New York Times Bestselling
Author of The Company and
The Amateur
The Amateur
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“A taut, chilling plot and a protagonist as memorable as one of Len Deighton’s, or le Carré’s Smiley.”
—The New York Times Book Review
Charlie Heller is an ace cryptographer for the CIA, a quiet man in a quiet back-office job. But when his fiancée, Sarah Diamond, is murdered by terrorists at the American Embassy in West Germany and the Company refuses to pursue her killers, Heller takes matters into his own hands. Tracking down Sarah’s killers behind the Iron Curtain in Czechoslovakia, Heller becomes both the hunter and the hunted—an amateur facing off against the world’s deadliest assassins and spies. But nothing will stop him from getting revenge. Expertly plotted with shocking twists and pulse-pounding suspense, 'The Amateur' is a sleek and stunning novel that belongs on the shelves of every espionage fan.
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The Amateur
The Amateur, a major motion picture based on Robert Littell’s spy thriller classic starring Academy Award® winner Rami Malek, Rachel Brosnahan, and Academy Award® nominee Laurence Fishburne, follows Charlie Heller, CIA ace cryptographer, who ventures to Czechoclovakia seeking revenge against the spies who killed his fiancée.
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Bronshtein in the Bronx
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“Narrated in the first person by Lev Bronshtein (Leon Trotsky’s real name), the novel proceeds by dint of encounter, argument, exposition and wisecrack—a dialectic of sorts . . . Imaginatively uninhibited . . . The author has clearly done his research.”
—The Wall Street Journal
January 12, 1917: An ocean liner docks in New York Harbor. Among the disembarking emigrants is one Lev Davidovich Bronshtein—better known by his nom de guerre, Leon Trotsky. Bronshtein has been on the run for a decade, driven from his beloved Russia after escaping political exile in Siberia. He lives for—and is ready to sacrifice his life for—a workers’ revolution, at any cost. But is he ready to become an American? In the weeks leading up to the February Revolution that will eventually see Lenin’s Bolsheviks seize power, Bronshtein haunts the streets, newspaper offices, and socialist watering holes of New York City, wrestling with the difficult questions of his personal revolutionary ideology, his place in his own family, his relationship to Lenin, and, above all, his conscience. Master of the espionage novel Robert Littell brings to life the world-famous revolutionist’s sojourn in the Bronx in this extraordinary meditation on purpose, passion, and the price of progress.
