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Also by Robert Littell:

The Amateur, March 2025
Trade Paperback / e-Book
Bronshtein in the Bronx, February 2025
Hardcover / e-Book
A Plague on Both Your Houses, February 2024
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A Plague on Both Your Houses, February 2024
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A Nasty Piece Of Work, November 2013
Hardcover / e-Book
The Stalin Epigram: A Novel, May 2009
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A Nasty Piece Of Work
Robert Littell

Thomas Dunne
November 2013
On Sale: November 19, 2013
272 pages
ISBN: 1250021456
EAN: 9781250021458
Kindle: B00DA79VJQ
Hardcover / e-Book
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Suspense | Thriller

Former CIA agent Lemuel Gunn left the battlefield of Afghanistan for early retirement in the desert of New Mexico, where he works as a private investigator from the creature comforts, such as they are, of a mobile home.

Into his life comes Ornella Neppi, a thirty-something woman making a hash out of her uncle’s bail bonds business. The source of her troubles, Emilio Gava, was arrested for buying cocaine. Ornella has reason to believe he is planning to jump bail. Unless she can find him, her uncle is going to be $125,000 out of pocket.

For $95-a-day plus expenses (not to mention the pleasure of her company), Gunn agrees to help Ornella track the wayward suspect down. Curiously, no photographs of Gava seem to exist. Once Gunn begins his manhunt, he starts to wonder whether Gava himself existed in the first place.
            Robert Littell has been widely praised as one of the best espionage writers of our time. Now, he’s turned his formidable skills toward crime fiction in A Nasty Piece of Work, a novel that Le Monde has already praised as “one of those page-turning detective tales that feels like an instant classic.… A Chandleresque noir novel, as delightful as it is suspenseful."

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