The Visiting Professor

From legendary espionage writer Robert Littell, bestselling author of The Company and The Amateur, a character-driven post-Cold War romp following an ex-Soviet professor turned amateur detective who finds himself in upstate New York investigating the mysterious and sudden death of a colleague.

Lemuel Falk, a theoretical “chaoticist,” has been denied permission to leave Russia for the last twenty-three years—likely because he knows a few state secrets. He is shocked when his twenty-fourth req...