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Chargement... The Miernik Dossier (1973)par Charles McCarry
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Inscrivez-vous à LibraryThing pour découvrir si vous aimerez ce livre Actuellement, il n'y a pas de discussions au sujet de ce livre. Cold war spy novel that works on many levels, and is interesting on all of them. The way in which the story is told is unusual: a collection of reports, transcripts, and other materials presumably drawn from the files of an espionage agency. The characters are compellingly drawn, yet ambiguous -- who is working for who? And the morality of the whole enterprise becomes an issue. Great read. ( ) The peculiar epistolary medium of Charles McCarry's The Miernik Dossier was off-putting for me for the first ten pages or so, then the novel seemed to open up and became difficult to put down. The novel is mostly a search into the true identity of Tadeusz Miernik, a fascinating character. The protagonist, of sorts, is Paul Christopher, a CIA operative. We are certain of two other agents, Nigel Collins of M16, and Ilona a Soviet agent and concentration camp survivor. The most admirable character is Tadeusz's sister, Zofia who tells a debriefer , "Ordinary life, for you, is pornography. No, no, I'm not blaming you or any of the others who are like you from Russia to America. The South Pole as well, I suppose." The novel is a riveting search for truth but it the truth it reveals are mostly ambiguities An epistolary spy novel told in dispatches and field reports from 1972 right at the heart of the Cold War. This was sophisticated and witty and charming and sexy. I forget that the Cold War was often fought by people who had experienced real war. In this crazy narrative American spies work alongside African princes and concentration camp survivors in a plot concerning Russian sponsorship of a Communist uprising in the Sudan. It never felt like it should work as a novel but it came together more satisfyingly than thought it might. aucune critique | ajouter une critique
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HTML: The Miernik Dossier is the dazzling first novel, recently reissued, by master spy novelist Charles McCarry. In this riveting, imaginative tale, five international agents embark on a road trip in a Cadillac from Switzerland to the Sudan. Among them are Paul Christopher, an American operative; Kalash el Khatar, the seven-foot-tall Muslim prince; Ilona Bentley, the beautiful half-English, half-Hungarian girlfriend of the British national, Nigel Collins; and Tadeusz Miernik, the shy and bumbling Polish scientist who might be the leader of a terror force that could set the Cold War aflame. Related as a collection of dossier notes written by the five characters, the novel reveals a complicated web in which each spins his or her own deception: each is a spider, and each a spy. The Miernik Dossier is an absolute masterpiece. . Mystery. Fiction.Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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