Legends - Softcover

Littell, Robert

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0143127403 ISBN 13: 9780143127406

Publisher: Penguin Group USA, 2014

Synopsis

Now a TNT series starring Sean Bean, from the producers of 24 and Homeland

Martin Odum is a one-time 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.

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Review:

No one has a better grasp of this shadow world than Littell He is back to what he does best: walking back the cat, tracing a path through the intense complexities of intelligence and counterintelligence, which combine to form a philosophical hell --Guardian

Littell's book is audacious, vivacious, original, and thrilling Reading it in the small hours was like gulping a slug of Stolichnaya straight from the freezer --Literary Review

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 eighteen novels, including the New York Times bestsellerThe Company and Legends, the 2005 L.A. Times Book Award for Best Thriller/Mystery.

About this edition

• Publisher: Penguin Group USA
• Publication date: 2014
• ISBN 10: 0143127403
• ISBN 13: 9780143127406
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 385