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parsnippers 's review for:
The Company
by Robert Littell
Hand up I’m most likely rounding up for a 5 piecer here because I was at the beach all week and this was an ELITE beach read. First real foray into spy/espionage thriller as an adult, and folks you might not realize this but it’s pretty enjoyable and somewhat stressful trying to figure out who’s playing it straight, who’s double crossing who, it a character is a (dare I say it) TRIPLE AGENT? I could not put it down. Really interesting concept in that it basically covers the entirety of the Cold War through the eyes a number of CIA lifers, Soviet spies, and Starik, a (very) bad guy who’s pretty great at trade craft and the principal adversary. Did not know much about the Cold War and this does a great job showing a somewhat alternate history of major events such as the Bay of Pigs, Hungary’s failed revolution, the Russian Putsch attempt etc. Made me spend time searching Wikipedia for more details on the “real history”. Overall quite enjoyable time spent reading this, and I’m a moron so obviously I didn’t see the twist coming #idiotic and I would make an absolutely horrendous spy/counterintelligence officer