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"Robert Littell is the Smgriclin le Carré."
B iKid.e'worWnjas of the world's foremost intelli-i|m«xcitement,^trigue, and high-v5ltage action, 4^1 ^ne whai| of a story." -Clive Cussler
"In his gripping n^ no||pl^rt Littell brings a lost culture with^MlMir ^ written history vibra^Kack to life. Mingling real-life heroes and plains compelling fictitL^characters and mixing little-known facts wity|iiPary~ evenM;hd^^lwes ring truer than reality, this master novfdM|ks given us a page turner that lives on in the reai^'s memory," ¦¦ ?SStbStSwi. •^HAR^pS MCCAB^ ¦
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With a sharp eye for the pathos and absurdity of the spy game, Robert Littell crafted his first novel, the now legendary espionage thriller The Defection of A.J. Lewinter. Christopher Lehmann-Haupt in the New York Times called it "a perfect htde gem, one of the best Cold War thrillers I've read in years," and the praise kept coming with critics caUing Littell's books "as good as thrUler writing gets," (The Washington Post) and hailing, him as "the American le Carré." (The New York Times)
Events that bring the world to crisis constantly lurk around the corner, on a canvas populated with spies who are always with us. For his thirteenth novel, Robert LitteU creates a multigenerational, wickedly nostalgic saga of the CIA—"The Company" to insiders. The fictional and historical characters of Robert Littell's briUiant and often insinuating novel reveal much of the nearly fifty years of this complex and powerfial organization. At the heart is a mole hunt involving the CIA, MI6, KGB, and Mossad— a stunningly conceived trip down the rabbit hole to the labyrinthine AKce-in-Wonderland world of espionage, a "wood where things have no names."
Racing across a landscape spanning the legendary BerUn Base of the '50s—the firont line of the simmering Cold War—the Soviet invasion of Hungary, the Bay of Pigs, Afghanistan, and the Gorbachev putsch. The Company tells the thrilling story of agents imprisoned in double lives, fighting an enemy that is amoral, elusive, formidable.
LitteU also lays bare the internecine warfare wdthinThe Company itself, adding another dimension to the spy vs. spy game. An atmosphere of distrust pits the counterintelligence agents behind the desks in Washington, like the utterly obsessive real-life mole hunter James Jesus Angleton, against the covert action boys in the field, like The Company's Harvey Torriti—The Sorcerer—a brilliant and brash rules breaker, and his Apprentice, Jack McAulifiTe, recruited fresh out ofYale, who learns both tradecraft and the hard truths of life in the field.
As this dazzhng anatomy of the CIA unfolds, nothing less than the future is at stake. And the future is often only the day after tomorrow. At once a celebration of a long Cold War well fought and an elegy for the end of an era, The Company is history's wilderness of mirrors, its entertaining tale, its last word. It is also a reckoning for a profession with a future. Vissza