Robert Littell
Writing
Biography
Robert Littell (born January 8, 1935) is an American novelist and former journalist in Flives. He specialises in spy novels that often concern the CIA and the Soviet Union. Robert Littell was born in Brooklyn, New York, on January 8, 1935, to a Jewish family of Russian Jewish origin. He is a 1956 graduate of Alfred University in western New York. He spent four years in the U.S. Navy. He sometimes served as his ship's navigator, antisubmarine warfare officer, communications officer, and deck watch officer. Later, Littell became a journalist and worked for Newsweek for many years during the Cold War. He was a foreign correspondent for the magazine from 1965 to 1970. Littell is an amateur mountain climber and is the father of award-winning novelist Jonathan Littell. His brother, Alan Littell (born 1929), is also an author and journalist. He is the brother-in-law of the French writer Bernard du Boucheron. Description above from the Wikipedia article Robert Littell (author), licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Known For
Working for the FBI's Deep Cover Operations division, Martin Odum can transform himself into a different person -- whether it's an assignment as a Serbian extremist, a corrupt Chicago police officer, a British special forces colonel, or a legendary computer hacker. But when he learns that his life, itself, may be a lie, he faces the demands of his job and a desire to solve the mystery of his identity. And given the choice between the two, Odum doesn't always make the right decision.
Legends
After his life is turned upside down when his wife is killed in a London terrorist attack, a brilliant but introverted CIA decoder takes matters into his own hands when his supervisors refuse to take action.
The Amateur
The Company tells the thrilling story of Cold War CIA agents imprisoned in double lives, fighting an amoral, elusive, formidable enemy – and each other – in an internecine battle within the Company itself.
The Company
Series of television versions of famous folk tales and classic literature.
Festival of Family Classics
A researcher for the CIA who convinces his superiors to send him to the eastern bloc in order to avenge the murder of his wife by enemy agents discovers a web of deception underneath his wife's death.
The Amateur
When their music teacher needs an expensive operation after being mugged, a group of precocious middle school students attempt to raise the money by selling fake military secrets to the KGB.