/lit/ - Literature

>>4868257
Bumping with repurpose. Not OP.

Although pitched and marketed as a "JFK novel" dealing with the assassintion, as it does, it is, it turns out, a Vietnam novel, and among the finer of the type, masquerading as a spy genre romp. It is most certainly quite a bit more than that

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A61581-2005Apr17.html

http://dailycaller.com/2013/07/08/charles-mccarrys-unbearable-masterpiece/

The opener:

Paul Christopher had been loved by two women who could not understand why he had stopped writing poetry. Cathy, his wife, imagined that some earlier girl had poisoned his gift. She became hysterical in bed, believing that she could draw the secret out of his body and in to her own, as venom is sucked from a snakebite. Christopher did not try and tell her the truth; she had no right to know it and could not have understood it. Cathy wanted nothing except a poem about herself. She wanted to watch their lovemaking in a sonnet. Christopher could not write it. She punished him with lovers and went back to America.

>>4805037
Fleming counts. Espionage is a crime in every country in the world, and often involves mystery. The genre mags agree, intrigue in general goes in the crime catagory. Also, pic related, OP. Fleming is the British McCarry.

>>4776734
So help me /lit/, I'm going to keep recommending this book in every applicable context until one other anon on this planet reads it.

>The Kennedy assassination.
It does not and never has purported to be anything other than fiction. You have my internets-back guarantee you have never heard anything like it. It is also the page debut of the greatest intrigue character in English, Paul Christopher, of whom James Bond often sought advice about women and alcohol.