
The Company
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The New York Timesbestselling spy novel The Companylays bare the history and inner workings of the CIA. This critically acclaimed blockbuster from internationally renowned novelist Robert Littell seamlessly weaves together history and fiction to create a multigenerational, wickedly nostalgic saga of the CIA-known as "the Company" to insiders. Racing across a landscape spanning the legendary Berlin Base of the '50s, the Soviet invasion of Hungary, the Bay of Pigs, Afghanistan, and the Gorbachev putsch, The Companytells the thrilling story of agents imprisoned in double lives, fighting an amoral, elusive, formidable enemy-and each other-in an internecine battle within the Company itself.
"Compulsive reading from start to finish." - The Boston Globe
"Hugely entertaining... A serious look at how our nation exercises power.... Popular fiction at its finest." - The Washington Post Book World
"As it happens, this longest spy novel ever written turns out to be one of the best." - Chicago Tribune
"Reads like a breeze... guaranteed to suck you right back into the Alice-in-Wonderland world of spy vs. spy." - Newsweek
"If Robert Littell didn't invent the American spy novel, he should have." -Tom Clancy
"It's gung-ho, hard-drinking, table-turning fun." - Publishers Weekly
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- Intro
- COPYRIGHT
- DEDICATION
- AUTHOR'S NOTE:
- INTERLUDE: THE CALABRIAN
- PRELUDE: THE ANATOMY OF AN EXFILTRATION
- PART ONE: PRIMING THE GUN
- 1: NEW LONDON, CONNECTICUT, SUNDAY, JUNE 4, 1950
- 2: MOSCOW, TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 5, 1950
- 3: FRANKFURT, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 7, 1951
- 4: BERLIN, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 23, 1951
- 5: BERLIN, TUESDAY, MARCH 6, 1951
- 6: WASHINGTON, DC, FRIDAY, MARCH 30, 1951
- 7: WASHINGTON, DC, THURSDAY, APRIL 5, 1951
- 8: HEIDELBERG, MONDAY, APRIL 9, 1951
- 9: BERLIN, THURSDAY, APRIL 12, 1951
- 10: BERLIN, TUESDAY, APRIL 17, 1951
- 11: FRANKFURT, MONDAY, APRIL 23, 1951
- 12: FRANKFURT, WEDNESDAY, MAY 2, 1951
- 13: BERLIN, FRIDAY, MAY 11, 1951
- 14: ARLINGTON, SUNDAY, MAY 20, 1951
- 15: GETTYSBURG, SATURDAY, MAY 26, 1951
- 16: WASHINGTON, DC, MONDAY, MAY 28, 1951
- 17: BERLIN, SATURDAY, JUNE 2, 1951
- 18: CHERYOMUSKI, MOSCOW DISTRICT, MONDAY, JUNE 4, 1951
- PART TWO: THE END OF INNOCENCE
- 1: MOSCOW, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 25, 1956
- 2: NEW YORK, MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 17, 1956
- 3: BUDAPEST, TUESDAY, OCTOBER 16, 1956
- 4: WASHINGTON, DC, SUNDAY, OCTOBER 21, 1956
- 5: BUDAPEST, TUESDAY, OCTOBER 23, 1956
- 6: VIENNA, MONDAY, OCTOBER 29, 1956
- 7: BUDAPEST, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 2, 1956
- 8: WASHINGTON, DC, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 3, 1956
- 9: BUDAPEST, SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 4, 1956
- 10: VIENNA, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 7, 1956
- 11: BUDAPEST, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 8, 1956
- 12: WASHINGTON, DC, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 23, 1956
- PART THREE: VICIOUS CIRCLES
- 1: WASHINGTON, DC, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 9, 1960
- 2: NEW YORK, TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 22, 1960
- 3: PALM BEACH, TUESDAY, JANUARY 10, 1961
- 4: WASHINGTON, DC, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 11, 1961
- 5: WASHINGTON, DC, TUESDAY, APRIL 4, 1961
- 6: BLUE BEACH, THE BAY OF PIGS, MONDAY, APRIL 17, 1961
- 7: WASHINGTON, DC, FRIDAY, MAY 5, 1961
- PART FOUR: SLEEPING DOGS
- 1: CHERYOMUSKI, MOSCOW DISTRICT, WEDNESDAY, MAY 1, 1974
- 2: WASHINGTON, DC, SUNDAY, MAY 12, 1974
- 3: WASHINGTON, DC, FRIDAY, MAY 24, 1974
- 4: MOSCOW, SUNDAY, JUNE 9, 1974
- 5: WASHINGTON, DC, THURSDAY, JULY 4, 1974
- 6: WASHINGTON, DC, TUESDAY, JULY 30, 1974
- 7: EN ROUTE TO THE SOVIET UNION, SATURDAY, AUGUST 10, 1974
- 8: WASHINGTON, DC, SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 8, 1974
- 9: SANTA FE, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 12, 1974
- 10: WASHINGTON, DC, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 21, 1974
- INTERLUDE: THE CALABRIAN
- CIVITAVECCHIA, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 28, 1978
- PART FIVE: BLIND ALLEY
- 1: PESHAWAR, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 13, 1983
- 2: WASHINGTON, DC, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 19, 1983
- 3: SOMEWHERE IN AFGHANISTAN, SUNDAY, OCTOBER 23, 1983
- 4: WASHINGTON, DC, MONDAY, NOVEMBER 7, 1983
- 5: CHERYOMUSKI, MOSCOW DISTRICT, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 12, 1983
- 6: YATHRIB, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 18, 1983
- PART SIX: DEAD RECKONING
- 1: MOSCOW, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 28, 1991
- 2: PERKHUSHOVO, FRIDAY, APRIL 19, 1991
- 3: BASEL, SATURDAY, JUNE 15, 1991
- 4: DRESDEN, THURSDAY, AUGUST 1, 1991
- 5: NEAR FOROS ON THE CRIMEAN PENINSULA, MONDAY, AUGUST 19, 1991
- POSTLUDE: THE ANATOMY OF AN INFILTRATION
- VIENNA, VIRGINIA, SUNDAY, AUGUST 6, 1995
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