The Visiting Professor Paperback - 2009
by Littell, Robert
A delicious post -cold war romp, The VisitingProfessor is another classic page-tuner for the many fans that havecome to recognize Robert Littell-thanks to The Company and itsrecent TNT miniseries-as a thriller writer on par with John le Carréand Alan Furst.
Lemuel Falk, "a Russian theoretical chaoticist on the lam fromterrestrial chaos," has applied for permission to leave Russia everyyear for the past twenty-three years. Unexpectedly, his twenty-fourthrequest is approved and he accepts a chair as visiting professor atthe Institute for Advanced Interdisciplinary Chaos-Related Studies inupstate New York. As soon as he arrives, he is plunged into anotherkind of chaos-an academic catfight, an affair with a much-youngerhairdresser, and a dangerous serial killer.
Summary
Lemuel Falk, "a Russian theoretical chaoticist on the lam from terrestrial chaos," has applied for permission to leave Russia every year for the past twenty-three years. Unexpectedly, his twenty-fourth request is approved and he accepts a chair as visiting professor at the Institute for Advanced Interdisciplinary Chaos-Related Studies in upstate New York. As soon as he arrives, he is plunged into another kind of chaos-an academic catfight, an affair with a much-younger hairdresser, and a dangerous serial killer.
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- Title The Visiting Professor
- Author Littell, Robert
- Binding Paperback
- Edition Reprint
- Pages 226
- Language EN
- Publisher Penguin Books
- Date 2009-07-28
- ISBN 9780143115533
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