The Company: A Novel of the CIA

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.

About the Author:
Connoisseurs of the literary spy thriller have elevated Robert Littell to the genre's highest ranks-along with John le CarrŽ, 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), and The Once and Future Spy. Littell is also a former Newsweek journalist.