The Secret Lovers

The Secret Lovers, published by E.P. Dutton in 1977, was the third of seven novels by the American novelist Charles McCarry featuring an American intelligence agent named Paul Christopher. Although it was published after The Tears of Autumn, it takes place in 1960, a year later than the events in The Miernik Dossier and three years before the beginning of Autumn.

Recurring characters

In most of McCarry's novels, both those about Christopher and those about his cousins the Hubbards, there are characters who turn up in more than one of the books. In The Secret Lovers we have Paul Christopher, who had been in two earlier books, and the first appearance of his wife, Cathy, as well David Patchen, a Harvard roommate, fellow soldier in World War II, and colleague in their intelligence agency.