Racing across a canvas that spans the legendary Berlin Base in the 1950s - the front line of the simmering Cold War - to the Soviet invasion of Hungary, the Bay of Pigs, the Afghan war, the Gorbachev putsch, and other major theatres of operation for the CIA, The Company tells a thrilling story of agents imprisoned in double lives, fighting an enemy that was amoral, elusive, formidable.
Littell tells it like it was: CIA agents, fighting not only the good fight, but sometimes the bad one as well. Littell also brilliantly lays bare the warring within the Company to add another dimension to the spy vs. spy game: the battles between the counter-intelligence agents in Washington and the covert action boys in the field.
The Company is the Cold War's devastating truth, its entertaining tale, its last word. Connoisseurs of the literary spy thriller have elevated Robert Littell to the genre's highest ranks - along with John le Carre, Len Deighton and Graham Greene. Littell's novels include "The Defection of A.J. Lewinter", "The October Circle", "Mother Russia", "The Amateur" (which was made into a feature film), "The Once and Future Spy", "An Agent in Place", "The Visiting Professor", and "Walking Back the Cat". His works have been published in 12 languages, and even before publication "The Company" was sold in six countries.
