Tento americký autor žijúci vo Francúzsku sa špecializuje na špionážne romány, ktoré sa často zameriavajú na CIA a Sovietsky zväz. Počas studenej vojny pracoval mnoho rokov ako novinár pre Newsweek, čím získal hlboký vhľad do geopolitických intríg, ktoré potom vplietol do svojich diel. Jeho štýl písania je často napätý a plný zvratov, odrážajúci realitu tajných operácií a morálne dilemy postáv. Okrem svojej literárnej práce je tiež vášnivým horolezcom, čo sa môže premietnuť do jeho schopnosti budovať napätie a opisovať náročné situácie.
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).
A spy thriller classic from the author of The Company Before Robert Littell vaulted onto the bestseller lists with The Company, The Amateur, which has been long out of print, established him as a contemporary master of the espionage thriller. In this sleek and murderous novel, Charlie Heller is an ace cryptographer for the CIA, a quiet man in a quiet back-office job. But when his fiancée is murdered by terrorists and the Agency decides not to pursue her killers, Heller takes matters into his own hands. The fact that he is an amateur makes him all the more dangerous. Mind-blowing in its intelligence, pulse-pounding in its suspense, The Amateur is a stunner.
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