The wonderful Charles McCarry from his “To The Reader” note at the end of Shelley’s Heart on the novel (one of my loves) and politics (one of my hates):

In fiction as in life, people do not always reveal the whole truth about themselves on first encounter, and the novel, like the Congress of the United States, makes its own rules, by which it abides at its own convenience.

Critic and literary historian DG Myers writes that “McCarry may be the best political novelist that the United States has ever produced.” I agree. His pen is as lethal as any sword. Thanks to Overlook Press for not overlooking McCarry.