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Robert Littell

Comrade Koba: A Novel

By Robert Littell - Published 2020

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Ten-and-a-half-and two days-old Leon Rozental and his friends are on their own, scrounging for rubles to pay for meals, exploring tunnels between the ...Read Review

The Mayakovsky Tapes

By Robert Littell - Published 2016

Genres:

Literary

In 2012, the celebrated spy-thriller novelist Littell published Young Philby, a deftly complex story about “Kim” Philby, the most notorious espionage agent of the 20...Read Review

Young Philby

By Robert Littell - Published 2012

Genres:

Thriller

Bestselling suspense novelist Robert Littell follows the career of Kim Philby, a notorious Cold War secret agent—or double agent? triple agent?—beginning ...Read Review