Robert Littell Books in Order

This alternate-history novel imagines the 1967 Arab-Israeli war ending in Israeli defeat. Instead of a victory narrative, it follows the military collapse and political shock waves that would reshape the Middle East and far beyond.

In this picture book, Ryan has to teach a circus lion the difference between left and right to keep his job. It is a simple, playful setup that helps young readers learn along with Lion.

A.J. Lewinter, an American missile scientist, walks into the Russian Embassy in Tokyo and offers to defect. Both Washington and Moscow scramble to decide whether he is a priceless source, a fraud, or the most dangerous kind of wild card.

Set aboard a worn-out destroyer off Southeast Asia, this darkly comic novel turns military routine into farce. As career officers posture and the crew drifts toward mutiny and peace talk, Littell pokes hard at the absurdity of war.

After the Soviet invasion of Prague, seven disillusioned Bulgarian intellectuals and one American drifter plan a risky act of protest. What starts as private despair becomes a test of friendship, courage, and the price of resisting a closed state.

Black market hustler Robespierre Pravdin wants only to stay alive in paranoid Moscow. Then an enigmatic woman known as Mother Russia pulls him into a dangerous search for proof that a national literary hero built his fame on fraud.

When Soviet courier Oleg Kulakov defects with a sealed diplomatic pouch locked to his wrist, American expert Stone is assigned to question him. The closer Stone looks, the less simple the defection seems, and the deeper the trap becomes.

Charlie Heller is a brilliant CIA cryptographer, not a field man, until terrorists murder his fiancee and the agency refuses to act. Driven by grief and anger, he crosses into enemy territory to hunt the killers himself.

Legendary CIA operatives Francis and Carroll, once feared as the Sisters Death and Night, devise one last audacious plot. To change the balance of the Cold War, they manipulate an old KGB assassin and set off a chain of double-crosses.

Alexander Til comes of age inside the Russian Revolution, chasing ideals through hope, violence, and betrayal. His story carries the reader from the storming of the Winter Palace to the gulag, showing what happens when history devours its believers.

A secret CIA counterintelligence scheme springs a leak, and veteran operator Roger Wanamaker races to contain the damage. Meanwhile analyst Silas Sibley uncovers more than he should, turning a bureau puzzle into a moral test.

Ben Bassett arrives in Moscow as a minor embassy housekeeper, only to be drawn into a last-round Cold War game. His bond with poet Aida Zavaskaya turns personal danger into something deeper, and far harder to escape.

After twenty-three years of being refused permission to leave Russia, chaoticist Lemuel Falk finally reaches upstate New York as a visiting professor. A mysterious death, campus rivalries, and hungry intelligence services quickly make his new freedom feel dangerous.

A long-dormant KGB assassin receives new orders in the American Southwest, while a disillusioned Gulf War veteran is pulled into the same web. Their collision turns into a lean thriller about old loyalties, new corruption, and buried motives.

In a series of conversations with Robert Littell, Shimon Peres reflects on his early life, Jewish identity, war, peace, and Israel's future. It is part memoir, part political meditation, and strongest when Peres thinks aloud about hard choices.

Spanning the Cold War from Berlin to Moscow to Afghanistan, this sprawling novel follows generations of CIA officers and the hunt for a mole. It is big, intricate spy fiction with tradecraft, betrayals, and history moving in the background.

Martin Odum, a former CIA field agent turned Brooklyn private investigator, is hired to find a missing husband. But the case keeps dragging him back into his own false identities, until the real mystery becomes who Martin Odum actually is.

A hoped-for Middle East peace deal shatters when a famous rabbi is taken hostage by a legendary Palestinian militant. As captor and captive form an unsettling bond, Littell explores violence, faith, and the trap of endless retaliation.

When poet Osip Mandelstam dares to recite a scathing epigram about Stalin, he puts his life in danger. Littell turns that act of defiance into a tense, human story about art, fear, and survival in the Soviet 1930s.

Robert Littell imagines Kim Philby's early years through the voices of friends, lovers, handlers, and rivals. The result is a sly portrait of a future double agent whose charm, ambition, and shifting loyalties keep everyone guessing.

When a bail jumper vanishes after putting up a forged deed, New Mexico PI Lemuel Gunn takes what looks like a routine case. It quickly tangles him with mob trouble, hidden motives, and a woman who may know more than she says.

Four former muses reunite in a Moscow hotel to remember Vladimir Mayakovsky, Soviet Russia's sainted poet. Their gossip, grudges, and competing memories reveal a brilliant, volatile man trapped between desire, art, and a revolution gone wrong.

In 1953, four women gather in Moscow to talk about the poet Vladimir Mayakovsky, each certain she knew the real man. Their clashing memories turn into a sharp, intimate portrait of love, art, revolution, and betrayal.

After his father dies and his mother is swept up in Stalin's anti-Jewish purge, young Leon Rozental hides in Moscow's House on the Embankment. There he meets a mysterious old official with uncanny access to Stalin, and innocence collides with terror.

As the Soviet Union falls apart in 1991, Moscow's rival crime clans rush to fill the vacuum. At the center are Yulia and Roman, the children of opposing mafia bosses, trying to hold onto love in a city sliding toward war.

Before he became Leon Trotsky to the world, Lev Bronshtein spent ten strange weeks in New York in 1917. Littell imagines that Bronx interlude as a witty, restless study of revolution, family, ambition, and conscience.