The Secret Lovers is American author Charles McCarry

Charles McCarry

Charles McCarry is an American writer primarily of spy fiction.-Life:McCarry served in the United States Army, where he was a correspondent for Stars and Stripes, has been a small-town newspaperman, and was a speechwriter in the Eisenhower administration. From 1958 to 1967 he worked for the CIA,...

's third novel, and the third novel in the Paul Christopher series.

Plot

Shortly after delivering an important manuscript to American agent Paul Christopher, a European agent is killed mysteriously by a hit-and-run driver. The novel seesaws back and forth between Christopher's investigation of the agent's death and Christopher's relationship with his unfaithful wife, Cathy.

The story takes place in 1960, after The Miernik Dossier but before The Tears of Autumn.