Robert Littell

Two Cold War-era CIA veterans plot the perfect crime in this spy thriller by the New York Times–bestselling author of The Company.
In what Christopher Lehmann-Haupt of The New York Times called "the plot of plots," Robert Littell has created the CIA "legends" Francis and Carroll, dubbed by their cohorts as "The Sisters Death and Night." But few know what these enigmatic and extremely dangerous operatives do.
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A retired Navy admiral with counterintelligence experience and a New York City operative with a passion for history become involved in the CIA's frantic search to find who leaked the plans for a lethal and highly clandestine operation.

For his fourteenth novel, Robert Littell creates an engrossing, multigenerational, wickedly nostalgic yet utterly candid saga, bringing to life through a host of characters-historical and imagined-the over 40 years of the CIA-"the Company" to insiders. At the heart of the novel is a stunningly conceived mole hunt involving such rivals and allies as the MI6, KGB, and Mossad. Racing across a canvas that spans the legendary Berlin Base in the 1950s-the...

An American ceramics engineer defects to the Soviet Union only to find his loyalty to the Russians questioned by both nations.

A Russian academic, specializing in the theory of chaos, arrives in the U.S. to take up a teaching post. In no time he finds himself involved in a series of chaotic murders which his training helps to solve.

"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 Russia. In life, however, he was a much more complicated figure. Each of these ladies loved Mayakovsky in the course of his life, and as they piece together their memories of him, a portrait of the artist emerges."--

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 marketeer who prowls Moscow's streets and alleys hustling wristwatches. Wishing only to survive in a city suffocated by paranoia and schizophrenia, Robespierre manages to make a tidy profit and stay under the state's radar-until,...

From youth to adulthood, Rob Littell spent 20 years alongside John F. Kennedy Jr. -through laughter and sorrow, joy and heartbreak. Now in this moving and poignant memoir of their touching friendship, Rob Littell shares his story with listeners… Rob Littell was a freshman at Brown when he met JFK Jr. Although Littell came from a privileged background, it was worlds apart from the glamorous life of the son of the late President and Jacqueline Kennedy...

A KGB assassin in America gets a shock when his intended victim informs him not Moscow, but the Mafia are running his spy ring. The story is convincing, the American is employed by an Indian casino in New Mexico which is paying the Mafia protection money, and the two join forces to destroy the Mafia ring.

"When the shadowy organization in Washington known as Intelligence Support Activity sends operative Ben Bassett first to Prague, then to Moscow, a series of plots and counterplots is set in motion that leads to the clandestine heart of the Soviet system itself." --