The secret lovers
By: by Charles McCarry.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Dutton
Published: 1977
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 308
Subjects: Christopher, Paul (Fictitious character) -- Fiction.; Intelligence service -- United States -- Fiction.
Description: Set in 1960 at the peak of the cold war, the story turns on the smuggling of a vital manuscript out of Moscow. At dawn in Berlin, covert action officer Paul Christopher rendezvouses with the agent carrying the manuscript to the West. Minutes later, the courier is killed by a hit-and-run driver. And the questions begin. Who killed the courier, but, most of all, why?