Robert Littell

• 1973
• / Suspense
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A new edition of the spy classic by Robert Littell, New York Times bestselling master of the espionage thriller.The black comedy follows a pawn in the American military complex whose decision to change sides might determine the outcome of the Cold Wa...

• May-1979
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Stone is the head of an elite arm of the Joint Chiefs of Staff -- and a master of the psychologically sophisticated art of debriefing. When Oleg Kulakov defects from Russia, handcuffed to a sealed diplomatic pouch, it’s Stone’s job to find out if...

• Apr-1981
• / Suspense
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A spy thriller classic, soon to be a major motion picture starring Rami Malek, Rachel Brosnahan, Caitriona Balfe, and Laurence Fishburne.“A taut, chilling plot and a protagonist as memorable as one of Len Deighton’s, or le Carré’s Smiley.” -...

• Jan-1986
• / General Fiction
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This harrowing Cold War thriller from the New York Times�"bestselling author of The Company is “a brave, ambitious, and most worthy book” (The Washington Post).   Connoisseurs of the literary spy thriller rank Robert Littell up there with J...

• Jan-1986
• / Suspense
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An astonishing thriller from the author of The Company

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 CI...

• Feb-1986
• / General Fiction
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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...

• Mar-1986
• / General Fiction
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Somewhere off the coast of Southeast Asia, the U.S.S. Eugene F. Ebersole -- a rusted World War II relic whose best days are far past -- patrols the waters on a mission to protect American values in this suddenly-not-so-Cold War. The decrepit destroye...

• Apr-1988
• / Literary
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The New York Times�"bestselling author’s decades-spanning novel of two Americans in the Soviet Union: “Gripping . . . suspense, danger, [and] adventure” (Chicago Tribune).   This thrilling historical saga follows two young ...

• Apr-1990
• / Suspense
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A spy thriller classic, reissued by Soho Crime.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 ...

• Sep-1991
• / Suspense
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Dispatched to Moscow, agent Ben Bassett falls under the spell of a Russian poet and becomes caught up in a plot by Soviet hardliners who, despite the end of the Cold War, are determined to turn back the clock. Reprint....

• Mar-1994
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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...

• May-1997
• / Suspense
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Now back in print?a mesmerizing espionage thriller from the bestselling author of The Company

Robert Littell has made a name for himself as one of the foremost authors of literary spy thrillers. Here, Littell abandons his usual East European ...

• Apr-2002
• / Espionage
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This realistic New York Times�"bestselling epic spy novel captures the thrilling story of CIA agents in the latter half of the Twentieth Century.The New York Times bestselling spy novel The Company lays bare the history and inner...

• May-2005
• / Suspense
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A Brooklyn P.I. and ex-CIA agent looks for a missing man while suffering from an identity crisis in this thriller by the bestselling author of The Company.Martin Odum is a onetime CIA field agent turned private detective in Brooklyn, struggling his w...

• Oct-2006
• / Suspense
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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 brokere...

• May-2009
• / Literary
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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 ...

• Nov-2012
• / Espionage
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When Kim Philby fled to Moscow in 1963, he became the most notorious double agent in the history of espionage. Recruited into His Majesty’s Secret Intelligence Service at the beginning of World War II, he rose rapidly in the ranks to become the chi...

• Nov-2013
• / Mystery
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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...

• Nov-2016
• / Thriller
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In March 1953, four women meet in Room 408 of Moscow’s deluxe Hotel Metropol. They have gathered to reminisce about Vladimir Mayakovsky, the poet who in death had become a national idol of Soviet Russia. In life, however, he was a much more complic...

• Nov-2020
• / Thriller
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A tight, captivating story of a naive child’s encounters with a Soviet dictator, the 20th novel by Robert Littell   Leon Rozental -- ten and a half, intellectually precocious, and possessing a disarming candor -- is suddenly alone after the de...

• Feb-2024
• / Thriller
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A brand-new novel from New York Times bestselling author Robert Littell, A Plague on Both Your Houses is a thrilling tale of love and war.On Christmas Day, 1991, Mikhail Gorbachev delivered a ten-minute televised speech announcing his resignation as ...

• Feb-2025
• / Thriller
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A wry, thought-provoking fictional portrayal of ten pivotal weeks in the life of Leon Trotsky, inspired by the Russian revolutionary's exile in New York City in 1917, by the New York Times bestselling author of The CompanyJanuary 12, 1917: An ocea...