James Fallows of the Atlantic Monthly has an interesting blog
post up that references "The Tears of Autumn":
http://jamesfallows.theatlantic.com/archives/2007/12/good_news_mystery_fiction_depa.php#more
Stephen
On Dec 6, 2007 12:40 PM, Richard Moore <
moorich@aol.com> wrote:
>
>
>
>
> --- In
rara-avis-l@yahoogroups.com, John Williams
<johnwilliams@...>
>
> wrote:
> >
> >
> > My favourite Kennedy conspiracy is that
contained in Charles
> McCarry's
> > wonderful espionage noir The Tears of Autumn.
Very simply - and
> this
> > isn't a spoiler in any meaningful sense of the
word - the
> Vietnamese did
> > it. There's a good, long piece about McCarry
and the book here -
> >
http://www.laweekly.com/news/features/the-great-american-spy-
> novel/792/
> >
> > John
>
> I agree with your high praise for THE TEARS OF
AUTUMN by one of my
> favorite writers Charles McCarry. And thanks for the
link to the
> excellent LA Weekly article. It quoted a line from
TEARS where the
> protagonist Paul Christopher and his boss in the CIA
are discussing
> some in the Kennedy White House who think they can
"…do anything they
> like, to anyone in the world, and there'll be no
consequences."
> Christopher tells his boss "But there always
are."
>
> "You know that," Patchen said. "For those who never
smell the
> corpse, there's no way of knowing."
>
> This is not a partisan remark as it is recognition
of a political
> phenomenon common to new White House occupants and
top staff.
> McCarry spent many years in Washington in and out of
government and
> knows it well. While I am sure there are others I
have yet to read,
> McCarry, Ross Thomas and Ward Just are three
novelists who write
> believably about the various power centers in
Washington. Pelecanos
> writes well about the Washington streets and
neighborhoods but that's
> another world.
>
> One factual error, or at least a misleading
statement, is in the
> article. It states that McCarry was "…a speechwriter
for President
> Eisenhower…" McCarry was a speechwriter for
Secretary of Labor James
> P. Mitchell from 1956-1957. So it would be accurate
to say he was a
> speechwriter in the Eisenhower Administration, but
wrong to imply he
> was in the West Wing or next door at EOB churning
out speeches for
> Ike.
>
> I heard McCarry speak once at function at the
Smithsonian and he
> discussed his recruitment to the CIA by Allen Dulles
at his farewell
> lunch with Secretary Mitchell.
>
> Richard Moore
>
>
>
>
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