Comrade Koba: A Novel

Robert Littel, a former Newsweek journalist, has been writing about the Soviet Union and the Russians since his first work of fiction, the espionage classic The Aggressive Pawn. Among his numerous critically acclaimed novels are The October Circle, Mother Russia, The Debriefing, The Sisters, The Revolutionist, An Agent in Place, The Visiting Professor, the New York Times bestseller The Company (adapted into a miniseries), and The Incredible and Sad Story of the Spy with No Name (winner of the Los Angeles Times Literary Award for Best Thriller of 2005). Littel is American and lives in France.