Christopher's Ghosts is the new novel from the unrivalled master of intelligent American spy fiction. In an epic whose cinematic scope brings to life the tension and fear of Europe in the late 1930s, Charles McCarry takes the reader back in time, to the youth of CIA agent Paul Christopher in pre-war Berlin, to lay the foundations of one of the most remarkable characters in espionage fiction.
Against the backdrop of a city being strangled by the growing influence of the Nazi machine, the young Christopher embarks on a first, doomed, love affair, and experiences first hand the ruthlessness of Hitler's S.S., even as his desperate family struggle to negotiate a way out of Germany.
Decades later, at the height of the Cold War, a remorseless S.S. officer emerges out of the ruins of post-war Germany. His determination to destroy the last living witness to his savage crimes sets him on collision course with Christopher and instigates a lethal game of cat-and-mouse.
