Christopher's Ghosts (Paul Christopher, Book 10) by Charles McCarry

By Charles McCarry

With ferocious suspense, masterful pacing, and a penetrating perception into the blood-soaked spectacle of twentieth century Europe, McCarry supplies a haunting parable of a guy faced with the ghosts of a complete generation's brutal historical past.

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