Maxim Jakubowski's November 2015 Book of the Month.
Veteran thriller writer McCarry returns with a poignant spy tale of mixed loyalties, betrayal and the collapse of political idealism in which the conflict between the power of love and revenge anchors a complex plot in reality and fate. Deeply scarred by the CIA's earlier betrayal of his father, a devious but bright American spy determines to get his own back and when he falls hard for the beautiful daughter of a famous Argentinian revolutionary it soon becomes unclear who is manipulating who and where feelings become calculations.
The complex tale covers much of the geopolitical struggles in the Middle East and South America of the past decades and quickly transforms into a breathless love story allied with a devious spider's web of a thriller. Adding such a fragile human element to a Le Carre-like deviousness makes this a terribly bittersweet read in which a master storyteller chronicles the secret world and anchors it in a melancholy reality. Like a spear to the heart. ~ Maxim Jakubowski
I became a spy because my father before me was a spy. Although I am, for the time being, hiding something from you. In a rose garden in Buenos Aires, a young American spy meets the beautiful daughter of a famous Argentinian revolutionary.
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I became a spy because my father before me was a spy. Although I am, for the time being, hiding something from you.
The Mulberry Bush features in the following genres: Thriller and Suspense, Espionage and spy thriller, Crime and Mystery, eBooks of the Month, Fiction, Recommendations
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The Mulberry Bush was written by Charles Mccarry and published by Head of Zeus an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing (UK)
The Mulberry Bush has 344 pages
