Robert Littell (born January 8, 1935) is an American novelist and former journalist who resides in France.
[1] He specialises in spy novels that often concern the CIA and the Soviet Union.
Later Littell became a journalist and worked many years for Newsweek during the Cold War.
His brother, Alan Littell (born 1929), is also an author and journalist.
He is the brother-in-law of the French writer Bernard du Boucheron.