Legends - Tapa blanda

Now a TNT series starring Sean Bean, from the producers of 24 and Homeland

Martin Odum is a one-time CIA field agent turned private detective in Brooklyn, struggling his way through a labyrinth of memories and past identities- legends” in Agency parlance. But who is Martin Odum? Is he a creation of the Legend Committee at the CIA’s Langley headquarters? Is he suffering from multiple personality disorder, brainwashing, or simply exhaustion? Widely considered one of the true grand masters of American spy fiction, Robert Littell shifts focus from the broad Cold War canvas of his international bestseller The Company to the life of a single CIA operative caught in a contradictory wilderness of mirrors” in which remembering the past and forgetting it are both deadly options.

Robert Littell was born, raised, and educated in New York. A former Newsweek editor specializing in Soviet affairs, he left journalism in 1970 to write fiction full time. 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 eighteen novels, including the New York Times bestsellerThe Company and Legends, the 2005 L.A. Times Book Award for Best Thriller/Mystery.