The Company

This realistic New York Timesbestselling epic spy novel captures the thrilling story of CIA agents in the latter half of the Twentieth Century.

The New York Times bestselling spy novel The Company lays bare the history and inner workings of the CIA. This critically acclaimed blockbuster from internationally renowned novelist Robert Littell seamlessly weaves together history and fiction to create a multigenerational, wickedly nostalgic saga of the CIAknown as "the Company" to insiders. Racing across a landscape spanning the legendary Berlin Base of the '50s, the Soviet invasion of Hungary, the Bay of Pigs, Afghanistan, and the Gorbachev putsch, The Company tells the thrilling story of agents imprisoned in double lives, fighting an amoral, elusive, formidable enemyand each otherin an internecine battle within the Company itself.

"Compulsive reading from start to finish." The Boston Globe

"Hugely entertaining . . . A serious look at how our nation exercises power. . . . Popular fiction at its finest." The Washington Post Book World

"As it happens, this longest spy novel ever written turns out to be one of the best." Chicago Tribune

"Reads like a breeze . . . guaranteed to suck you right back into the Alice-in-Wonderland world of spy vs. spy." Newsweek

"If Robert Littell didn't invent the American spy novel, he should have." Tom Clancy

"It's gung-ho, hard-drinking, table-turning fun." Publishers Weekly

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