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The Company
- A Novel of the CIA
- Narrated by: Scott Brick
- Length: 41 hrs and 22 mins
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The Company
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Publisher's Summary
Crisis constantly lurks around the corner, monitored by spies who are always with us. In his career-capping thirteenth novel, master of the espionage thriller Robert Littell has crafted a breathtaking story of the legendary CIA - "The Company" to insiders.
At its heart lies a spectacular mole hunt involving the CIA, MI6, KGB and Mossad - a stunningly conceived trip down the rabbit hole to the labyrinthine Alice-in-Wonderland world of espionage, "a wood where things have no names."
Racing across a landscape spanning the legendary Berlin Base of the 1950s - the front line of the simmering Cold War - 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 enemy that is amoral, elusive, and formidable. It also lays bare the internecine warfare within the company itself, adding another dimension to the spy vs. spy game.
What the critics say
"If Robert Littell didn't invent the American spy novel, he should have." (Tom Clancy, author of Patriot Games) "If le Carre is the Joyce of spy novelists, Littell is the Dickens." (Booklist, starred review). "An epic tale...peopled by heroes and villains who seem almost mythological in retrospect...Keeps you riveted." (Nelson DeMille, author of Up Country)
"Destined to become the definitive novel about the CIA." (Amazon.com)
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- Christopher J. Ferguson
- 2020-02-12
Best spy and tradecraft novel
Loved this book. Loved the history and I loved the narrator. Sometimes when you come across a 40 hour performance like this you, roll your eyes... For me 40 hours could’ve been 80 - I just loved it.
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- Mark
- 2019-02-08
Audio quality
Really enjoyed the book! Only complaint was technical: during quieter scenes there was noticeable background audio noise, as if there was a second track overlaid. It sounded like a very sped up dialogue that was incomprehensible. I’ve encountered other audio issues in other audible books too. Hopefully audible’s engineers clean up the files a bit better in the future.
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- Louison Bobett
- 2020-10-19
Great historical book on espionage
What a great book! Great cast of characters that lives through some important events of history. I thoroughly enjoyed the story.
Narration was excellent.
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- Neil Macpherson
- 2021-09-09
Cold War and beyond spy thriller superbly read
A fascinating and compelling Cold War thriller in the style of le Carré where Littell has woven a tale incorporating fictional and non fictional characters that take the listener from the inception of the CIA in the 1950’s to Boris Yeltsin’s Russia of the 90’s. Superbly narrated and at over 40 hours, well worth the audible credit!
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- Amazon Customer
- 2020-08-11
Great Listen
Every enjoyable, loved how everything came together in the end. Great insight to the cold war.
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- Debra de Jong
- 2020-06-24
Excessive swearing
Couldn’t get through the prologue. Too bad because I love espionage stories. The book became distasteful.
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