They Call Me Alexandra Gastone by T.A. Maclagan

) A Coffin for Dimitrios by Eric AmblerĪ chance encounter with a Turkish colonel leads Charles Latimer, the author of a handful of successful mysteries, into a world of sinister political and criminal maneuvers. But when events start to spin out of control, Harry is suddenly in over his head-thrown into a lethal maze of politics and espionage, with unthinkable consequences.ġ5.

Deceiving his friends, his wife, and practically himself, he’ll weave a plot so fabulous it exceeds his own vivid imagination. What his “handlers” don’t realize is that Harry has a hidden agenda of his own. The perfect spy in a country rife with corruption and revolution. He is Harry Pendel: Exclusive tailor to Panama’s most powerful men. A brilliant, stunningly conceived epic thriller, The Company confirms Littell’s place among the genre’s elite.ġ6. Racing across a landscape spanning the legendary Berlin Base of the ’50s, the Soviet invasion of Hungary, the Bay of Pigs, Afghanistan, and the Gorbachev putsch, The Company tells the thrilling story of agents imprisoned in double lives, fighting an amoral, elusive, formidable enemy-and each other-in an internecine battle within the Company itself. This critically acclaimed blockbuster from internationally renowned novelist Robert Littell seamlessly weaves together history and fiction to create a multigenerational, wickedly nostalgic saga of the CIA-known as “the Company” to insiders.

His aim, as he moves chameleon-like through the two cultures, is to reconcile these opposing strands, while the lama searches for redemption from the Wheel of Life.

While he wants to play the Great Game of Imperialism, he is also spiritually bound to the lama. Born in India, Kim is nevertheless white, a sahib. Two men – a boy who grows into early manhood and an old ascetic priest, the lama – are at the center of the novel. Kim is set in an imperialistic world a world strikingly masculine, dominated by travel, trade and adventure, a world in which there is no question of the division between white and non-white.

They Call Me Alexandra Gastone by T.A. Maclagan