Editing Charles McCarry (section)

==Reception==
''[[The Wall Street Journal]]'' described McCarry in 2013 as "the dean of American spy writers".<ref name="HW">{{cite news |last=Trachtenberg |first=Jeffrey |date=May 9, 2013 |title=An Ex-CIA Agent's Novel Take on Spying in China |work=[[The Wall Street Journal]] |url=https://www.wsj.com/articles/BL-SEB-74675 |access-date=June 7, 2017}}</ref> ''[[The New Republic]]'' magazine called him "poet laureate of the CIA";<ref>August 4, 1979, pp. 42–43.</ref> and Otto Penzler described him as "the greatest espionage writer that America has ever produced."<ref name="WaPo_Obit"/> [[Jonathan Yardley]], Pulitzer Prize-winning critic for the ''Washington Post'', calls him a "'serious' novelist" whose work may include "the best novel ever written about life in high-stakes Washington, D.C."<ref>"The Powers that Be", ''Washington Post'', June 4, 1995.</ref> In 2004 [[P. J. O'Rourke]] called him "the best modern writer on the subject of intrigue."<ref>P.J. O'Rourke, [https://web.archive.org/web/20180919024844/https://www.weeklystandard.com/pj-orourke/no-country-for-old-men "No Country for Old Men"], ''[[The Weekly Standard]], ''September 13, 2004.</ref>