Robert Littell is a master storyteller of the highest caliber in the ranks of John le Carr, Len Deighton, and Graham Greene. "The Once and Future Spy" is a tale of espionage and counterespionage that reveals the dirty tricks and dangerous secrets of the subjects Littell knows bestthe CIA and American history. When the Weeder, an operative at work on a highly sensitive project for the Company, encounters an elite group of specialists within the innermost core of the CIA protecting a clandestine plan, the present confronts the past and disturbing moral choices are weighed against a shining patriotic dream. Inventive, imaginative, and relentlessly gripping, "The Once and Future Spy" is Robert Littell at his most original.