Walking Back the Cat - Hardcover

Littell, Robert

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0879517646 ISBN 13: 9780879517649

Publisher: The Overlook Press, 1997

Synopsis

When a Soviet-era KGB agent who has been living quietly in the United States, Parsifal is given orders to assassinate someone working in an Apache-run casino, Finn, a disillusioned Gulf War vet, is drawn into the plot.

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Review:

The New York Times has called Robert Littell "the American Le Carre," and his terrific new thriller shows why. A KGB contract killer nicknamed Parsifal, living in New Mexico as a dealer in rare guns, is suddenly called back into action by his old controller and ordered to remove a Russian defector and several leaders of the Apache tribe who run a gambling casino. Parsifal links up with a burned-out Gulf War vet named Finn to find out why--after years of inactivity--the KGB has turned itself back into an oddly motivated killing machine. The results are well up to Littell's high standards of intelligence and excitement.

About the Author:

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.

About this edition

• Publisher: The Overlook Press
• Publication date: 1997
• ISBN 10: 0879517646
• ISBN 13: 9780879517649
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 224