Crisis constantly lurks around the corner, monitored by spies who are always with us. In his career-capping thirteenth novel, master of the espionage thriller Robert Littell has crafted a breathtaking story of the legendary CIA - "The Company" to insiders. At its heart lies a spectacular mole hunt involving the CIA, MI6, KGB and Mossad - a stunningly conceived trip down the rab...
Crisis constantly lurks around the corner, monitored by spies who are always with us. In his career-capping thirteenth novel, master of the espionage thriller Robert Littell has crafted a breathtaking story of the legendary CIA - "The Company" to insiders. At its heart lies a spectacular mole hunt involving the CIA, MI6, KGB and Mossad - a stunningly conceived trip down the rabbit hole to the labyrinthine Alice-in-Wonderland world of espionage, "a wood where things have no names."
Racing across a landscape spanning the legendary Berlin Base of the 1950s - the front line of the simmering Cold War - the Soviet invasion of Hungary, the Bay of Pigs, Afghanistan, and the Gorbachev putsch, The Company tells the thrilling story of agents imprisoned in double lives, fighting an enemy that is amoral, elusive, and formidable. It also lays bare the internecine warfare within the company itself, adding another dimension to the spy vs. spy game.
Leo, his eyes burning, turned to Yevgeny. "Did you ever have a shadow of a doubt?"
"Only once," Yevgeny admitted. "It was when I met Philby in Gettysburg to tell him Burgess had run for it with Maclean. Starik wanted Philby to run for it, too, but he refused. He said he could bluff it out. He said as long as he didn't confess they could never lay a glove on him. Those were his exact words. Lay a glove on him. I used to replay this conversation in my skull—it was as if a needle had gotten stuck in a groove. It raised a question that I was afraid to ask, because if I asked it I'd have to answer it."
"Answer it now."
"The system Philby was spying for would not have had a problem getting a confession out of someone like Philby," Yevgeny admitted.
"The system Philby was spying for wouldn't ... (查看原文)
Leo sniggered in derision. "There's not much to tell. The Centre kept me on ice for several years when I came in. The address in Gorky was a decoy—it was supposed to throw off the CIA if they came looking for me, which of course they didn't. I went through endless debriefings. Case officers would bring me questions, area specialists would seek my opinion on this or that senator or Congressman, they'd ask me to read between the lines of the latest Presidential speech. When my conclusions reinforced the views held in the superstructure they were passed on. When they didn't they were shelved."
Yevgeny said, "It's an old story—an intelligence organization functioning in a country that doesn't tolerate dissent has a tendency to ignore dissenting information." (查看原文)
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0 有用 Tiffany 2024-04-14 01:24:40 美国
A brief history of CIA. Love the twist
1 有用 巴黎柚子姐 2011-05-05 01:00:53
冷战部分很精彩，结尾有些拖沓冗长，但总的来说是一部相当不错的间谍小说。贯穿很多真实历史事件，可当作CIA的野史看。