Following The Tears of Autumn and The Secret Lovers, another of Charles McCarry’s masterly spy thrillers is being reissued.

The Last Supper sees CIA agent Paul Christopher in Paris, about to set out on a mysterious assignment in Vietnam. Almost immediately after he boards his plane, his lover, Molly, is killed in a deliberate hit-and-run. To find the explanation for her fate, McCarry takes the reader back to the dark days of post-World War I Germany, where Christopher’s father, Hubbard, met and fell in love with Lori, the daughter of a noble Prussian family that had been ruined by the war. 1939 saw Lori arrested and ‘disappeared’ by the Nazis, propelling Hubbard Christopher on a quest to locate his missing wife – and a career as a high-level operative that would be emulated by his son.

From this sprang a chain of events that would lead to Molly’s senseless death, as well as the explanation for many of the unsolved mysteries of Paul Christopher’s life, the Cold War, and the history of twentieth century espionage.