The Once and Future Spy: A Novel of Obsession - Hardcover

Robert Littell

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1585673889 ISBN 13: 9781585673889

Publisher: Duckworth & Co., 2007

Synopsis

HardCover. Pub Date: 2003 Pages: 294 Publisher: Penguin By National bestselling author Robert Littell. Whose most recent novel The Company received rave reviews across The Nation The Once and Future Spy is finally back in print. This is Littell at the top of his form. constructing a tale of espionage and counterespionage that reveal the dirty tricks and dangerous secrets concerning the subjects he knows intimately-the CIA and American history. past and present. Littell proves beyond all doubt that he is a storyteller of inimitable caliber. As Stephen Coonts put it. Eric Ambler invented the modern spy novel. Robert Littell perfected it. The Once and Future Spy is a classic spy story. At the center of Littell's plot is an elite plan. so secret and so dangerous that its existence is known only to a tiny group of specialists within CIA headquarters. There is virtually no paper t...

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Review:

"A must-read for the spy connoisseur how is wondering about the fate of espionage novels."

About the Author:

Robert Littell was born, raised, and educated in New York. A former Newsweek editor specializing in Soviet affairs, he left journalism in 1970 to write fiction full time. Connoisseurs of the spy novel have elevated Robert Littell to the genre's highest ranks, and Tom Clancy wrote that "if Robert Littell didn't invent the spy novel, he should have." He is the author of fifteen novels, including the New York Times bestseller The Company and Legends, the 2005 L.A. Times Book Award for Best Thriller/Mystery. He currently lives in France.

About this edition

• Publisher: Duckworth & Co.
• Publication date: 2007
• ISBN 10: 1585673889
• ISBN 13: 9781585673889
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 294