The Company (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
At a glance:
- Author: Robert Littell
- First Published: 2002
- Type of Work: Novel
- Time of Work: 1950-1995
- Setting: Washington, D.C., Germany, Hungary, Cuba, Afghanistan, and the Soviet Union
- Principal Characters: Harvey Torriti, Jack McAuliffe, E. Winstrom Ebbitt II, Leo Kritzky, Yevgeny Aleksandrovich Tsipin, Pavel Semyonovich Zhilov
- Genres: Long fiction, Spy fiction
- Subjects: 1950’s, Ideology, 1960’s, 1970’s, United States or Americans, Politics, Revolutionaries, Twentieth century, 1980’s, Cuba or Cubans, Espionage or spies, 1990’s, Germany or German people, Treason, Soviet Union or Soviets, Intelligence service, Hungary or Hungarians
- Locales: Soviet Union, Washington, D.C., Cuba, Germany, Hungary, Afghanistan
Espionage is probably as old as civilization itself. Fictional accounts of the subject have intrigued readers at least since the early nineteenth century, when James Fenimore Cooper’s novel The Spy (1821) gained its author a loyal following and a lucrative income. In more recent times, renewed interest in the genre came about as a result of tensions between the United States and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (U.S.S.R.) following World War II. From 1945 until the fall of the Soviet empire in 1991, the world’s two reigning superpowers grappled with a persistent...
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