The Company

One of the most compelling spy thrillers ever written, the New York Times bestselling 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 CIA-known 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 enemy-and each other-in an internecine battle within the Company itself. A brilliant, stunningly conceived epic thriller, adapted as a miniseries starring Chris O'Donnell, Alfred Molina, and Michael Keaton, The Company confirms Littell's place among the genre's elite. From the legendary Berlin Base of the 1950s to the Soviet invasion of Hungary, the Bay of Pigs, Afghanistan, and the Gorbachev putsch, this masterwork follows CIA operatives locked in double lives-fighting an elusive, amoral enemy and, at times, each other. With breathtaking scope and razor-sharp detail, Littell lays bare the internecine battles within "the Company" itself, crafting a dazzling anatomy of Cold War espionage.

Robert Littell was born, raised, and educated in New York. A former Newsweek editor specializing in Soviet Affairs, he left journalism in 1970 to write fiction full time. He has been writing about the Soviet Union and Russians since his first novel, the espionage classic The Defection of A.J. Lewinter. He is the author of more than a dozen novels, including the critically acclaimed The Debriefing, The Sisters, The Once and Future Spy, the New York Times bestselling The Company, and Legends.