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Why we think it's Essential: Think of Mario Puzo doing a spy novel and you get a sense of the scope Littell achieves. Spanning over 40 years of CIA history, The Company is a multi-generational saga of men and women trying to do right in a world where deceit is a tool of the trade. Narrator-extraordinaire Scott Brick gives individuality to a large cast of characters, keeping the listener connected to them from The Bay of Pigs to the Reagan White House. —Ed Walloga
Publisher's Summary
Crisis constantly lurks around the corner, monitored by spies who are always with us. In his career-capping thirteenth novel, master of the espionage thriller Robert Littell has crafted a breathtaking story of the legendary CIA - "The Company" to insiders. At its heart lies a spectacular mole hunt involving the CIA, MI6, KGB and Mossad - a stunningly conceived trip down the rabbit hole to the labyrinthine Alice-in-Wonderland world of espionage, "a wood where things have no names."
Racing across a landscape spanning the legendary Berlin Base of the 1950s - the front line of the simmering Cold War - 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 enemy that is amoral, elusive, and formidable. It also lays bare the internecine warfare within the company itself, adding another dimension to the spy vs. spy game.
©2002 Robert Littell; (P)2002 New Millennium Audio, All Rights Reserved
What the Critics Say
"If Robert Littell didn't invent the American spy novel, he should have." (Tom Clancy, author of Patriot Games) "If le Carre is the Joyce of spy novelists, Littell is the Dickens." (Booklist, starred review)
"An epic tale...peopled by heroes and villains who seem almost mythological in retrospect...Keeps you riveted to the page." (Nelson DeMille, author of Up Country)
"Destined to become the definitive novel about the CIA." (Amazon.com)
From AudioFile
In this fascinating fictional look at the European operations of the CIA from the early 1950s to the mid-1990s, real people (Eisenhower, Reagan, Allen Dulles) abound. But the book's focus is on some dozen fictional characters employed by the CIA, KGB, Mossad, MI5, and other organizations involved in the clandestine activities of the Cold War. Narrator Scott Brick is brilliant. He manages a large and diverse cast that includes Americans from differing backgrounds, as well as English, German, Hungarian, Russian, and Israeli operators of both sexes and varying ages. At the same time that he somehow manages to keep all of the characters separate, giving each a distinct voice, his reading beautifully conveys the moods of the story: elation, terror, suspense, disappointment, joy. Brick's narration kept me hooked on the details of covert action through all 17 hours. (c) AudioFile 2003
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