The Company
The Company
The Company
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Average rating4.3
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Welcome to the Company - better known as the CIA to outsiders. With a sharp eye for the pathos and absurdity of the spy game, internationally renowned novelist Robert Littell seamlessly weaves together history and fiction to create a multigenerational, wickedly nostalgic saga that races across a landscape spanning the legendary Berlin Base of the 1950s, 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 enemy -- and each other -- in an internecine battle within the Company itself. A brilliant, stunningly conceived epic thriller, *The Company* confirms Littell's place among the genre's elite.
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Staggering.
This novel was full of crafty fiction, accurate history, and excellent depth. Few works of historical fiction are as engaging and, from my seat, appear as well researched.
2nd READ UPDATE:
This book was even better the second time. I can't believe I gave it only 4-starts. I'm upping it to five. Silly me!
I'm rating this a 4 not because I liked it but, because it was well written. I can't give it a bad mark just because it isn't my type. It is good and full of mystery and double meanings behind the words.
Again, it just wasn't my thing.
Personal rating is like a 1 and if my Fiance hadn't told me this was his favorite book I would have dropped it after page 2.
But well written and lots of characters with personality. And lots of turns and lies you don't see coming.
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