The first biography of Charles de Gaulle, by Philippe Barrès, was published in 1941. Since then there have been hundreds of books on the man. Is there anything new to say? As it turns out, there is.

Joe Country is the sixth full-length novel in the series ... Over this glum troupe presides Herron’s magnetic antihero, the spymaster Jackson Lamb. The extent to which Lamb sucks up the limelight ...