The Visiting Professor Author:Robert Littell 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 Carre and Alan Furst. — Lemuel Falk, "a Russian theoretical chaoticist on the lam f... more »rom 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.« less