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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.    

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.

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 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?

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.

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.

Who is Martin Odum? A retired spy or a 'legend', a false identity, created by the CIA? This is the story of Martin Odum, a one-time CIA field agent, now a discharged spy turned private detective in Crown Heights, Brooklyn, struggling through a labyrinth of memories of past identities - 'legends' in CIA parlance.

Hochklassig wie ein Spionagethriller von John le Carré Francis und Carroll, genannt >die Schwestern Tod und Nacht

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

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).

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.

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...

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".

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 Washington, nel corso di un'operazione top secret, la CIA viene messa in pericolo.

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.

Ein amerikanisch-russisches Liebespaar gerät in die Strudel von Intrigen und Erpressung ewig gestriger Kalter Krieger von CIA und KGB.

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.

„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.“

Set against the backdrop of the Cold War, a disillusioned American scientist, A.J. Lewinter, makes a bold move to defect to the Soviet Union, igniting a high-stakes game of espionage. As he navigates the treacherous waters between the KGB and CIA, his potential insights could shift the balance of power amidst growing public dissent in the U.S. and resource scarcity in the Soviet Union. This darkly humorous spy thriller showcases Robert Littell's sharp commentary on international politics and the complexities of loyalty and truth.

De derde roman van de auteur, die internationale faam verwierf met zijn eerdere werken, verkent de oktoberkring, een groep Bulgaarse volkshelden die de veranderingen om hen heen gadeslaan in de hoop op een menselijker marxisme. Lev, een geëerde partizanenheld uit de Tweede Wereldoorlog, is bezig met het samenstellen van een catalogus van persona-non-gratae in de communistische wereld, tot hij zelf op die lijst belandt. Tacho, de wielrenner, vestigde ooit het wereldsnelheidsrecord op de fiets naar Bulgarije. Magister Dacho, een goochelaar, brengt luxe artikelen uit het kapitalistische westen naar zijn vrienden. De Dwerg, een gepensioneerde circusclown, reist met zijn blinde hond en een groep jonge nimfen in een gehuurde taxi. Popov, de halfdove dichter, maakt een inventaris van de wereld. Wanneer Dubcek ten val komt, besluit de oktoberkring in protest hun stem te laten horen, maar de staat blijkt sterker dan zijn helden. Hun leven verandert in een nachtmerrie als steeds meer leden van de oktoberkring in Levs catalogus worden opgenomen. Uiteindelijk blijft alleen Tacho over, die zijn protest buiten de grenzen kan uiten. Dit boek laat een blijvende indruk achter en is een van de meest originele en indrukwekkende romans van de laatste jaren.

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.