The english translation for the style of novel of which The Company is an example is novel with a key.
The Company is a political fiction "roman  clef" novel written by John Ehrlichman, a former close aide to President Richard Nixon and a figure in the Watergate scandal, first published in 1976 by Simon & Schuster. 
Roman  clef (] , ), French for "novel with a key", is a novel about real life, overlaid with a faade of fiction. 
