Ancien agent de la CIA, Lemuel Gunn est devenu détective privé. Il vit désormais dans un mobile home au Nouveau-Mexique. En plein marasme financier et sentimental, il rencontre une certaine Ornella Neppi, qui lui demande de retrouver Emilio Gava, un prévenu libéré sous caution qui s'est volatilisé à la veille de son procès.

Une belle saloperie

1963. Un message parvient au Pentagone : après s'être rendu à l'ambassade de l'URSS à Tokyo, l'ingénieur américain A. J. Lewinter vient de s'envoler pour Moscou avec le chef local du KGB. Côté Washington, une certitude : détenteur d'informations confidentielles, Lewinter est un traître. Côté Moscou, un doute : Lewinter est-il un agent infiltré ? Commence alors une vertigineuse partie d'échecs entre les différents camps, où chacun tente de tirer son épingle du jeu...

La défection de A. J. Lewinter

With a sharp eye for the pathos and absurdity of the Cold War, Robert Littell crafted his first novel, the now legendary spy thriller The Defection of A.J. Lewinter. Christopher Lehmann-Haupt of The New York Times called it "a perfect little gem, the best Cold War thriller I've read in years," and the praise kept coming with critics hailing Littell as "the American Le Carr&eacute" (New York Times) and raving that his books were "as good as thriller writing gets" (The Washington Post). For his fourteenth novel, Robert Littell creates an engrossing, multigenerational, wickedly nostalgic yet utterly candid saga, bringing to life through a host of characters-historical and imagined-the over 40 years of the CIA-"the Company" to insiders. At the heart of the novel is a stunningly conceived mole hunt involving such rivals and allies as the MI6, KGB, and Mossad. Racing across a canvas that spans the legendary Berlin Base in the 1950s-the front line of the simmering Cold War-to the Soviet invasion of Hungary, the Bay of Pigs, the Afghan war, the Gorbachev putsch, and other major theatres of operation for the CIA, The Company tells a thrilling story of agents imprisoned in double lives, fighting an enemy that was amoral, elusive, formidable. Littell tells it like it was: CIA agents, fighting not only the good fight, but sometimes the bad one as well. Littell also brilliantly lays bare the warring within the Company to add another dimension to the spy vs. spy game: the battles between the counterintelligence agents in Washington, like the utterly obsessive real-life mole hunter James Angleton, and the covert action boys in the field, like The Company's Harvey Torriti-the Sorcerer-a brilliant and brash rule breaker and dirty tricks expert who fights fire with fire, and his Apprentice, Jack McAuliffe, recruited fresh out of Yale, who learns tradecraft and the hard truths of life in the field. As this dazzling anatomy of the CIA unfolds, nothing less than the world's future in the second half of the twentieth century is at stake. At once a celebration of a long Cold War well fought, an elegy for the end of an era, and a reckoning for a profession in which moral ambiguity created a wilderness of mirrors, The Company is the Cold War's devastating truth, its entertaining tale, its last word.

La compagnie

Un espion d'hier et de demain

An Israeli government minister is assassinated in the home of his mistress. Days later, Elihu, an aging and decorated Mossad officer, leads his final raid, killing a Hamas leader in his bed and barely escaping with his life.Out of this familiarly cyclical scenario emerges what is perhaps Robert Littell s most heartfelt and suspenseful novel. The action moves forward into the near future, when the global community, united under the leadership of a visionary woman president of the United States, brokers a major compromise between Israel and the Palestinian authority in the hopes of snuffing out the violent flash-point that fuels the flames of global terrorism.But then, Isaac Apflbaum, a well-known fundamentalist Rabbi, is taken hostage by Dr. al-Saath, a legendary Palestinian terrorist, who demands the release of several Palestinian prisoners in exchange for his prisoner. As Israel coaxes Elihu out of retirement to hunt down the terrorist who motivated his final mission, al-Saath and Apflbaum find themselves building an extraordinary relationship between hostage taker and hostage: parallels between these two battle-hardened partisans become the bonds that could lead to reconciliation. But with the Mossad strike team closing in, has the vicious circle already been closed.Ferociously suspenseful and brilliantly topical, Vicious Circle is a thriller that, like The Company before it, breaks down an entire culture of violence into the corrupted consciences that embody it.

Les enfants d'Abraham

Koulakov s'est enfui avec une valise diplomatique qu'il a remise aux services secrets américains. Véritable transfuge ou agent double des Soviétiques? C'est à Stone, chef d'un service spécial de l'Interarmes, de le découvrir: il va enfin pouvoir enquêter en territoire ennemi, une opportunité qu'il attend depuis vingt ans! Il n'imaginait pas devenir le pantin d'une machination sans précédent...

Le transfuge

Legendary spy novelist and bestselling author Robert Littell presents a luminous historical novel chronicling the famous Russian poet Osip Mandelstam's defiance of Stalin's regime, his subsequent exile, and his tragic death.

L'hirondelle avant l'orage

Beskrivelse: Da Kim Philby flygtede til Moskva i 1963, blev han den mest omtalte og berygtede dobbeltagent i spionagens historie. Ved begyndelsen af Anden Verdenskrig var han blevet hvervet til den engelske efterretningstjeneste. Han steg hurtigt i graderne og blev efter krigen udstationeret i Washington som ledende forbindelsesofficer mellem det engelske Secret Service

Une belle saloperie

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