The Rap Sheet (Free subscription) | 11/10/2009
My work often puts me in contact with literary agents, and I enjoy hearing their insights into the current state of publishing and future fiction releases. Among the top UK representatives working in the crime fiction and thriller genre are Jane Gregory ; Ed Victor , who represents Robert Littell ; Judith Murdoch , who looks after Tony Black ; Broo Doherty , who takes care of Paul Johnston ; Carole...
Fantasy Book Critic (Free subscription) | 09/19/2009
INTRODUCTION: For various reasons - mostly time/energy, but sometimes just timing, there are a lot of books that we read here at FBC but we do not get to fully review, so occasionally we do capsule reviews and even un-reviews that add value but are too brief to include in the Review Index . Until now we included the permanent links to these posts in the Contributors Essays Index , but now that we have...
San Fransisco Chronicle (Free subscription) | 05/29/2009
The Stalin Epigram By Robert Littell (Simon & Schuster; 367 pages; $26) The Increment By David Ignatius (W.W. Norton; 390 pages; $26.95) It happens to the best of them, seasoned thriller writers taking it upon themselves to write a novel that extends...
Vulture (Free subscription) | 03/11/2009
Why, hello there: Littell. There are all kinds of reasons why Jonathan Littell's novel The Kindly Ones should spur debate. Written in French by the somewhat reclusive American-born (and Jewish) son of thriller writer Robert Littell, it's the nearly 1,000-page-long unrepentant confession of an SS officer in hiding, a sort of evil Forrest Gump, who flits between the Ukraine, Auschwitz, and Hitler's...
High-Def Digest: Blu-ray Disc News (Free subscription) | 12/27/2007
'The Company' is based on a 2002 New York Times bestselling novel by author Robert Littell that details the evolution of the CIA during the Cold War. Hailed by critics and praised by readers, the book...
BrothersJudd Blog (Free subscription) | 12/23/2007
Smiley's model : John Bingham not only wrote fascinating spy novels -- he also inspired one of John Le Carre's singular characters (Sarah Weinman, December 23, 2007, LA Times) Without Le Carré, current spymasters such as Robert Littell, Charles McCarry, Stella Rimington and Daniel Silva might not have careers. But Le Carré himself owes his career to a colleague of his own. When the author...
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