Tento americký autor, který žije ve Francii, se proslavil svými špionážními romány, které se často zaměřují na téma CIA a Sovětského svazu. Během studené války pracoval mnoho let jako novinář pro magazín Newsweek, což mu poskytlo hluboký vhled do geopolitických intrik, které následně vetkal do svých děl. Jeho vypravěčský styl je často napjatý a plný zvratů, odrážející realitu tajných operací a morální dilemata postav. Kromě svého literárního díla je také vášnivým horolezcem, což se může promítat do jeho schopnosti budovat napětí a popisovat náročné situace.
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).
Vynikající kryptograf Charlie Heller nerušeně pracuje u Ústřední zpravodajské služby v Langley, dokud mu teroristé na americkém konzulátu v Mnichově chladnokrevně nezastřelí snoubenku. Charlie se pere s beznadějí a marně nutí CIA k odvetě. Teprve když řediteli Služby pohrozí, že proti němu využije přísně tajné materiály, k nimž má jako šifrant přístup, donutí ho přistoupit na podmínky. Heller projde rychlým výcvikem, brzy pronikne za železnou oponu a pronásleduje vrahy napojené na Sovětský svaz do Československa. To už ho ale kromě pomsty zaměstnávají i nečekané vražedné nástrahy od zpravodajské služby a on se jako neřízená střela řítí do nebezpečné hry vysokých vrstev mezinárodní špionáže. Ve světě profesionálů je Charlie Heller… amatér.
An engrossing, multigenerational, wickedly nostalgic yet utterly entertaining and candid saga, bringing to life through a host of characters – historical and imagined – nearly fifty years of this secretive and powerful organization. Intelligent and ironic, Littell tells it like it was: CIA agents fighting not only the ‘good fight’ against foreign enemies, but sometimes the bad fight too. The ends justify such means as CIA-organized assassinations, covert wars, kidnappings, and the toppling of legitimate governments. Behind every manoeuvre and counter-manoeuvre, however, one question remains, which spans the length of the book . . . Who is the mole within the CIA? An astonishing novel that captures the life-and-death struggle of an entire generation of CIA operatives during a long Cold War. ‘The best American spy writer currently at work’ Daily Telegraph
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.
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 Base of the '50s, the Soviet invasion of Hungary, the Bay of Pigs, Afghanistan, and the Gorbachev putsch, The Company tells the thrilling story of agents imprisoned in double lives, fighting an amoral, elusive, formidable enemy--and each other--in an internecine battle within the Company itself. A brilliant, stunningly conceived epic thriller, The Company confirms Littell's place among the genre's elite. View The Company TV tie-in page feature here.
A novel that dissects a culture of violence, exploring the corrupted consciences that embody it and examining the brutal psychology of a defining conflict of our time.
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.
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: an Englishman named Harold Adrian Russell Philby, nicknamed Kim. He had fled the Lebanese capital with little more than the clothes on his back. Would Moscow Centre welcome him as a senior Soviet intelligence officer?
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.
From its unforgettable opening to its astonishing ending, Legends proves an unrivalled powerhouse of seductive storytelling