first edition Hardcover
(c.1983) · New York
by McCarry, Charles
New York: E. P. Dutton, Inc.. Near Fine in Very Good dj. (c.1983). First Edition. Hardcover. 0525241736 . [very light wear to book, slight browning to page edges; front of jacket shows minor creasing, rear panel has some surface scratching and a small scrunch at the bottom edge, jacket still very presentable]. One of this excellent author's most ambitious works, in which, "through the life of his central character, Paul Christopher, he traces the labyrinthine history of the secret American intelligence group known as the Outfit from its early buccaneering days in the war against the Nazis and the Japanese, through the shadowy years of the Cold War, and on to the bitterness and moral complexities of the present day." Jacket blurbs from William Stevenson, Tom Wicker, Eric Ambler and Richard Condon -- the latter calling McCarry "the American master" of the spy novel. . (Inventory #: 14266)