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The Once and Future Spy: A Novel Audiobook
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In this espionage classic by the New York Times bestselling author of The Company, two CIA operatives—one with something to hide, the other with something to prove—face off when a top-secret scheme is exposed.
The most elite levels of the CIA's Counterintelligence unit are on the verge of pulling off an operation so huge it will change global politics—and so secret that it has no paper trail. But the operation's organizer, Roger Wanamaker, has evidence that the plan has sprung a leak. Now it is a deadly race against time to "walk back the cat"—isolate the leak and plug it—before the scheme is exposed and an international conflict is ignited.
Meanwhile analyst Silas Sibley—nicknamed "The Weeder" due to his talent for parsing intelligence with experimental computer technology—has uncovered information no one was ever meant to find. Now he has to decide what to do with it: expose the unfolding atrocity, even if it means cutting the knees out from the intelligence agency he works for and has, up until now, believed in? Or is there some other solution? Clinging fiercely to the legacy of his ancestor American Revolutionary war hero Nathan Hale, the Weeder takes matters into his own hands. Surprising and complex, this psychological deep dive into obsession, loyalty, and history, poses the question: Whose truth should be believed?
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"A very good spy novel written in 1990 that works in an uncanny way in 2010. I like the author's use of the revolutionary past to parallel the present. "
— Mike (4 out of 5 stars)
The Once and Future Spy Listener Reviews
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" Watch the language. It's a little hard. It ended up being an interesting story. It took me a little bit to really get into it, but otherwise interesting. Bit of a twist at the end. "
— Brenda, 7/23/2010 -
" Going through my spy reading tendencies...fun. Not my favorite of Littell's though. "
— Chi, 6/4/2010 -
" I Am The Cheese meets John Le Carre "
— Chip, 1/15/2010 -
" Great book about a man on the edge of madness. "
— Chris, 11/4/2008 -
" What may have taken place during Nathan Hale's doomed spy mission. "
— Linda, 9/23/2008 -
" I think Littell fancies himself a John le Carre', which he is not. The characters are cartoonish and the settings sparse. His plot is interesting, and in this book, his description of Nathan Hale's spy mission during the revolution was better than the campish main narrative. "
— Grandpa, 5/12/2008 -
" Good for the genre...dual story line to change up the pace "
— Gena, 1/28/2008
About Robert Littell
Robert Littell has been writing about the Soviet Union and Russians since his first novel, the espionage classic The Defection of A. J. Lewinter. He is the author of eighteen novels, including the critically acclaimed The Debriefing, The Sisters, The Once and Future Spy, and the New York Times bestsellers The Company and Legends. A former Newsweek editor specializing in Soviet Affairs, he left journalism in 1970 to write fiction full time. He was born, raised, and educated in New York.
About Johnny Heller
Johnny Heller, winner of numerous Earphones and Audie Awards, was named a “Golden Voice” by AudioFile magazine in 2019. He has been a Publishers Weekly Listen-Up Award winner from 2008 through 2013 and he has been named a top voice of 2008 and 2009 and selected as one of the Top 50 Narrators of the Twentieth Century by AudioFile magazine.