Author: Robert Littell Year: 2001 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Thriller, Historical fiction, Adventure, Spies/Espionage, Mystery, Suspense
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ISBNs: 9780330372893 9780142002629 0330372890 0142002623 |
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An engrossing, multigenerational, wickedly nostalgic yet utterly entertaining and candid saga, bringing to life through a host of characters ' historical and imagined ' nearly fifty years of this secretive and powerful organization. Intelligent and ironic, Littell tells it like it was: CIA agents fighting not only the 'good fight' against foreign enemies, but sometimes the bad fight too. The ends justify such means as CIA-organized assassinations, covert wars, kidnappings, and the toppling of legitimate governments. Behind every manoeuvre and counter-manoeuvre, however, one question remains, which spans the length of the book . . . Who is the mole within the CIA? An astonishing novel that captures the life-and-death struggle of an entire generation of CIA operatives during a long Cold War. 'The best American spy writer currently at work' Daily Telegraph
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