by Robert Littell · Editions Baker Street · tapa blanda · ISBN 9782917559192
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«Philby: Portrait de l'espion en jeune homme» is the spy novel by Robert Littell, published by Baker Street in paperback (325 pages, in French).
In 1933, a young Englishman from Cambridge settles in Vienna, fights against fascism and marries Litzi Friedman. Recruited on his return to London by the Soviet services, he later covers the Spanish Civil War as a journalist. The novel recreates the beginnings of Kim Philby, one of the «Cambridge Five», and his ambiguity between communism and fascism.
The translation is by Cécile Arnaud; the English original, «Young Philby», was published in 2011.
For those who enjoy spy novels and historical intrigue and with real 20th-century figures.
Robert Littell is an American novelist and former journalist who resides in France. He specialises in spy novels that often concern the CIA and the Soviet Union.
