"The Miernik Dossier" introduces the reader to the CIA agent, sometime poet, and polyglot Paul Christopher and the world during the middle years of the Cold War. The novel begins in Geneva, Switzerland in the late spring, where a Polish civil servant (Tadeusz Miernik) employed on contract with the World Research Organization (WRO) faces having to return to Poland pending the imminent /5(14). Cancel. The Miernik Dossier is the dazzling first novel, newly reissued, by master spy novelist Charles McCarry. In this riveting, imaginative tale, five international agents embark on a car trip in a Cadillac, traveling 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 . The Miernik Dossier, by Charles McCarry, purports to be a collection of documents describing a "typical operation" for the CIA. The subject of this operation is Tadeusz Miernik, a Polish national who has been called back to his home country from Geneva (where he works for the WRO) and fears he will be imprisoned by the secret police if he returns/5().
Having been hooked on Charles McCarry's writing for a couple years now, I have read about half of his works and have purchased the rest. The story is set in the late s during the Cold War. The Miernik Dossier is the first in the Paul Christopher series. I was concerned about the format when I started reading. In a genre that often feels over-familiar in the execution, Charles McCarry's The Miernik Dossier () stands out as a first-rate spy thriller that's also distinctively different. It's classic spy fiction that also succeeds as a unique formal exercise and as a moving character study. CHARLES MCCARRY. THEMIERNIK DOSSIER DUCKWORTH OVERLOOK London and New York. This edition first published in UK in by Duckworth Overlook Cowcross Street London EC1M 6BF Tel: Fax: info@www.doorway.ru www.doorway.ru
Reviewed in the United States on Febru. "The Miernik Dossier" was one of Charles McCarry's early books that established his reputation as a master of the dark world of espionage. “Charles McCarry is the best modern writer on the subject of intrigue,” wrote P.J. O'Rourke, and Time magazine has declared that “there is no better American spy novelist.” Related as a collection of dossier notes written by the five characters, The Miernik Dossier reveals a complicated web in which each spins his or her own deception: each is a spider, and each is a spy. The Miernik Dossier, published by the Saturday Review Press in , was the first of seven novels by the American novelist Charles McCarry featuring an American intelligence agent named Paul Christopher. Set in in Europe and Africa during the days of the Cold War, it is narrated in the form of reports, overheard conversations, and various documents from a multitude of sources of different nationalities, supposedly giving the reader an authentic picture of what an actual intelligence.
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