weekly Standard</a></i>. Archived from <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.weeklystandard.com/Content/Public/Articles/000/000/004/570mubbw.asp">the original</a> on September 11, 2004.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=Weekly+Standard&rft.atitle=A+review+essay&rft.au=O%27Rourke%2C+P.+J.&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.weeklystandard.com%2FContent%2FPublic%2FArticles%2F000%2F000%2F004%2F570mubbw.asp&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ACharles+McCarry" class="Z3988"></span></li> <li>Snyder, Robert Lance. "Charles McCarry's Recursive Late Fiction." <i>Clues: A Journal of Detection</i> 36.2 (Fall 2018): 71–81.</li> <li>Snyder, Robert Lance. (Fall 2020). "Suspicion's Abysmal Logic: Charles McCarry's <i>The Miernik Dossier.</i>" <i>South Atlantic Review</i> 85(3), 171–84. <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/Gale_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="Gale (identifier)">Gale</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://go.gale.com/ps/anonymous?id=GALE%7CA635785943">A635785943</a></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="External_links">External links</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Charles_McCarry&action=edit&section=14" title="Edit section: External links"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0565010/">Charles McCarry</a> at <a href="/wiki/IMDb_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="IMDb (identifier)">IMDb</a></li> <li><a rel="nofollow" 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