"True entertainment.has throughout the crystal ring of truthintelligent, absorbing."
New Yorker

"The most intelligent and enthralling piece of work I have read for a very long time."Eric Ambler

The Miernik Dossier is the dazzling first novel, newly reissued, by master spy novelist Charles
McCarry. In this riveting, imaginative tale, five international agents embark on a car trip in a Cadillac,
traveling from Switzerland to the Sudan. Among them are Paul Christopher, an American operative;
Kalash el Khatar, the seven-foot-tall Muslim prince; Ilona Bentley, the beautiful half-English, half-Hungarian
girlfriend of the British national, Nigel Collins; and Tadeusz Miernik, the shy and bumbling Polish scientist
who might be the leader of a terror force that could set the Cold War aflame.

Related as a collection of dossier notes written by the five characters, the novel reveals a complicated web
in which each spins his or own deception: each is a spider, and each is a spy.

Charles McCarry is the author of the acclaimed thriller, Old Boys. He established an international reputation as a novelist with the publication in 1975 of the worldwide best-seller, The Tears of Autumn. During the Cold War, he was an intelligence officer operating under deep cover in Europe, Africa, and Asia.