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  • Bibliography:
    21 Books
  • First Book:
    January 1973
  • Latest Book:
    February 2024
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Book List in Order: 21 titles



  • A scientist looking to defect causes Cold War chaos in this darkly humorous spy novel by the bestselling author of The Company.A.J. LeWinter is an American scientist, for years an insignificant cog in America’s complex defense machinery. While at a...



  • Stone is the head of an elite arm of the Joint Chiefs of Staff -- and a master of the psychologically sophisticated art of debriefing. When Oleg Kulakov defects from Russia, handcuffed to a sealed diplomatic pouch, it’s Stone’s job to find out if...



  • A spy thriller classic from the author of "The Company" Before Robert Littell vaulted onto the bestseller lists with "The Company, The Amateur," which has been long out of print, established him as a contemporary master of the espionage thriller. In...



  • This harrowing Cold War thriller from the New York Times"bestselling author of The Company is “a brave, ambitious, and most worthy book” (The Washington Post).   Connoisseurs of the literary spy thriller rank Robert Littell up there with J...



  • An astonishing thriller from the author of The Company

    A classic among espionage aficionados, The Sisters features what the New York Times called "the plot of plots." Centering on Francis and Carroll, two enigmatic and extremely dangerous CI...



  • A riveting thriller about crime and punishment in Soviet-era Moscow. Like the Arkady Renko novels of Martin Cruz Smith, Robert Littell's masterful Mother Russia transports readers back in time and behind the Iron Curtain to experience the extremes of...



  • Somewhere off the coast of Southeast Asia, the U.S.S. Eugene F. Ebersole -- a rusted World War II relic whose best days are far past -- patrols the waters on a mission to protect American values in this suddenly-not-so-Cold War. The decrepit destroye...



  • The New York Times"bestselling author’s decades-spanning novel of two Americans in the Soviet Union: “Gripping . . . suspense, danger, [and] adventure” (Chicago Tribune).   This thrilling historical saga follows two young ...



  • A rogue CIA operative threatens a clandestine mission in this spy thriller by the New York Times"bestselling author of The Company.The Once and Future Spy is Littell at the top of his form, constructing a tale of espionage and counterespionage reve...






  • Dispatched to Moscow, agent Ben Bassett falls under the spell of a Russian poet and becomes caught up in a plot by Soviet hardliners who, despite the end of the Cold War, are determined to turn back the clock. Reprint....



  • New York Times"Bestselling Author: After the USSR’s fall, a Russian academic is let loose in small-town America: “Rich and consistently surprising comedy.” -- Publishers Weekly   Lemuel Falk, a Russian theoretical chaoticist on the lam ...



  • Now back in print?a mesmerizing espionage thriller from the bestselling author of The Company

    Robert Littell has made a name for himself as one of the foremost authors of literary spy thrillers. Here, Littell abandons his usual East European ...



  • 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 CIA -- known as "the Company" to insiders. Racing...



  • A Brooklyn P.I. and ex-CIA agent looks for a missing man while suffering from an identity crisis in this thriller by the bestselling author of The Company.Martin Odum is a onetime CIA field agent turned private detective in Brooklyn, struggling his w...



  • The New York Times bestselling author Robert Littell presents a suspenseful and brilliantly topical new thriller that looks at the cycle of political violence in the Middle East. In the near future, an unprecedented Arab-Israeli settlement is brokere...



  • Based on a riveting historical episode, The Stalin Epigram is a fictional rendering of the life of Osip Mandelstam, perhaps the greatest Russian poet of the twentieth century -- and one of the few artists in Soviet Russia who daringly refused to pay ...



  • When Kim Philby fled to Moscow in 1963, he became the most notorious double agent in the history of espionage. Recruited into His Majesty’s Secret Intelligence Service at the beginning of World War II, he rose rapidly in the ranks to become the chi...



  • Former CIA agent Lemuel Gunn left the battlefield of Afghanistan for early retirement in the desert of New Mexico, where he works as a private investigator from the creature comforts, such as they are, of a mobile home. Into his life comes Ornella...



  • In March 1953, four women meet in Room 408 of Moscow’s deluxe Hotel Metropol. They have gathered to reminisce about Vladimir Mayakovsky, the poet who in death had become a national idol of Soviet Russia. In life, however, he was a much more complic...






  • A tight, captivating story of a naive child’s encounters with a Soviet dictator, the 20th novel by Robert Littell   Leon Rozental -- ten and a half, intellectually precocious, and possessing a disarming candor -- is suddenly alone after the de...



  • A brand-new novel from New York Times bestselling author Robert Littell, A Plague on Both Your Houses is a thrilling tale of love and war.On Christmas Day, 1991, Mikhail Gorbachev delivered a ten-minute televised speech announcing his resignation as ...


Award-Winning Books by Robert Littell

Legends
2005 L.A. Times Book Prize -- Mystery/Thriller


Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Robert Littell has published 21 books.

Robert Littell does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, A Plague on Both Your Houses, was published in February 2024.

The first book by Robert Littell, The Defection of A.J. Lewinter, was published in January 1973.

No. Robert Littell does not write books in series.