The Visiting Professor: A Novel

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A delicious post -cold war romp The Visiting Professor is another classic page-tuner for the many fans that have come to recognize Robert Littell-thanks to The Company and its recent TNT miniseries-as a thriller writer on par with John le Carr and Alan Furst. 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.