A spy thriller classic, soon to be a major motion picture starring Rami Malek, Rachel Brosnahan, Caitriona Balfe, and Laurence Fishburne Before Robert Littell vaulted onto the bestseller lists with his New York Times bestselling CIA novel The Company, The Amateur established him as a contemporary master of the espionage thriller. Charlie Heller is an ace cryptographer for the CIA, a quiet man in a quiet back-office job. But when his fianc