Robert Littell, Author . Overlook $27.95 (800p) ISBN 978-1-58567-197-7
This impressive doorstopper of a book is like a family historical saga, except that the family is the American intelligence community. It has all the appropriate characters and tracks them over 40 years: a rogue uncle, the Sorcerer, a heavy-drinking
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Robert Littell, Author . Overlook $24.95 (304p) ISBN 978-1-58567-347-6
The reissue of this 1973 Cold War gem comes on the heels of Littell's recent hardcover thriller The Company. Set in the early 1970s, the spy thriller–cum–black comedy begins when A.J. Lewinter, an eccentric American engineer...
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Robert Littell, Author . Overlook $24.95 (312p) ISBN 978-1-58567-418-3
On the heels of Littell's 2002 bestseller The Company
comes this reissue of a gripping spy thriller originally published in 1986. It is the height of the Cold War, not long after the Cuban missile crisis. Francis and Carroll, dubbed "the...
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Robert Littell, Author . Overlook $25.95 (386p) ISBN 978-1-58567-696-5
As in The Company
(2002), a long and serious chronicle of the CIA, Littell provides plenty of inside intelligence info in his superb new thriller, but he adds a decidedly comic spin. A female CIA executive looks frighteningly like Fred Astaire,...
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Robert Littell, Author . Overlook $24.95 (300p) ISBN 978-1-58567-855-6
Veteran espionage writer Littell, whose 1973 debut, The Defection of A.J. Lewinter
, prompted critics to compare him to such British masters as Eric Ambler and John le Carré, stumbles a bit with his take on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict,...
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Robert Littell, Author Overlook Press $23.95 (224p) ISBN 978-0-87951-764-9
Two veteran publishing folk--espionage novelist Littell (The Visiting Professor, etc.) and former Penguin CEO Peter Mayer, now Overlook's publisher--make a smashing debut at Overlook by way of Littell's superb new spyfest. Littell weaves a wickedly...
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Robert Littell, Author Overlook Press $24.95 (294p) ISBN 978-1-58567-388-9
Two more of Robert Littell's vintage spy novels are back in print. Set soon after the Cuban missile crisis, Littell's 1986 novel The Sisters has CIA operatives Francis and Carroll (affectionately known to their colleagues as ""the sisters of ...
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Robert Littell, Author Bantam Books $16.95 (312p) ISBN 978-0-553-05097-4
""The Sisters Death and Night'' is the nickname for CIA partners Francis and Carroll, an ``odd-couple'' team whose thoughts and strategic sensibilities complement each other's. Dwindling in significance in their employer's eyes, the Sisters plan a...
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Robert Littell, Author Bantam Books $18.95 (467p) ISBN 978-0-553-05260-2
A clever mix of history and fiction, carefully researched and vigorously written, this hefty novel focuses on a Jewish idealist, Alexander Til, who returns to his native Russia from the U.S. to participate in the Bolshevik Revolution, only to...
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Robert Littell, Author Bantam Books $18.95 (294p) ISBN 978-0-553-05751-5
This complex, layered tale of espionage pits members of the CIA against one another in an effort to stop an information leak concerning the construction and deployment of atomic devices. In Washington, Rear Admiral J. Pepper Toothacher is recalled...
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Robert Littell, Author Random House (NY) $21 (226p) ISBN 978-0-679-43048-3
Forsaking his customary thriller territory, Littell ( The Revolutionist ) here finds fertile new ground in the farther reaches of mathematics, which prove a wellspring of rich and consistently surprising comedy. When Lemuel Falk, a Russian ``theoreti
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Robert Littell, Author, Grover Gardner, Read by , read by Grover Gardner. Audio Partners $39.95 (0p) ISBN 978-1-57270-485-5
Littell's witty and suspenseful tale reads like a conglomeration of John le Carré's cynical spy vs. spy elements and Ross Thomas's whimsical and darkly humorous insider's view of international politics. It takes an agile...
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Robert Littell, Author . Simon & Schuster $26 (366p) ISBN 978-1-4165-9864-0
Veteran espionage novelist Littell (Vicious Circle
; The Company
; etc.) trades cold war spies for interwar Russian poets in his wonderful new novel. In 1934, real-life poet Osip Mandelstam struggles to get published in the totalitarian state. A...
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Robert Littell. St. Martin’s/Dunne, $24.99 (272p) ISBN 978-1-250-02145-8
At the start of this throwback to Raymond Chandler from bestseller Littell (Young Philby), bail bondswoman Onella Neppi calls on Lemuel Gunn, a former CIA agent turned wise-cracking PI who lives in a trailer on the edge of the New Mexico desert, for
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Robert Littell. St. Martin’s/Dunne, $25.99 (272p) ISBN 978-1-250-10056-6
As in the Sufi tale of the four blind men describing an elephant, the four women in this complex but rewarding novel from bestseller Littell (A Nasty Piece of Work) each possesses a different truth about their late lover, the poet Vladimir...
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Robert Littell. St. Martin’s/Dunne, $24.99 (288p) ISBN 978-1-250-00516-8
Littell (The Company) offers an episodic, multifaceted look at the making of one of the world’s most notorious double agents, Harold Adrian Russell Philby, better known as “Kim” (after the hero of Kipling’s famous novel). After a prologue set in...
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