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Walking Back the Cat
- Author
- Robert Littell
- Narrator
- Tom Beyer
- Publisher
- Tantor Media, Inc
- Publish Date
- 7 October 2025
- Run Time
- 8 hours 50 minutes
- Format
- Audiobook
What to expect
Robert Littell has made a name for himself as one of the foremost authors of literary spy thrillers. Here, Littell abandons his usual East European milieu to focus on New Mexico, where a Sovietera KGB agent, code-named Parsifal, has been living under deep cover. Reactivated by a new controller for some particularly brutal "wetwork"—murder—Parsifal's suspicions are aroused. Fearing a double-cross, he begins, in espionage lingo, "walking back the cat"—retracing the operation to find the source of the deception. His manhunt leads him to an Apache-run casino where he crosses paths with CIA operatives, Apaches, and Finn, a disillusioned Gulf War vet with his own investigation to pursue.
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Details
- Author
- Robert Littell
- Narrator
- Tom Beyer
- Duration
- 8 hours 50 minutes
- Release Date
- 7 October 2025
- ISBN
- 9798855565188
- Format
- Audiobook
- Publisher
- Tantor Media, Inc
- Genre
- Espionage and spy thriller, Political / legal thriller, Adventure fiction
Synopsis
A mesmerizing espionage thriller from the bestselling author of The CompanyRobert Littell has made a name for himself as one of the foremost authors of literary spy thrillers. Here, Littell abandons his usual East European milieu to focus on New Mexico, where a Sovietera KGB agent, code-named Parsifal, has been living under deep cover. Reactivated by a new controller for some particularly brutal "wetwork"—murder—Parsifal's suspicions are aroused. Fearing a double-cross, he begins, in espionage lingo, "walking back the cat"—retracing the operation to find the source of the deception. His manhunt leads him to an Apache-run casino where he crosses paths with CIA operatives, Apaches, and Finn, a disillusioned Gulf War vet with his own investigation to pursue.
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