Robert Littell

Ancien agent de la CIA reconverti en détective privé, Lemuel Gunn se réaccoutume difficilement à la vie civile. Installé dans un mobile home au Nouveau-Mexique, il nage en plein marasme financier et

This first novel by Robert Littell, bestselling author of The Company, immediately elevated him to the ranks of John le Carre, Len Deighton, and Graham Greene. "Eric Ambler invented the modern spy novel. Robert Littell perfected it," wrote Stephen Coonts.A.J. LeWinter is an American scientist, for years an insignificant cog in America''s complex defense machinery. While at an academic conference in Tokyo, LeWinter contacts the KGB station chief and says he wants to defect. He tantalizes the Russians with U.S. military secrets he claims to possess, but is his defection genuine? Neither the Russians nor the Americans are sure, and LeWinter is swept up in a terrifying political chess match of deceit and treachery. Deft and dazzlingly plotted, this is the book that introduced Robert Littell--the opening shot of a brilliant career.

One midnight in January in the early 1960s, the Russian freighter Domatova quietly slipped out of Beirut harbour. The ship had sailed with a single passenger on board: an Englishman named Harold Adrian Russell Philby, nicknamed Kim. He had fled the Lebanese capital with little more than the clothes on his back. The Englishman had used editions of James Hilton's "Lost Horizon" for enciphering purposes (page, line and letter number) when he communicated with his Soviet controllers. As the lights of Beirut vanished, he tried to imagine the life that awaited him in the Soviet Union. Would Moscow Centre welcome him as a senior Soviet intelligence officer? Would the Great Game the Englishman was so keen to play have a third act? For a spy, like a climber on a cliff, was there really no way out except up? With the same mastery and attention to detail he brought to "The Stalin Epigram", Robert Littell delivers a gripping novel about the most enigmatic spy of the last century.

Robert Littell ha hecho con la CIA lo mismo que Mario Puzo con la Mafia. Se trata de una saga fascinante, astutamente nostálgica, entretenidísima y llena de inocencia, que a lo largo de varias generaciones representa la vida de esta poderosa y secreta organizacion a traves de una multitud de personajes. The Company es una novela sorprendente que describe la lucha a vida o muerte de toda una generacion de agentes de la CIA durante la larga Guerra Fria. Robert Littell, inteligente e ironico, cuenta las cosas como sucedieron: los agentes de la CIA no solo eran los buenos que luchaban contra los enemigos extranjeros, sino que a veces tambien eran los malos. Los fines justifican los medios: los asesinatos orquestados, las guerras clandestinas, los secuestros y el derrocamiento de gobiernos legitimos. Todo vale para ganar al enemigo. Sin embargo, detras de cada maniobra y contramaniobra permanece una pregunta que se extiende desde el principio al final del libro ¿Quien es el topo dentro de la CIA?Un thriller brillante, de complejo argumento.Yorkshire Post El Le Carre americano. New York Times.

Martin Odum, antiguo agente de la CIA, trabaja ahora detective privado. Acepta el encargo de buscar al marido de una joven ultra ortodoxa judía, quien necesita obtener el divorcio para poder continuar su vida. A partir de ahí comienza un extraordinario periplo por medio mundo, tras las huellas del extraño marido, pero también en busca de su verdadera identidad, perdida entre las múltiples “leyendas” que tuvo que adoptar cuando trabajaba para la “agencia”. Para complicar aún más las cosas, pronto descubre que sus antiguos jefes quieren por algún motivo deshacerse de él, que el marido que busca es un jefe de la mafia rusa, y que un grupo de chechenos anda también tras él. En definitiva una novela de espías de la era post telón de acero, en la que algunos de los jugadores han cambiado, pero en la que otros, siguen muy presentes.

A classic among espionage aficionados, The Sisters features what the New York Times called "the plot of plots." Centering on Francis and Carroll, two enigmatic and extremely dangerous CIA legends dubbed "the Sisters Death and Night," The Sisters masterfully unveils an abyss of artful deception. By luring the Potter, a former head of the KGB sleeper school, into betraying his last and best assassin living secretly in the United States, Francis and Carroll set off a desperate race against time as the Potter tries to stop his protégé from committing the Sisters' exquisitely planned, world-shattering crime.

Martin Odum ne sait plus trop qui il est, ni même si cette identité est la sienne ou une de ces " légendes " inventées par la CIA du temps où il était agent secret. N'est-il pas plutôt Dante Pippen, ancien " conseiller " dans un camp du Hezbollah, ou Lincoln Dittmann, auteur d'un ouvrage. sur la guerre de Sécession ? Le fait que Stella charge Martin, aujourd'hui détective privé, de retrouver son beau-frère disparu en Israël n'arrange pas les choses. Car si Martin se heurte à de nouvelles énigmes qui le conduisent au bout du monde, il doit en plus affronter de tristes sires pour qui il n'y a aucun doute : qu'il s'appelle Martin, Dante ou Lincoln, il n'est rien de plus qu'un trouble-fête.

"The New York Times" bestselling author Robert Littell presents a suspenseful and brilliantly topical new thriller that looks at the cycle of political violence in the Middle East. In the near future, an unprecedented Arab-Israeli settlement is brokered by a visionary female president of the United States. But this historic moment is shattered when a well-known fundamentalist rabbi is taken hostage by a legendary Palestinian terrorist. As the Israelis close in, the hostage and the hostage taker develop bizarre bonds and form a terrifying alliance. In the tradition of John le CarrA(c) and Graham Greene, Littell dissects the culture of violence by searchingthe corrupted consciences of the people ensnared within it.