The Company: A Novel of the CIA Piloting & Flight Instruction revealing the mental and psychological

revealing the mental and psychological battles waged between interrogation soldiers and their Al Qaeda and Taliban prisoners of war

blues-anchored songwriting

to a point at which a familiar idea--that whether the planet is vast or small is merely a matter of perspective--strikes home with the force of a new revelation

" the haunted "McDow Hole

The Company: A Novel of the CIA Piloting & Flight Instruction revealing the mental and psychologicalWith a sharp eye for the pathos and absurdity of the Cold War, Robert Littell crafted his first novel, the now legendary spy thriller The Defection of A. J. Lewinter. Christopher Lehmann Haupt of The New York Times called it "a perfect little gem, the best Cold War thriller I've read in years," and the praise kept coming with critics hailing Littell as "the American Le Carr" (New York Times) and raving that his books were "as good as thriller writing