Walking Back the Cat [Paperback]

Robert Littell (Author)

Product Details

• Paperback
• Publisher: Overlook (May 1, 1997)
• ASIN: B000XS3WL8
• Average Customer Review: 3.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (8 customer reviews)

More About the Author

Bestselling author Robert Littell has been ranked amongst John Le Carre and Graham Greene for his masterful spy fiction. A Newsweek journalist in a previous incarnation, Littell has been writing about the Soviet Union and Russians since his first novel, the espionage classic The Defection of A.J.Lewinter. Among his numerous critically acclaimed novels are The October Circle, Mother Russia, The Debriefing, The Sisters, The Revolutionist, The Once and Future Spy, An Agent in Place, The Visiting Professor, the New York Times bestselling The Company (adapted for a TNT mini-series), and Legends (winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Award for Best Thriller of 2005) and For the Future of Israel, a book of conversations with Shimon Peres. Littell is an American who makes his home in France.

Customer Reviews

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8 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars good plus easy to read, June 7, 2000

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Joe G. Steinbrunner "joegstein" (Ohio) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Walking Back the Cat (Hardcover)

I enjoyed this book and found it very easy to read finishing it in one long day. I particularily liked the character development of the Soviet killer Parsifal and would have enjoyed a whole book or at least a few more chapters about him getting to be what he was. The Indian stories and their gambling was tied in and fit in the story well.

9 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Robert Littell continues to produce great spy stories., January 11, 1998

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archer (Arlington, VA USA) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: Walking Back the Cat (Hardcover)

Robert Littell doesn't seem to get the recognition he deserves. Every time I read one of his novels I am pleasantly suprised. Walking Back the Cat is a great read, with great character development.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Not his best..., December 3, 2007

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U2pop "u2pop" (Atlanta) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: Walking Back the Cat (Hardcover)

Walking Back the Cat seeemd interesting at first, especially with the catchy spy-like codenames and something set in seemingly present-day America, but through it all it was desparately missing something. That something was the magic of spy novels, the twists and turns that leave you guessing and the surprises and calamity that make you laugh outloud. Whereas "The Company", "The Defection of A.J. Lewinter" or "The Debriefing" dealth with the gritty, crafty, and seemingly endless abyss of mystery of the bygone days of espionage, Walking Back the Cat just bored the heck out of me from one page to the next. It starts out like a spy novel with a myserious meeting in a public library, but then it goes off on a giant tagent througha an Indian reservation and doesn't come back to the actual spy part until 3/4 of the way through; easy to see why you could lose interest.