The Barnes and Nobel Review of the book: Littell's 13th novel, The Company, is clearly his magnum opus: a huge, multigenerational saga that encompasses the complete 40-year history of the bitterly contested Cold War. The novel begins in late 1950 in the emblematic center of that war: Berlin. CIA station chief Harvey Torrita (a.k.a. the Sorcerer) and his newly arrived assistant, Jack McAuliffe (known, naturally, as the Sorcerer's Apprentice), are attempting to organize the exfiltration of a KGB defector who possesses some dangerous secrets. The most vital of these concerns the possible existence of a Soviet agent -- a mole...