Robert Littell
1) Young Philby
Author
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Formats
Description
A work of suspense based on true-life historical characters imagines the early years and long-time Russian allegiance of double agent Kim Philby, whose 1963 defection from Britain's intelligence service to Moscow exposes the Cambridge Five double agents and raises innumerable questions about his ideals.
Author
Pub. Date
2013.
Physical Desc
viii, 259 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"A master of the spy genre crafts an exemplary detective novel, starring a former CIA agent turned private investigator, that already has the feel of a classic Robert Littell has been widely praised as one of the best writers in the espionage genre. Now, he's turned his formidable skills towards crime fiction in A Nasty Piece of Work, a novel that has echoes of the great Raymond Chandler. Former CIA agent Lemuel Gunn left the battlefield of Afghanistan...
Author
Pub. Date
[2005]
Physical Desc
10 sound discs (13.25 hr.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Struggling with disjointed memories about his past identities with the CIA, former field agent turned private detective Martin Odum wonders if he can trust his CIA psychiatrist and struggles to retain a hold on his sanity.
Author
Pub. Date
[[2016]
Physical Desc
243 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"In March 1953, four women meet in Room 408 of Moscow's deluxe Metropole Hotel. They have gathered, not altogether willingly, to reminisce about Vladimir Mayakovsky, the poet who in death had become a national idol of Soviet Russia. In life, however, he was a much more complicated figure. Each of these ladies loved Mayakovsky in the course of his life, and as they piece together their memories of him, a portrait of the artist emerges."--
Author
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
166 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"Moscow. After the death of his nuclear-physicist father and the arrest of his mother during the Stalinist purge of Jewish doctors, ten-year-old Leon Rozental hides in the secret rooms of the House on the Embankment. There he encounters Koba, a high-ranking Soviet officer with disturbing insights into the thoughts and actions of Joseph Stalin."--Provided by publisher.
Author
Pub. Date
1991.
Physical Desc
302 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
When the shadowy organization in Washington known as Intelligence Support Activity sends operative Ben Bassett first to Prague, then to Moscow, a series of plots and counterplots is set in motion that leads to the clandestine heart of the Soviet system itself.
