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Robert Littell's The Company is an engrossing, multigenerational, wickedly nostalgic yet utterly entertaining and candid saga bringing to life, through a host of characters—historical and imagined—the nearly 50 years of this secretive and powerful organization. In a style both intelligent and ironic, Littell tells it like it was: CIA agents fighting not only "the good fight" against foreign enemies, but sometimes the bad one as well, with the ends justifying such means as CIA-organized assassinations, covert wars, kidnappings, and the toppling of legitimate governments. Behind every manoeuvre and counter-manoeuvre, though, one question spans the length of the book... Who is the mole within the CIA? The Company — an astonishing novel that captures the life-and-death struggle of an entire generation of CIA operatives during a long Cold War.
Robert Littell does for the CIA what Mario Puzo did for the Mafia.
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