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Robert Littell
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Robert Littell

Bestselling author Robert Littell has been ranked amongst John Le Carre and Graham Greene for his masterful spy fiction. A Newsweek journalist in a previous incarnation, Littell has been writing about the Soviet Union and Russians since his first novel, the espionage classic The Defection of A.J.Lewinter. Among his numerous critically acclaimed novels are The October Circle, Mother Russia, The Debriefing, The Sisters, The Revolutionist, The Once and Future Spy, An Agent in Place, The Visiting Professor, the New York Times bestselling The Company (adapted for a TNT mini-series), and Legends (winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Award for Best Thriller of 2005) and For... Read full bio

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The Men We Became: My Friendship with John F. Kennedy, Jr.
Zimbio, January 2, 2012
...Robert list for authoritative information on this product's current rank.) Review & Description For over twenty years Robert Littell was John F. Kennedy Jr.'s closest confidant. Now, in a beautiful and moving memoir, Littell introduces us to the private...
Recommend Some Good Spy Literature
CHUD, December 23, 2011
...of 24 2/9/10 Ratty Hatfield of Dreams offline 11,237 Posts. Joined 2/2001 Reputation: 166 The Company by Robert Littell is pretty good. Mostly Cold War through 70's and 80's Middle Eastern shenanigans. post #6 of 24 2/9/10 nekkerbee Part of the problem...
BEA Show Daily 2011: Overlook's First 40 Years
PublishersWeekly.com, May 25, 2011
...Charles Portis's True Grit. Until last year, the closest that Overlook came to the bestseller list was Robert Littell's The Company, which reached #16. That's not to say that its books haven't done well, like Miyamoto Musashi's A Book of Five Rings,...
The troubled man
Sydney Morning Herald, April 1, 2011
...Wallander's usual pursuit of serial killers and sexual deviants, and venturing into the territory that Charles McCarry, Robert Littell and John le Carre so masterfully command, Mankell has broadened our understanding of Wallander and shown once again how...
A spy novel with humor (plus lots of shootouts and chases)
Washington Post, March 7, 2011
...humor can't be squeezed out of the spy game. Graham Greene triumphed in "Our Man in Havana"; Robert Littell provided ultra-black comedy in "The Defection of A.J. Lewinter"; and former CIA analyst Susan Hasler scored just last year in her ironically...
World of Terry O'Neill, photographer
Telegraph Fashion - Home Page, September 16, 2011
...the passion. I'm a sucker for all that. Reading matter I love thrillers (pictured). The Company by Robert Littell is one of the greatest books I've ever read. I like the Wallander books and all those Swedish writers. I thought Keith Richards's memoir...