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The Tourist - Olen Steinhauer
The Tourist
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Milo Weaver used to be a “tourist” for the CIA—an undercover agent with no home, no identity—but he’s since retired from the field to become a middle-level manager at the CIA’s New York headquarters. He’s acquired a wife, a daughter, and a brownstone in Brooklyn, and he’s tried to leave his old... show more
Milo Weaver used to be a “tourist” for the CIA—an undercover agent with no home, no identity—but he’s since retired from the field to become a middle-level manager at the CIA’s New York headquarters. He’s acquired a wife, a daughter, and a brownstone in Brooklyn, and he’s tried to leave his old life of secrets and lies behind. However, when the arrest of a long-sought-after assassin sets off an investigation into one of Milo’s oldest colleagues and exposes new layers of intrigue in his old cases, he has no choice but to go back undercover and find out who’s holding the strings once and for all.In The Tourist, Olen Steinhauer---twice nominated for an Edgar Award---tackles an intricate story of betrayal and manipulation, loyalty and risk in an utterly compelling novel that is both thoroughly modern and yet also reminiscent of the espionage genre’s luminaries: Len Deighton, Graham Greene, and John LeCarré.
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Format: hardcover
ISBN: 9780312369729 (0312369727)
Publisher: Minotaur Books
Pages no: 416
Edition language: English
Series: The Tourist (#1)
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Momma Says to Read
Momma Says to Read rated it
3.0 Milo Weaver Book 1
It's been quite a while since I've curled up with a spy novel, so maybe I'm out of the loop on the genre, but The Tourist left me somewhere in the fair to midland range. There's a lot of dialogue and the story is repetitive at times, plus there are several things that seem to rely on everyone, inclu...
"So it goes."
"So it goes." rated it
3.0 The Tourist: A Decent Espionage Book, finally
Olen Steinhauer raised my estimation of him tremendously in this book from the last one I read, All the Old Knives. This was an interesting and page-turning adventure with plot twists I didn't see and characters I cared about much more. Milo Weaver is a guy I will happily follow through his series. ...
Misericordia
Misericordia rated it
5.0 The Tourist
Here goes a flowing story line, refreshing coincidences and outright weird heroes... Q: He lifted the desk phone and typed 49, and after a doorman’s military opening gambit—“Yes, sir”—he cut in: “Name.”“Steven Norris, sir.”“Listen carefully, Steven Norris. Are you listening?”“Uh, yes. Sir.”“If you e...
The Book Frog
The Book Frog rated it
3.0 The Tourist
Espionage loves its jargon and its arcane techniques. The CIA is called The Company, by those who know. Spies practice tradecraft, which encompasses everything from how to designate, mark, and carry out a drop off to how properly to evade surveillance to how to communicate in code so that correct ...
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4.0 The Tourist
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