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      The Better Angels

      by Charles McCarry
      Published
      Jul 1979
      Main Genre
      Espionage / Spies / CIA Espionage
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      320
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      Series
      A Paul Christopher Novel Book 4

      About This Book

      In this political thriller by the author of The Secret Lovers, Paul Christopher's cousins tinker with an election while a reporter chases a lead.

      Originally published in 1979, The Better Angels is set close to the end of the twentieth century in a drastically changed America. The CIA has been dissolved into the Foreign Intelligence Service. It is an election year.  In Washington, D.C., an Englishman crashes a cocktail party at the home of TV anchorman Patrick Graham with a secret that could shake up an already deeply polarized nation. Soon, Graham is traveling the globe in search of the explosive truth . . .

      From the writer the New York Times Book Review called "the genuine article," The Better Angels is a thrilling and relevant masterwork.
      Praise for The Better Angels

      "A thinking man's thriller with a frightening finale." —Newsweek

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      Book 4
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      General Fiction

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      Espionage / Spies / CIA

      Characters & Occupations

      Terrorists

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