Legends, Robert Littell
Legends, Robert Littell
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Legends
A Novel of Dissimulation

Author: Robert Littell

Narrator: Grover Gardner

Unabridged: 13 hr 9 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 03/21/2013

Synopsis

Martin Odum is a CIA field agent turned private detective, struggling his way through a labyrinth of past identities—"legends" in CIA parlance. Is he really Martin Odum? Or is he Dante Pippen, an IRA explosives maven? Or Lincoln Dittmann, Civil War expert? These men like different foods, speak different languages, have different skills. Is he suffering from multiple personality disorder, brainwashing, or simply exhaustion? Can Odum trust the CIA psychiatrist? Or Stella Kastner, a young Russian woman who engages him to find her brother-in-law so he can give her sister a divorce? As Odum redeploys his dormant tradecraft skills to solve Stella's case, he travels the globe battling mortal danger and psychological disorientation.

About Robert Littell

Robert Littell has written over twenty novels, including A Plague on Both Your Houses. A former naval officer and later a Newsweek journalist specializing in the Soviet Union, he also wrote For the Future of Israel (in collaboration with Shimon Peres), The Revolutionist, and Mother Russia. His novel The Amateur was made into a feature film, his novel Legends became a television series, and his New York Times bestselling novel The Company was adapted into a miniseries. He has been awarded the UK’s prestigious Gold Dagger and the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for his fiction. Littell makes his home in France.

About Grover Gardner

Grover Gardner (a.k.a. Tom Parker) is an award-winning narrator with over a thousand titles to his credit. Named one of the “Best Voices of the Century” and a Golden Voice by AudioFile magazine, he has won three prestigious Audie Awards, was chosen Narrator of the Year for 2005 by Publishers Weekly, and has earned more than thirty Earphones Awards.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Lukasz on July 20, 2013

Robert Littell's "Legends" is a pleasantly offbeat spy novel. It aspires to a degree of depth by attempting to investigate psychological effects of assuming different identities for different undercover assignments, but despite the pretentious subtitle "A novel of dissimulation", it does not quite w......more

Goodreads review by Kinga on December 13, 2008

First of all, I didn't read it, I listened to it. I can still hear the voice of the man, as he switched between accents and genders. The author has definitely a handle on details. His story is not drawn in pastels, but rather in pen with all the details clearly visible. It is the details themselves......more

Goodreads review by Evelyn on October 04, 2014

Martin Odum is a former CIA agent with some memory issues and a few former aliases--called legends in agency parlance--that continue to haunt him. Now out of the game and working as a private detective based in Brooklyn he's unable to recall large swathes of his adult life, and most of his childhood......more

Goodreads review by F.R. on July 05, 2010

It’s interesting reading Robert Littell’s ‘Legends’ at this particular moment of time. The world news is full of those Russian spies arrested in the US, while the British papers claimed this weekend there are about 300 Russian spies in this country. (What they’re all doing here, I don’t know. The re......more

Goodreads review by Nico on August 03, 2016

"The Spy who lost his minds" I admit what made me pick up this book it the TNT television series starring Sean Bean.. Surprise, surprise the book is entirely different from the series and the only common denominator seems to be the main characters' name and occupation... That being said I find the boo......more

Quotes

“Robert Littell’s convincing spy story is brimming with great characters.” New York Post

“[Legends] makes it blazingly clear that Littell’s is one of the most talented, most original voices in American fiction today.” Washington Post

“Littell provides plenty of inside intelligence info in his superb new thriller, but he adds a decidedly comic spin…Wonderful writing and a great sense of fun make this another winner.” Publishers Weekly (starred review)

“Littell…delivers a smart, fun, strange adventure in the legendary tradition of Odysseus, yet another wily trickster who boasts to his peril that he is ‘no man.’” Booklist

“An entertaining romp through post–Soviet Russia.” Bookmarks magazine

Awards

  • Los Angeles Times Book Prize
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