Robert M Littell

Walking Back the Cat

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 milieu to focus on New Mexico, where a Sovietera KGB agent...

The Defection of A. J. Lewinter: A Novel of Duplicity

This is Littell at the top of his form, constructing a tale of espionage and counterespionage that reveals the dirty tricks and dangerous secrets concerning the subjects he knows intimately - The CIA and American history, past and present. At the center of Littell's plot is an elite plan, so secret...

The Revolutionist

An epic saga of the Soviet Union's brutal first decades-from The New York Times bestselling master of espionage. Hailed as "the American le Carré," Robert Littell presents an ambitious novel about star-crossed idealist Alexander Til. When Til returns from America to Petrograd on the eve of the Oct...

Mother Russia

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 Soviet society. Robespierre Pravdin is a black m...

Young Philby: A Novel

A Kirkus Best Fiction Book of 2012 A Kansas City StarTop Book the Year 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 Serviceat the beginning of World War II, he rose rapidly in the ranks...

A Nasty Piece of Work: A Novel

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 Neppi, a thirty-something woman making a hash out of ...

The Company: A Novel of the CIA

This critically acclaimed blockbuster from internationally renowned novelist Robert Littell seamlessly weaves together history and fiction to create a multigenerational, wickedly nostalgic saga of the CIA—known as "the Company" to insiders. Racing across a landscape spanning the legendary Berlin Bas...

The Sisters

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 CIA legends dubbed "the Sisters Death and Night," The Sisters...

Robert Littell (author)

Robert Littell (born January 8, 1935 in Brooklyn, New York, U.S.) is an American author residing part of the time in France (see his interview on France 24, ...

The Company

The Defection of A. J. Lewinter

The Once and Future Spy

An Agent In Place

The Sisters

The Company

Mother Russia

The Debriefing