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Improbable Plot--Still A Fine Read
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Robert Littell continues to produce great spy stories.

Walking Back the Cat
Robert Littell
Manufacturer: Faber and Faber
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 0571179347

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The New York Times has called Robert Littell "the American Le Carre," and his terrific new thriller shows why. A KGB contract killer nicknamed Parsifal, living in New Mexico as a dealer in rare guns, is suddenly called back into action by his old controller and ordered to remove a Russian defector and several leaders of the Apache tribe who run a gambling casino. Parsifal links up with a burned-out Gulf War vet named Finn to find out why--after years of inactivity--the KGB has turned itself back into an oddly motivated killing machine. The results are well up to Littell's high standards of intelligence and excitement.

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Improbable Plot--Still A Fine Read.......2007-06-24

A veteran of the Gulf War (Finn) finds himself with legal problems in Seattle. He flies off in a gondola to escape the deputy sheriff. He ends up landing in an Apache reservation in New Mexico. He makes friends with the Apaches and discovers that their casino is being extorted. Trying to get help to put an end to the thievery he approaches the local newspaper publisher who unknown to Finn is involved in the conspiracy. He is betrayed and a meeting is set up for him to meet and FBI agent. There is no FBI agent. Enter Parsifal, KGB agent living under deep cover. Parsifal is an interesting character. Brilliant, deadly and with an extreme sense of smell.Parsifal was ready to terminate Finn when some things about the mission don't seem right to him. After much talk they decide to collobarate and get to the bottom of things. It turns out that some former CIA officers had set up an operation to continue the cold war with the funds from the casino. They got a high level KGB defector who gave them all the operative information. So, they were in fact controlling the KGB's top assassin (Parsifal) in the U.S. Plenty of excitement and a quick read at 218 pages.

Curious Book.......2006-12-18

Littell is an uneven author, in my opinion. His "The Company" was one of the best spy books I ever read. His other works, however, are frustratingly mediocre. This is no exception. He introduces a wonderful character -- Parsifal-- about whom I hope to read in future Littell books. He also introduces Finn, a strange guy whose character never really gets developed in this book. As for the story, I found it highly improbable and I found the ending unsatisfying. The book was set on an Apache reservation in New Mexico and portions of that aspect were interesting, but again, not fully developed. Every time I pick up a Littell novel I'm hopeful, but with the exception of "The Company" I'm always disappointed.

good plus easy to read.......2000-06-07

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.

Disappointing.......1998-09-21

I seldomly fail to complete a novel of intrigue. I tried to remain patient hoping that something would develop that captured my imagination but nothing did. I put the book back on the bookshelf without completing it.

Robert Littell continues to produce great spy stories........1998-01-12

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.

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Walking Back the Cat
Rafael Fermoselle
Manufacturer: Trafford Publishing
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

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Cuba has been at the center of considerable intrigue since the arrival of the first European explorers in the 16th century. The people of the island have endured military conquest, foreign intervention in its internal affairs; dictatorships supported by one foreign power or another and unparallel suffering through several generations. Somehow, the people have withstood the test of time and continue to hope for a better future. There is an incredible amount of brutality in the world and Fidel Castro's dictatorship has generated a large share of the brutality. A lot of it has targeted the United States and its people. That's where our spies come in to provide sufficient warning before evil strikes. They help preserve the integrity of the United States against evil dictators like Castro. Despite of the work of our intelligence agencies Castro and his henchmen got a way with a lot, including the torture of American POWs in Vietnam. An unexpected opportunity developed to settle an old score. A historical novel is neither strictly historical news nor strictly fictional in character. History is a chronological and systematic account of the past. It is defined as the totality of human experience. A novel, on the other hand, is a fictitious tale inspired by actual events, dealing with the adventures of imaginary people and depicting the different varieties of the human character. Some events and characters depicted have been taken from real life others are entirely fictional.

Walking Back the Cat: Poems (Bright Hill Press at Hand Poetry Chapbook Series, No. 12)

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Walking Back the Cat: Poems (Bright Hill Press at Hand Poetry Chapbook Series, No. 12)
Lynn Pattison
Manufacturer: Bright Hill Press
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 1892471264

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Praise for WALKING BACK THE CAT.......2006-04-18

"The poems in Walking Back the Cat surrender nothing by splintering into tiny, rough symphonies each somehow both raw and polished. In this small book, poem after poem feels nailed down, only because the act of reading them is an elevation. They fly--woodwinds and electric guitar. The poems are stylistically various, and multiply 'landscaped,' but they immediately breach the white frames of the pages that separate them. Thre is energy enough here to cover it all, from Singapore to the Yucatan. And there is something magical and yet oracular about this reckless stance--a refusal to organize the garden politely. The voice, the biggest constant, holds everything together, urgent and in love with every fiber of experience inward and outward. The collection can be described by one of Pattison's own sentences, 'A map/...to study, curling, tacked abouve breakfast/ on the wall during the long river winters.'" --David Dodd Lee, author of ABRUPT, RURAL

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Walking Back the Cat
Robert Littell
Manufacturer: FABER & FABER
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000GWOGWA

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Walking Back the Cat
Robert LITTELL
Manufacturer: SOLD
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000OOZVHO

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