Deze Amerikaanse auteur, woonachtig in Frankrijk, specialiseert zich in spionageromans die zich vaak richten op de CIA en de Sovjet-Unie. Zijn jarenlange ervaring als journalist voor Newsweek tijdens de Koude Oorlog gaf hem een diepgaand inzicht in de geopolitieke intriges die hij vervolgens in zijn werken verwerkte. Zijn vertelstijl is vaak spannend en vol wendingen, wat de realiteit van geheime operaties en de morele dilemma's van de personages weerspiegelt. Naast zijn literaire werk is hij ook een fervent bergbeklimmer, wat zijn vermogen om spanning op te bouwen en uitdagende situaties te beschrijven, kan beïnvloeden.
Wanneer Jack McAuliffe, Leo Kritzky en Elliott Winstrom Ebbitt II gerekruteerd worden als agent voor de CIA komen ze in een andere wereld terecht. Ze zullen hun dagen slijten in dubbellevens en leren omgaan met de gewetenswroeging die voortkomt uit de kennis van gruwelijke plannen en geheimen. Gebonden aan de wet en vaak gehinderd door de luimen van de Amerikaanse president vechten ze mee in de Koude Oorlog, met een stijfkoppige toewijding die aan het ongelooflijke grenst.
Wanneer de Amerikaanse wetenschapper A.J. Lewinter tijdens de Koude Oorlog overloopt naar de Sovjet-Unie, proberen de Amerikanen te achterhalen of hij over gevoelige informatie beschikt. Lewinter had in principe geen toegang tot de belangrijkste militaire geheimen, maar na enige tijd blijkt dat hij de beveiliging te slim af is geweest. De Sovjets vragen zich intussen af of Lewinter wel te vertrouwen is. Hij beweert te beschikken over zeer geheime gegevens, maar het lijkt te mooi om waar te zijn. Is het een valstrik van de Amerikanen, of heeft de Sovjet-Unie bij toeval de kans gekregen om de aartsvijand schaakmat te zetten? In een meesterlijke aaneenschakeling van valstrikken en tegenzetten wordt Lewinter de speelbal in een politiek spel vol verraad en bedrog. En de enige die weet wat hij waard is, is A.J. Lewinter zelf ...
Deep in the vastness of the Pentagon and the bowels of the massive KGB center in Moscow are old cold war warriors who refuse to fade away. Enter Ben Bassett - a novice diplomat newly dispatched to Moscow with a top secret security clearance and the paradoxical status of low level "housekeeper." Soon after his arrival, Bassett meets the fiercely independent, passionate Russian poet, Aida Zavaskaya, and falls under her spell. Together they become pawns in a dreadful plot whose ultimate goal is to return to the terrible past - and whose opening stakes are the life of her child. A prophetic tale of international suspense, An Agent in Place is also a love story, and an intricate novel of human character and moral responsibility.
Set against a backdrop of espionage and American history, this spy thriller delves into a top-secret CIA plan that has unexpectedly leaked. The narrative follows an operative known as "the Weeder," whose obsession with historical figures intertwines with a deadly race to uncover the leak. As the story unfolds, it explores complex moral dilemmas and the clash between past and present, raising questions about truth and patriotism. Robert Littell's masterful storytelling reveals the dark underbelly of intelligence operations, solidifying his reputation in the genre.
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 October Revolution in 1917, it is to put his life on the line in the hope of transforming Russia. But after witnessing the birth of a new era, he watches the people, and his own ideals, trampled by the rise of Josef Stalin-with whom Til is destined to have a shattering confrontation. Taking readers from the storming of the Winter Palace to the nightmares of the gulag, The Revolutionist is a masterwork of historical fiction.
Moscow, March 1953: As Stalin breathes his last, four women meet in Room 408 of the luxurious hotel Metropol. They have gathred to reminisce about the great poet Vladimir Mayakovsky, whose work they once inspired. Following his mysterious suicide twenty-five years earlier, he was canonised by Stalin - but in life he was a farmore complicated man, violently torn between art and politics. As his muses piece together their conflicting memories of the man, a portrait of the artist as a tormented young idealist emerges, revealing him as a sexual obsessive caught in the eye of history's storm, struggling to hold on to his ideals in the face of a revolution betrayed. In Vladimir M., Robert Littell creates a provocative cocktail of fiction and reality, bringing to life the tumultuous Stalinist era and the disaster it spelt for the artists it ensnared.
Lemuel Falk, a Russian theoretical chaoticist, accepts a position as a visiting professor at an upstate New York university, and a sexy hairdresser and a killer on the loose make his life utter chaos. 25,000 first printing. $25,000 ad/promo.
