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Ferociously suspenseful and brilliantly topical, Vicious Circle is a thriller that, like The Company before it, breaks down an. .

Ferociously suspenseful and brilliantly topical, Vicious Circle is a thriller that, like The Company before it, breaks down an entire culture of violence into the corrupted consciences that embody it. Muscularly plotted suspense. The Washington Post A tale to hold its own with. John le Carré’s The Little Drummer Girl. and Robert Stone’s Damascus Gate. Robert Littell's novels include the New York Times–bestseller The Company, The October Circle, Mother Russia, The Amateur, The Once and Future Spy, An Agent in Place, The Visiting Professor, and Walking Back the Cat. A former Newsweek journalist, he is an American currently living in France.

Robert Littell was born, raised, and educated in New York. Connoisseurs of the spy novel have elevated Robert Littell to the genre's highest ranks, and Tom Clancy wrote that "if Robert Littell didn't invent the spy novel, he should have. He is the author of fifteen novels, including the New York Times bestseller The Company and Legends, the 2005 . Times Book Award for Best Thriller/Mystery. He currently lives in France.

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In Vicious Circle, his new thriller, the veteran spy novelist Robert Littell has failed to heed the lesson of Willie Beamen. Littell, whose previous novels have focused mainly on the Central Intelligence Agency and the cold war, here turns his attention to a hotter theater, Israel. Vicious Circle has an audacious premise. Early on, Dr. Isma’il al-Saath, a legendary Muslim terrorist, kidnaps Isaac Apfulbaum, an ultra-Orthodox rabbi, threatening to kill Apfulbaum unless Israel releases more than 100 prisoners. Al-Saath does not expect the Israelis to meet his demand.

Vicious Circle: A Novel of Complicity

Vicious Circle: A Novel of Complicity. A delicious post -cold war romp, The Visiting Professor is another classic page-tuner for the many fans that have come to recognize Robert Littell-thanks to The Company and its recent TNT miniseries-as a thriller writer on par with John le Carré and Alan Furst.

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Robert Littell's novels include the New York Times bestseller The Company and many others. A former Newsweek journalist, he makes his home in France. From AudioFile: Writing fiction about the volatile Middle East is risky-events in that region are happening so fast that a book can quickly seem outdated. Thanks to Scott Brick's capable reading of Littell's latest, one hardly notices the part of the story that isn't quite current.

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A Novel of Complicity. Robert Littell was born on January 8, 1935 in Brooklyn, New York. If no book jacket appears in a few seconds, then we don't have an excerpt of this book or your browser is unable to display it). Membership Advantages. He has been ranked amongst John Le Carre and Graham Greene for his masterful spy fiction. A Newsweek journalist in a previous incarnation, Littell has been writing about the Soviet Union and Russians since his first novel, the espionage classic The Defection of .

Out of this familiarly cyclical scenario emerges what is perhaps Robert Littell s most heartfelt and suspenseful novel. The action moves forward into. An Israeli government minister is assassinated in the home of his mistress. Out of this familiarly cyclical scenario emerges what is perhaps Robert Littell s most heartfelt and suspenseful novel.