The defection of A. J. Lewinter [Littell, Robert] on www.doorway.ru *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. The defection of A. J. Lewinter/5(36). · The Defection of A.J. Lewinter, by Robert Littell is a masterful tour de force of espionage fiction. Although there are some weaknesses of style during the beginning chapters -- bland figurative language, stilted dialog, dry narration, and sometime un-useful insertion of epistolary exposition - the style improves gradually reaching excellence when the character, Zaitsev, the chess grand master, appears/5. A.J. LeWinter is an American scientist, for years an insignificant cog in America’s complex defense machinery. While at an academic conference in Tokyo, LeWinter contacts the KGB station chief and says he wants to defect. He tantalizes the Russians with U.S. military secrets he claims to possess, but is his defection genuine?/5(26).
Title: The Defection of A. J. Lewinter: A Novel of Duplicity. Author (s): Robert Littell. ISBN: / (USA edition) Publisher: The Overlook Press. Availability: Amazon Amazon UK Amazon CA Amazon AU. A brillant farce on one level, a superb commentary on the ascent of absurdity in the intelligence community of the s on another level, Littell's THE DEFECTION OF A.J. LEWINTER combines that rare package this side of Grahame Greene of being both fun to read and enlightening. Buy The Defection of A. J. Lewinter (Duplicity) Reprint by Littell, Robert (ISBN: ) from Amazon's Book Store. Everyday low prices and free delivery on eligible orders.
A.J. LeWinter is an American scientist, for years an insignificant cog in America’s complex defense machinery. While at an academic conference in Tokyo, LeWinter contacts the KGB station chief and says he wants to defect. He tantalizes the Russians with U.S. military secrets he claims to possess, but is his defection genuine?. Before there was The Company, Robert Littell made a name for himself with The Defection of A.J. Lewinter. Lewinter is an American scientist, for years an insignificant cog in America's complex defense machinery. While at an academic conference in Tokyo, Lewinter contacts the KGB station chief and says he wants to defect. Set in the early s, the spy thriller-cum-black comedy begins when A.J. Lewinter, an eccentric American engineer specializing in nose cones for ballistic missiles, decides to defect to the Soviet Union. Such a high-level defection is unprecedented, and each side suspects the other of something fishy.
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