A award-winning, psychological post-Cold War novel--adapted as a TNT series starring Sean Bean--Legends is the next blockbuster spy novel from Robert Littell. Martin Odum is a onetime CIA field agent turned private detective in Brooklyn, struggling his way through a labyrinth of memories and past identities--"legends" in Agency parlance. But who is Martin Odum? Is he a creation of the Legend Committee at the CIA's Langley headquarters? Is he suffering from multiple personality disorder, brainwashing, or simply exhaustion? Widely considered one of the true grand masters of American spy fiction, Robert Littell shifts focus from the broad Cold War canvas of his international bestseller The Company to the life of a single CIA operative caught in a contradictory "wilderness of mirrors" in which remembering the past and forgetting it are both deadly options. From unforgettable opening to astonishing ending, Legends again proves Littell's unparalleled prowess as a seductive storyteller.
In the turbulent Middle East, fundamentalist Rabbi Isaac Apfulbaum is taken hostage by Palestinian terrorist Dr. al-Saath who is asking for the release of many Palestinian political prisoners.
Former homicide detective and CIA agent Lemuel Gunn left behind the Afghanistan battlefield for a trailer in New Mexico to forge a new career as a private investigator. Out of nowhere comes Ornella Neppi, a woman making a mess of her uncle's bail bonds business. She asks Gunn to track down the source of her troubles, a man named Emilio Gava, who has jumped bail after being arrested for buying cocaine. But no photos of Gava seem to exist. As Gunn begins his search for a man it seems that someone is protecting, hitting dead end after dead end, he starts to suspect that Gava might not exist at all...
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 death of his nuclear physicist father and the arrest of his mother during the Stalinist purge of Jewish doctors. Now on his own and hiding from the NKVD in the secret rooms of the House on the Embankment, the massive building in Moscow where many Soviet officials and apparatchiks live and work, Leon starts to explore. One day, after following a passageway, Leon meets Koba, an old man whose apartment is protected by several guards. Koba is a high-ranking Soviet official with troubling insight into the thoughts and machinations of Comrade Stalin. In this taut and layered novel, New York Times bestselling author Robert Littell deploys his deep knowledge of this complex period in Russian history and masterful talent for captivating storytelling to create a nuanced portrayal of the Soviet dictator, showing Stalin’s human side and his simultaneous total disregard for and ignorance of the suffering he inflicted on the Russian people. The charm and spontaneity of young Leon make him an irresistible narrator—and not unlike Holden Caulfield, whom he admits to identifying with—caught in the spider’s web of the story woven by this enigmatic old man.
A thrilling tale of the most infamous double-agent in history. One midnight in January in the early 1960s, the Russian freighter Domatova quietly slipped out of Beirut harbour. The ship had sailed with a single passenger on board named Harold Adrian Russell Philby. He tried to imagine the life that awaited him in the Soviet Union. Would Moscow Centre welcome him as a senior Soviet intelligence officer?
Set against the backdrop of New York City in early 1917, the narrative follows Lev Davidovich Bronshtein, known as Leon Trotsky, as he navigates life as a fugitive and revolutionary. With his family by his side, he grapples with profound questions about his ideology, familial bonds, and his connection to Lenin. As the February Revolution looms, Trotsky's journey becomes a compelling exploration of purpose, passion, and the sacrifices required for progress, masterfully crafted by espionage fiction author Robert Littell.
A spy thriller classic from the author of The Company Before Robert Littell vaulted onto the bestseller lists with The Company, The Amateur, which has been long out of print, established him as a contemporary master of the espionage thriller. In this sleek and murderous novel, Charlie Heller is an ace cryptographer for the CIA, a quiet man in a quiet back-office job. But when his fiancée is murdered by terrorists and the Agency decides not to pursue her killers, Heller takes matters into his own hands. The fact that he is an amateur makes him all the more dangerous. Mind-blowing in its intelligence, pulse-pounding in its suspense, The Amateur is a stunner.
Deep behind the Iron Curtain, Robespierre Pravdin, black marketeer, is prowling Moscow's streets, dividing his time between hustling wristwatches and trying to convince endless Party committees of the importance of Q-Tips to the grand Soviet future. By the author of "The Sisters".
Kniha rozhovorů s bývalým izraelským premiérem. Nositel Nobelovy ceny za mír rekapituluje svoje pohnuté životní osudy od dětství až po současné polemiky s premiérem Netanjahuem. Rozhovory rovněž přibližují Peresovy osobní názory na různorodá témata (např. náboženská, filozofická či kulturní problematika).
1934 greift in Moskau ein verzweifelter Dichter zu seiner letzten Waffe: dem Wort. Robert Littell, bekannt für seine Spionage- und Agententhriller, erzählt in diesem atemberaubenden Roman von einem verzweifelten Ringen, dem Glauben an die Macht des Wortes, bedingungsloser Liebe, Hoffnung und Verrat.
