A month later, Mr. McCarry submitted his manuscript again — without so much as changing a comma. “Evil was permanent and it was everywhere,” Mr. McCarry wrote in “The Better Angels,” describing the milieu that he and Christopher occupied. In 1958, Mr. McCarry joined the CIA after Mitchell suggested him to CIA director Allen Dulles. “Their friendships were deeper than marriage,” Mr. McCarry wrote in “The Tears of Autumn” of the bond among spies. In addition to his novels, Mr. McCarry published several nonfiction books on travel and one of the first transatlantic balloon flights.

Source: Washington Post March 01, 2019 04:07 UTC