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Christopher's Ghosts

par Charles McCarry

Séries: Paul Christopher (7)

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With cinematic scope and masterful pacing, Charles McCarry delivers a haunting parable of a man confronted with the ghosts of an entire generation's brutal history. The grand tale begins in 1939 Berlin, where young Paul Christopher and his family are struggling against the rise of Nazi totalitarianism. The Christophers are known to be sympathetic to the persecuted Jews, while sixteen-year-old Paul has fallen in love with the daughter of a Jewish doctor. Their enemy is a sadistic SS officer named Stutzer, who will stop at nothing to destroy the young couple. Twenty years later, top CIA agent Paul Christopher is the only living witness to Stutzer's crimes. As he edges toward a confrontation with this mortal enemy, Christopher is forced to operate in the one theater he had thought he had mastered: his own past.… (plus d'informations)
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  Dermot_Butler | Nov 8, 2023 |
"Christopher's Ghosts" by Charles McCarry is divided into two parts. The first, "1939," is a touching romance between teens, Paul Christopher and Alexa Johann Maria Kaltenbach, whom Paul calls, Rima - since, "she had been like Rima the Bird Girl in his favorite novel, W.H. Hudson's 'Green Mansions' -- free, innocent, unattainable, a child of nature." Rima is "attained," and the romance blooms, though amid the terrors, brutalities, and consummate evil of Nazism.
In the second part, "1959," Paul Christopher, now a CIA agent arrives in East Berlin in fulfillment of two missions: the first personal -- to exact revenge on SS Major Stutzer, Paul's and the Christopher family's nemesis in 1939; the second professional -- to "recruit a high-ranking Soviet intelligence officer ... a KGB colonel named Yuri Kikorov. The second mission was not successful; the first was. "Christopher's Ghosts" is the best of all the series, I think, and certainly the most poetic.
  RonWelton | Feb 2, 2021 |
Charles McCarry's 'Christopher's Ghosts' goes a long way, for a reader who's relatively new to this author, in explaining the deep background of the star of the series and why he is the way he is. It's really 2 books in one: the first half covers Paul Christopher's early life in pre-WWII Germany, his 'love affair' with a beautiful young lady, and the challenges for Jews in their daily existence in Berlin. The 2nd half takes place years later, when Christopher is on his way to 'stardom' as a US spy and discovers an evil character from his past that engages his thirst for retribution.

Christopher's Ghosts is not only a fine addition to McCarry's series, but is also an excellent reminder of the evil that existed in Europe just a few generations ago. It's fiction, but he's done his homework and we can all continue to be thankful that the good guys won the war. ( )
  gmmartz | May 29, 2017 |
some interesting characterisations; a lot of omnipotence around; truly scary descriptions of torture and psychological destruction; hero as murderer is problematic ( )
  philippa58 | Jan 20, 2009 |
Overall it was a good book and I’m glad to have read it.

I had never read anything by McCarry before, and until after I finished the book, I did not realize that Paul Christopher is a regular character of his. I did like the guy, so I should probably try one of his earlier stories to see if I like the spy story any better. I do, after all, like spy stories.

My complete review is on my Blog, Nate's Library, specifically at: http://nates-library.blogspot.com/2007/11/charles-mccarry-christophers-ghosts.ht... ( )
  nbradle2 | Oct 31, 2008 |
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With cinematic scope and masterful pacing, Charles McCarry delivers a haunting parable of a man confronted with the ghosts of an entire generation's brutal history. The grand tale begins in 1939 Berlin, where young Paul Christopher and his family are struggling against the rise of Nazi totalitarianism. The Christophers are known to be sympathetic to the persecuted Jews, while sixteen-year-old Paul has fallen in love with the daughter of a Jewish doctor. Their enemy is a sadistic SS officer named Stutzer, who will stop at nothing to destroy the young couple. Twenty years later, top CIA agent Paul Christopher is the only living witness to Stutzer's crimes. As he edges toward a confrontation with this mortal enemy, Christopher is forced to operate in the one theater he had thought he had mastered: his own past.

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