The Company: A Novel of the CIA is a work of fiction written by American novelist Robert Littell and published by Penguin Press in 2002. The plot interweaves the professional lives of both historical and fictional characters in the field of international espionage between June 1950 and August 1995. The Three Graces, here in a painting by Sandro Botticelli, were the goddesses of charm, beauty, nature, human creativity and fertility in Greek mythology. ... A novel is an extended work of written, narrative, prose fiction, usually in story form; the writer of a novel is a novelist. ... Robert Littell (born January 8, 1935 Brooklyn, New York, USA) is an American author and former Soviet affairs journalist for Newsweek whose work often concerns the CIA. His novel The Amateur was made into a film of the same name in 1981. ... For album titles with the same name, see 2002 (album). ... History is often used as a generic term for information about the past, such as in geologic history of the Earth. When used as the name of a field of study, history refers to the study and interpretation of the record of human societies. ... The Three Graces, here in a painting by Sandro Botticelli, were the goddesses of charm, beauty, nature, human creativity and fertility in Greek mythology. ... Espionage is the practice of obtaining information about an organization or a society that is considered secret or confidential (spying) without the permission of the holder of the information. ... Look up June in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... 1950 (MCML) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will take you to calendar). ... August is the eighth month of the year in the Gregorian Calendar and one of seven Gregorian months with the length of 31 days. ... 1995 (MCMXCV) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

The book was a New York Times bestseller and received wide critical acclaim. The New York Times is an internationally known daily newspaper published in New York City and distributed in the United States and many other nations worldwide. ...