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Robert Littell writes smart, sharp thrillers. Plots as feline and style as dashing as Littell's are rare in the spy genre.

Robert Littell writes smart, sharp thrillers. - The Observer, London. The Once and Future Spy is, if anything, even better than Robert Littell's previous thrillers. It is intriguing, funny, quirky, challenging, and above all, diverting.

Littell’s prose is often sparse, using precision to paint swift pictures of characters before getting into the main .

Littell’s prose is often sparse, using precision to paint swift pictures of characters before getting into the main business of the conversations. His description of KGB man Pogodin is particularly fine: one-quarter Marxist, one-quarter humanist, and one-half bureaucrat.

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The legendary spy thriller from bestselling author Robert Littell-whose newest book, The Company, is receiving rave .

This first novel, originally published in 1973, established Littell as a master and immediately elevated him to the ranks of John le Carré, Len Deighton, and Graham Greene. The Defection of A. J. Lewinteris a masterpiece of irony and intrigue, an unconventional and gripping anatomy of a defection.

A masterpiece of irony and intrigue, deft and dazzlingly plotted, this is Robert Littell's masterful debut - the opening shot of a brilliant career.

Lewinter is an American scientist, for years an insignificant cog in America's complex defense machinery. But now he is playing both sides against the middle - telling the Russians he wants to defect and tantalizing them with . military secrets he claims to possess. A masterpiece of irony and intrigue, deft and dazzlingly plotted, this is Robert Littell's masterful debut - the opening shot of a brilliant career.

The Defection of A. Lewinter Hardcover – January 1, 1973. 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. by. Robert Littell (Author). Find all the books, read about the author, and more. 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 . military secrets he claims to possess, but is his defection genuine?

Robert Littell is an unusual author; occupying a position somewhere in the middle-tier of espionage writing. He's not a household name but he's definitely known within the genre. The seamiest, most unflattering, most unsavory figures populate his casts. Lewinter" is a great book and a page-turner at that

The Defection of A. Lewinter" is a great book and a page-turner at that. A guy you wouldn't give a second thought to decides to defect while on a trip to Tokyo. Littell keeps the pressure on, as the Americans and the Soviets plot and scheme to figure out just what the heck has happened by this defection as well as how to play it. For the Soviets, will the Americans use reverse-psychology and act like the defection is no big deal (thereby hopefully leading the Soviets to conclude that Lewinter is a fraud)?

Автор: Littell, Robert Название: Defection of . Описание: Stone is the Head of an elite arm of the Joint Chiefs of Staff

Автор: Littell, Robert Название: Defection of . Описание: Stone is the Head of an elite arm of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. When Oleg Kulakov defects from Russia, handcuffed to a sealed diplomatic pouch, it& Stone& job to find out if he& genuine.

For his fourteenth novel, Robert Littell creates an engrossing, multigenerational, wickedly . Littell, an old hand at the genre (he wrote the classic The Defection of .

For his fourteenth novel, Robert Littell creates an engrossing, multigenerational, wickedly nostalgic yet utterly candid saga, bringing to life through a host of l and imagined-the over 40 years of the CIA-"the Company" to insiders. Lewinter) keeps it all moving well, and there are convincing set pieces: the fall of Budapest, the Bay of Pigs invasion in Cuba and an eerily prescient episode in Afghanistan, in which a character obviously modeled on Osama bin Laden appears, accompanied by a sidekick whose duty.