Soho Press

A new edition of the spy classic by Robert Littell, New York Times bestselling master of the espionage thriller.

When a top-secret plan is leaked within CIA headquarters, lead operative Wanamaker has no choice but to “walk back the cat”—find the leak and stop it, at whatever cost.

Meanwhile, operative Silas Sibley—nicknamed “the Weeder” due to his talent for parsing intelligence gathered by experimental computer technology—is at work for the Company when he discovers information no one was ever meant to find. Driven by a personal vendetta and an obsession with his own purported ties to the country’s Revolutionary legacy, the Weeder becomes enmeshed in a plot whose ramifications reach far beyond his usual desk work.

The Once and Future Spy is a surprising, complex spy novel as well as a psychological deep dive into obsession, loyalty, and American history that poses the question: whose truth should be believed?