Robert Littell's book LEGENDS: A Novel of Dissimulation has made the shortlist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for the mystery/thriller category. Here is a selection of quotes from reviewers on the book, beginning of course with the LA Times:"Though LEGENDS is an entertainment, it offers us unexpected literary pleasures, including a description of the Battle of Fredericksburg in 1862 that rivals the one in Charles Frazier’s Cold Mountain.”
—Los Angeles Times
“[LEGENDS]…does not scant, expertly roaming the continents and offering a psychological puzzle to go with all the deception and violence…"
—John Updike in The New Yorker
“Now and then novels come along of such originality and power that they blow me away…[Littell] has outdone himself with this dizzying, dazzling portrait of a spy who has so many identities—legends, in spook talk—that he no longer knows who he is…If there was any doubt before, this novel makes it blazingly clear that Littell’s is one of the most talented, most original voices in American fiction today, period.”
—The Washington Post
“Happily for those of us who love the intricacy, deceit, subtlety, complexity, and worldliness that the best espionage fiction embraces, Mr. Littell has produced a new thriller…LEGENDS solidifies Mr. Littell’s position among the pantheon of great espionage writers.”
—Otto Penzler, The New York Sun
--John Mark
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