A spy novel. — Thomas Dunne Books, 2013. — 272 p. — ISBN: 9781250021458.
Former CIA agent Lemuel Gunn left the battlefield of Afghanistan for early retirement in the desert of New Mexico, where he works as a private investigator from the creature comforts, such as they are, of a mobile home.
Into his life comes Ornella Neppi, a thirty-something woman making a hash out of her...
A spy novel. — Bantam Books, 1991. — 302 p. — ISBN: 0-553-07632-9. With An Agent in Place , Robert Littell proves once again that he is a master storyteller in the ranks of John le Carré, Len Deighton, and Graham Greene. Deep in the vastness of the Pentagon and the bowels of the massive KGB center in Moscow are old Cold Warriors who refuse to fade away. Yet how can they wage their...
A spy novel. — Overlook Press, 2005. — 395 p. — ISBN: 978-1-59020-832-8. Robert Littell is the undisputed master of American spy fiction, hailed for his profound grasp of the world of international espionage. His previous novel, The Company , an international bestseller, was praised as "one of the best spy novels ever written" (Chicago Tribune). For his new novel, Legends ,...
A spy novel. — Hutchinson, 1978. — 219 p. — ISBN: 978-1-59020-902-8.
A riveting thriller about crime and punishment in Soviet-era Moscow.
Like the Arkady Renko novels of Martin Cruz Smith, Robert Littell’s masterful Mother Russia transports readers back in time and behind the Iron Curtain to experience the extremes of Soviet society. Robespierre Pravdin is a black...
A spy novel. — Houghton Mifflin, 1974. — 210 p. — ISBN: 978-1-59020-901-1. Robert Littell is often compared to John le Carré, Alan Furst, and Len Deighton. But in Sweet Reason , this master of the spy genre takes a dramatic departure to brilliantly satirize career militarists and other absurdities of war. Somewhere off the coast of Southeast Asia, the U.S.S. Eugene F. Ebersole-a...
A spy novel. — Faber & Faber, 1991. — 302 p. — ISBN: 0571163866. Master cryptographer Charlie Heller leads a quite career in the Company until the day a Soviet-linked terrorist bullet kills his fiancée in cold blood in the American consulate in Munich. Charlie loses his quite reserve and forces the CIA's hand. He penetrates the Iron Curtain and hunts her killers deep in...
A spy novel. — Penguin Books, 2003. — 894 p. — ISBN: 978-1-59020-834-2. 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...
A spy novel. — Harper & Row, 1979. — 202 p. — ISBN: 978-1-59020-907-3.
With the publication of his New York Times bestseller The Company , Robert Littell reestablished his position as one of the top writers of intelligent, ironic, and always entertaining espionage thrillers. After many years The Debriefing is finally available again as Overlook brings back Littell’s classics....
A spy novel. — Faber & Faber, 1991. — 256 p. — ISBN: 0571163858.
For years, scientist A.J. Lewinter has been an insignificant cog in America's complex defence machinery — until the day he enters the Soviet embassy offering to defect.
Suddenly Lewinter is swept up in a terrifying political chess match of deceit and treachery, orchestrated by two grand masters of the game:...
A spy novel. — Thomas Dunne Books, 2016. — 256 p. — ISBN: 9781250100566.
An intriguing novel of Soviet Russia and one of its most fascinating artists.
In March 1953, four women meet in Room 408 of Moscow’s deluxe Metropole Hotel. They have gathered, not altogether willingly, to reminisce about Vladimir Mayakovsky, the poet who in death had become a national idol of Soviet...
A spy novel. — Houghton Mifflin, 1975. — 193 p. — ISBN: 978-1-59020-913-4.
Seven of Bulgaria’s cultural elite—all disillusioned communists—and one American drifter find themselves staging an extremely dangerous protest that will set off a wave of repression and threatens to repay their heroism with death.
Connoisseurs of the literary spy thriller rank Robert Littell, the...
A spy novel. — Bantam Books, 1990. — 294 p. — ISBN: 978-1-59020-904-2.
By national best-selling author, Robert Littell, whose most recent novel The Company received rave reviews across the nation, The Once and Future Spy is finally back in print. This is Littell at the top of his form, constructing a tale of espionage and counterespionage revealing the dirty tricks and...
A spy novel. — Bantam Books, 1988. — 467 p. — ISBN: 0-553-05260-8. An epic saga of the Soviet Union's brutal first decades-from The New York Times bestselling master of espionage. Hailed as "the American le Carré", Robert Littell presents an ambitious novel about star-crossed idealist Alexander Til. When Til returns from America to Petrograd on the eve of the October Revolution in...
A spy novel. — Bantam Books, 1986. — 312 p. — ISBN: 0-553-05097-4. Enigmatic and extremely dangerous, CIA legends Francis and Caroll have been dubbed "The Sisters Death and Night" by their cohorts. But few know what these operatives do. They plot — and they have come up with the perfect crime. They've located the ideal pawn — known as the Potter, he is the exiled ex-head of the...
A spy novel. — Simon & Schuster, 2009. — 380 p. — ISBN: 9781416598640.
Based on a riveting historical episode, The Stalin Epigram is a fictional rendering of the life of Osip Mandelstam, perhaps the greatest Russian poet of the twentieth century -- and one of the few artists in Soviet Russia who daringly refused to pay creative homage to Joseph Stalin. The poet's defiance of...
A spy novel. — Random House, 1994. — 226 p. — ISBN: 978-1-59020-906-6.
Lemuel Falk, "a Russian theoretical chaoticist on the lam from terrestrial chaos," has been applying for permission to leave Russia every year for the past twenty-three years. Because he knows state secrets, he has not been allowed to cross the state's frontiers. Now, suddenly, his request for an exit visa...
A spy novel. — Overlook Press, 2006. — 300 p. — ISBN: 978-1-590-20830-4. An Israeli government minister is assassinated in the home of his mistress. Days later, Elihu, an aging and decorated Mossad officer, leads his final raid, killing a Hamas leader in his bed -- and barely escaping with his life. Out of this familiarly cyclical scenario emerges what is perhaps Robert Littell's...
A spy novel. — Overlook Press, 1997. — 220 p. — ISBN: 0-87951-764-6. Littell plunges the reader behind the headlines and into a mesmerizing post-cold war world where reactivated KGB agents, CIA operatives and Apaches combine forces to unravel a double-cross, retracing the operation to find the source of the deception—in espionage lingo, walking back the cat. A Soviet-era KGB agent...
A spy novel. — Thomas Dunne Books, 2012. — 268 p. — ISBN: 9781250005168.
An elegant, twisty spy story by a true master of the craft
Bestselling novelist Robert Littell employs all his considerable skills in telling the story of Kim Philby through the eyes of more than twenty true-life characters. As each layer is revealed, the question arises: Who really was this man?...
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