Robert Littell
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The Company: A Novel of the CIA
Robert Littell
With a sharp eye for the pathos and absurdity of the Cold War, Robert Littell crafted his first novel, the now legendary spy thriller The Defection of A.J. Lewinter. Christopher Lehmann-Haupt of The New York Times called it “a perfect little gem, the best Cold War thriller I’ve read in years,” and the praise kept coming with critics hailing Littell as “the American Le Carré” (New York Times) and raving that his books were “as good as thriller writing gets” (The Washington Post).
For his fourteenth novel, Robert Littell creates an…
Legends: A Novel of Dissimulation
Robert Littell
Martin Odum is a CIA field agent turned private detective, struggling his way through a labyrinth of past identities—”legends” in CIA parlance. Is he really Martin Odum? Or is he Dante Pippen, an IRA explosives maven? Or Lincoln Dittmann, Civil War expert? These men like different foods, speak different languages, have different skills. Is he suffering from multiple personality disorder, brainwashing, or simply exhaustion? Can Odum trust the CIA psychiatrist? Or Stella Kastner, a young Russian woman who engages him to find her brother-in-law so he can give her…
The Defection of A. J. Lewinter: A Novel of Duplicity
Robert Littell
This is Littell at the top of his form, constructing a tale of espionage and counterespionage that reveals the dirty tricks and dangerous secrets concerning the subjects he knows intimately—The CIA and American history, past and present.
At the center of Littell’s plot is an elite plan, so secret and so dangerous that its existence is known only to a tiny group of specialists within the CIA headquarters. There is virtually no paper trail—but, somehow, the plan has sprung a leak. The plotters most urgently trace it—or face deadly consequences. Meanwhile, at…
