The Company : A Novel of the CIA (Paperback)

from mbowen

or someone accustomed to reading ludlum, littell's book is a very pleasant turn. it weaves a complex and compelling history of the cia as told through three generations of american and russian spies. as compared to ludlum, littell's characters are motivated by a patriotism that goes beyond the so...

from jcbrunner

The Bildungsroman follows the careers of three American and one Russian spying for the CIA and KGB from the 1950s to the 1990s. The main stations are Berlin 1950, Budapest 1956, Cuba 1961, Washington 1974, Afghanistan 1983 and Moscow 1991. Apart from the Bay of Pigs invasion, the novel stresses t...

from literaryrunner

This long novel deals with the CIA from directly after World War II in Berlin and the start of the Cold War through the first Iraq War. I was surprised how engrossed I became in the maneuverings of the agents, the political games, the spycraft, the betrayals, double agents, triple agents, murders...

from crazybatcow

I have been reading this book FOREVER!!! It is super long - as long as Abercrombie's works, but not as engaging - so I kept putting it down and reading other novels before finishing this one. All in all I enjoyed it, but I kinda wish it hadn't been all in one novel - perhaps the first part of the...

from Neilsantos

Wow. This was probably the best book I read this year. It was fantastic. I have recently rediscovered an old love for spy thrillers and this is an epic spy thriller. It isn't thrilling like an action movie, it uses a very slow burn to get through the operations. Warning: the book itself is huge, ...