BillC is reading "The Last Supper" by Charles McCarry
(it is the last in that series)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_McCarry
McCarry is a former spy. This wikpedia article is interesting reading.
(excerpts)
McCarry began his writing career in the United States Army as a correspondent for Stars and Stripes, afterwards, in the 1950s, serving as a speechwriter in the early Administration of President Dwight D. Eisenhower; a typical McCarry item was the 1953 Labor Day Proclamation, which read, in part,
"Free American labor has won for itself the enjoyment of a standard of living unmatched in history. The contemporary world knows no comparison with it. There is only brutal contrast to it. To this, there is no more pitiful and dramatic testimony than the food which this free people has been able to send to feed hundreds of thousands suffering the peculiar torments of the proletarian paradise of Eastern Germany."
In the late 1950s, he accepted a post with the CIA for whom he traveled the globe as a deep cover operative—his son, Nathan McCarry, CEO of Pluribus International Corporation, in 2014 described his father's work for the CIA as "trying for the family." He left the CIA, in 1967, becoming a writer of spy novels. McCarry rarely speaks or writes directly about those years, saying simply, "For a decade at the height of the Cold War, I worked abroad under cover as an intelligence agent."
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Ten of McCarry's novels involve the life story of a fictional character named Paul Christopher, who—in McCarry's telling—grew up in pre-Nazi Germany, and later became a lone operative for a U.S. government entity that is clearly the Central Intelligence Agency.
These books, in order of publication, are:
The Miernik Dossier (1973), Christopher investigates a possible Soviet spy in Geneva
The Tears of Autumn (1974), Christopher investigates the Kennedy Assassination
The Secret Lovers (1977), Christopher discovers a secret plot within the CIA
The Better Angels (1979), Christopher's cousins steal a Presidential election
The Last Supper (1983), introduction to Christopher's parents in pre-World War II Germany;
Christopher is imprisoned in China
The Bride of the Wilderness (1988), historical novel concerning 17th-century Christopher ancestors
Second Sight (1991), released from a Chinese prison, Christopher meets a daughter he did not know he had
Shelley's Heart (1995), sequel to The Better Angels: Christopher's cousins cause a Presidential impeachment
Old Boys (2004), Christopher's old associates discover a plot involving terrorists and the fate of Christopher's mother
Christopher's Ghosts (2007), the story of Christopher's first love in pre-World War II Germany
The novels, in chronological order of events depicted:
Bride of the Wilderness (Christopher is a peripheral character)
Christopher's Ghosts
The Miernik Dossier
Secret Lovers
The Tears of Autumn
Second Sight (Christopher is a peripheral character)
Old Boys (Christopher is a peripheral character)
The Paul Christopher novels, together and separately, resemble a Christopher Nolan movie in that time sequences become jumbled; e.g. only as Paul Christopher becomes an old man do readers learn about his parents and childhood.