Espionage and counterespionage go together like horse and carriage. Download Download Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Rotate quotes carriage counterespionage espionage
I write in a very peculiar way. I think about a book for 25 or 30 years in a kind of inchoate way, and at one point or another, I realize the book is ready to be written. I usually have a character, a first line, and general idea of what the book is going to be about. Charles McCarry bookcharactergeneral share on social
Other writers tell me about these bushel baskets delivered at the front door. If I've gotten 50 letters over the last 18 years, I'd be surprised. Charles McCarry basketbusheldeliver Change image and share on social
Richard M. Helms, the first director of Central Intelligence to rise from the ranks, was fond of saying that the CIA had been founded to make sure that there would never be another Pearl Harbor. Underlying this mission impossible was the wishful supposition that an America that knew everything could prevent anything. Charles McCarry americacentralcia share on social
Mysteries include so many things: the noir novel, espionage novel, private eye novels, thrillers, police procedurals. But the pure detective story is where there's a detective and a criminal who's committed a murder and leaves clues for the detective and the careful reader to find. Otto Penzler carefulcluecommit share on social
In many walks of life, a conscience is a more expensive encumbrance than a wife or a carriage. Thomas de Quincey carriageconscienceencumbrance Change image and share on social