In Moskau herrscht Stalins eiserne Hand, die das Land im Würgegriff hält. Die brutale Kollektivierung führt zu Millionen von Hungertoten, während die Geheimpolizei willkürlich „Regimegegner“ verhaftet. Ossip Mandelstam, einst ein angesehener Dichter, ist in Ungnade gefallen und tritt in Kaschemmen auf, um vor einer Handvoll Gästen seine Gedichte vorzutragen. Bei einem dieser Auftritte begegnen er und seine Frau Nadeschda der jungen, schönen Theaterschauspielerin Zinaida. Es entsteht eine leidenschaftliche Ménage-à-trois, die sie hinter geschlossenen Vorhängen und verriegelten Türen leben.
Eines Abends ruft Ossip Nadeschda und Zinaida zu sich, um ihnen ein Gedicht vorzutragen, das das Volk aufrütteln soll: das Stalin-Epigramm. 16 Verse, die jeden Moment den Tod bedeuten können.
„Unter dem Kommando des ebenso ehrgeizigen wie schwachköpfigen Kapitäns J.P. Horatio Jones kreuzt die U.S.S. Ebersole, ein heruntergekommener, rostiger Schiffsveteran, gegen Ende des Vietnamkriegs in asiatischen Gewässern. Um Karriere zu machen und seinen Vorgesetzten zu beeindrucken, versucht Kapitän Jones mit seiner Crew, den eigentlich schon verlorenen Krieg um jeden Preis anzuheizen. Aber ein unbekanntes Wesen droht die patriotische Mission der Ebersole zu sabotieren. Eine geheimnisvolle Gestalt schleicht nachts über Deck und hinterläßt anonyme Flugzettel, die zur Meuterei, ja, schlimmer noch: zum Frieden aufrufen. Robert Littells Roman ist eine sarkastische Abrechnung mit dem militärischen Denken, für das der Krieg nicht die Hölle, sondern eine Karrierechance darstellt. Ein aber-witziger und bitter-böser Anti-Kriegs-Thriller in der Tradition von Joseph Hellers Catch 22 oder Richard Hookers M.A.S.H.“
Francis und Carroll sind zwei ebenso kauzige wie durchtriebene Originale innerhalb des ClA. Ihre »Spezialität« sind Komplotte und »nasse« Angelegenheiten. Diesmal planen sie die spektakuläre Ermordung einer mißliebigen politischen Persönlichkeit. Es soll das perfekte Verbrechen werden. Doch dann setzen ein ehemaliger russischer Geheimdienstoffizier und der sowjetische KGB alles daran, die Pläne der beiden ClA-Agenten zu durch- kreuzen. Ein unerbittlicher Wettlauf mit der Zeit beginnt...
Legendary spy novelist and bestselling author Robert Littell presents a luminous historical novel chronicling the famous Russian poet Osip Mandelstam's defiance of Stalin's regime, his subsequent exile, and his tragic death.
"Tatscho Abadschieff, Ex-Partisane, bulgarischer Nationalheld und Spitzensportler, ist Mitglied des >Oktoberkreises<, eines Zirkels von regimekritischen Intellektuellen, Künstlern und angesehenen Persönlichkeiten. Durch ihre Prominenz weitgehend geschützt, bleiben Abadschieff und seine Genossen lange Zeit unbehelligt und ungefährdet. Als sich eines Tages die politische Lage jedoch dramatisch verschärft, wird aus dem spielerischen Vergnügen, das System zu unterlaufen, mit einem Mal bitterer Ernst. Unerbittlich lässt die Regierung alle Mitglieder des Kreises verfolgen. Lediglich Abadschieff vermag den Häschern des Staates zu entkommen und sich in einer abenteuerlichen Flucht über die Grenze nach Griechenland abzusetzen. Dort erwartet ihn eine böse Überraschung..."
Ossip Mandelstam, le grand poète, n'est pas l'artiste qu'il aurait aimé être. Avec sa femme Nadejda, ils vivent de sexe et de vodka, enfermés dans leur appartement moscovite, sale et glacial. Effrayé par les dérives du stalinisme, Mandelstam veut sauver sa belle Russie des griffes de celui qu'il nomme "le montagnard du Kremlin". Ses poèmes moquant le dictateur vont lui coûter très cher... En tenant ses engagements, Robert Littell réussit son pari : raconter l'histoire d'une époque, montrer la victoire de l'art sur la dictature, mener une intrigue avec virtuosité sans jamais dérouter le lecteur.
Quelques mois seulement après l'arrivée au pouvoir du Likoud, S. Peres a accordé, en 1996, à Robert Littell, romancier et ancien journaliste à "Newsweek", une série d'entretiens. Littell donne un portrait de l'homme public comme de l'homme intime, et offre un aperçu de la politique en action.
