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Title	:	The Company
Author	:	Robert Littell
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	First Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 1281 pages
Published	:	2003 by Pan Publishing (first published April 1st 2002)
Categories	:	Fiction. Thriller. Historical. Historical Fiction. Spy Thriller. Espionage. Mystery. Audiobook. Suspense

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Robert Littell does for the CIA what Mario Puzo did for the Mafia Robert Littell's The Company is an engrossing, multigenerational, wickedly nostalgic yet utterly entertaining and candid saga bringing to life, through a host of characters --historical and imagined - the nearly 50 years of this secretive and powerful organization. In a style intelligent and ironic, Littell tells it like it was: CIA agents fighting not only 'the good fight' against foreign enemies, but sometimes the bad one as well, with the ends justifying such means as CIA-organized assassinations, covert wars, kidnappings, and toppling of legitimate governments. Behind every manoeuvre and counter-manoeuvre, though, one question spans the length of the book... Who is the mole within the CIA? The Company - an astonishing novel that captures the life and death struggle of an entire generation of CIA operatives during a long Cold War.

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Original Title:	The Company
ISBN:	0330372890 (ISBN13: 9780330372893)
Edition Language:	English

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Ratings: 4.23 From 4688 Users | 389 Reviews

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I haven't been this engrossed in a novel in a very long time. Easily one of the best spy novels I've ever read. Very suspenseful, but also humorous. Cannot recommend it highly enough.

One of the great cold-war, spy novel epics. Belongs on the shelf next to le Carré's Karla Trilogy: Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy / The Honourable Schoolboy / Smiley's People and Mailer's Harlot's Ghost.

Downloaded from Audible.comNarrator: Scott BrickPublisher: Phoenix Audio, 2002Length: 40 hours and 43 min.Publisher's SummaryCrisis 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

This book is a novel about the CIA, and is pretty long for a spy novel. It follows a series of friends from their recruitment into the CIA after college during the cold war to their retirement just after the Coup in the Soviet Union. The book reads much like a Le Carre, and it's made me interested enough to go back and read about what actually happened in some of these worldwide events that were covered in the book. It does cover a lot of territory, and maybe I just missed it, but i didn't see

A rather engrossing novel about the CIA during the cold war. This novel is rather unique in that it deals with the Company throughout several decades, beginning in the late 1950s and going through the early 1990s. It follows the career of several spies from recruitment all the way up to retirement (or death in some cases) as they slowly climb the ladders of the organization.But the novel is truly a work of fiction, even if it manages to incorporate some of the historical events in which the

If I expect to get through 52 books in 2011, then I need to stop picking up 900 and 1100 page books. Littell's The Company clocks in at around 900 pages. At least 700 of those are well worth the time--I'm not going to quibble about the rest. Given that the book starts in pre-Wall Berlin, and the action ends with the August 1991 coup attempt in the Soviet Union, the length is understandable.After finishing the book I was struck with a question of who and how much in the book was history and how

Amazing. Brilliantly written and incorporates various points in history. Warning: very long, but worth it! I'm currently working on my tradecraft