Charles McCarry
Charles McCarry
Charles McCarryis an American writer, primarily of spy fiction...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionWriter
CountryUnited States of America
cia good man might pleasure remembers restoring speak terms wonder work
As an old man who remembers the intellectual exhilaration and the pleasure of having done good work that characterized the CIA when it was young, I wonder if it might not be better to speak and think in terms of restoring its culture.
espionage
Espionage and counterespionage go together like horse and carriage.
civil intelligence people series work
I've consciously tried not to romanticize anything, especially not intelligence work. I've always said that I've been writing a series of episodic, naturalistic novels. The people just happen to be spies, politicians, civil servants.
certainly written
I've certainly written a lot of things that have more or less come true. But I don't have a gift for prophecy.
den dinner european meat paris piece raw
There's nothing new about European anti-Americanism. To go to a dinner party of intellectuals in Paris in 1960 was like walking into a tiger's den with a piece of raw meat in your hands.
baffled critics horrified illegal intelligence perform
I've always been baffled by critics of the CIA, who are horrified that it does illegal things. That is the purpose of an intelligence service: to perform illegal acts.
almost cannot fathom grasp objective people religious war zeal
I cannot grasp the difference between killing people with drones or rifles and knives. The objective in war is to kill the enemy before he kills you. I can't fathom the almost religious zeal with which the use of drones is being opposed.