Robert Littell

Robert Littell is the author of nineteen other highly acclaimed novels, many about the Cold War and the Soviet Union, including his masterwork, New York Times bestseller The Company, and the Los Angeles Times Book Award winner for best mystery-thriller, Legends. An American born in Brooklyn, Robert Littell now lives in France.
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Books by Robert Littell
Fictions and Others
Bronshtein in the Bronx
2026 | historical fiction
A Plague on Both Your Houses
2024 | historical fiction
Comrade Koda
2020 | spy thriller, historical fiction
Vladimir M.
2017 | historical fiction
The Mayakovsky Tapes
2016 | historical fiction, thriller, mystery
A Nasty Piece of Work
2013 | thriller, crime fiction, spy thriller, suspense thriller, mystery
Young Philby
2011 | historical fiction, thriller, spy thriller, mystery
The Stalin Epigram
2009 | historical fiction, thriller
Vicious Circle
2006 | adult, thriller, spy thriller, suspense thriller
Legends by Robert Littell
2005 | adult, thriller, crime fiction, spy thriller, suspense thriller, mystery
The Company
2002 | historical fiction, thriller, spy thriller, suspense thriller, mystery
Walking Back the Cat
1997 | thriller, crime fiction, spy thriller, mystery
The Visiting Professor
1993 | spy thriller
AN Agent in Place
1992 | thriller, spy thriller, mystery
The Once and Future Spy
1990 | thriller, spy thriller, mystery
The Revolutionist
1988 | spy thriller, historical fiction, mystery
The Sisters
1985 | thriller, spy thriller, mystery
The Amateur
1981 | thriller, crime fiction, spy thriller, mystery
The Debriefing
1979 | thriller, spy thriller, mystery
Mother Russia
1978 | thriller, spy thriller
The October Circle
1975 | historical fiction, thriller, spy thriller, mystery
Sweet reason
1974
The Defection of A.J. Lewinter
1973 | historical fiction, thriller, spy thriller, adventure, mystery