The Tourist
THE TOURISTOLEN STEINHAUERMilo Weaver has tried to leave his old life of secrets and lies behind by giving up his job as a “tourist” for the CIA—an undercover agent with no home, no identity. Now he’s working a desk at the agency’s New York headquarters. But when the arrest of a long-sought-after...
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THE TOURISTOLEN STEINHAUERMilo Weaver has tried to leave his old life of secrets and lies behind by giving up his job as a “tourist” for the CIA—an undercover agent with no home, no identity. Now he’s working a desk at the agency’s New York headquarters. But when the arrest of a long-sought-after assassin sets off an investigation into a colleague, exposing new layers of intrigue in his old cases, he has no choice but to go back undercover and find out who’s been behind it allfrom the very beginning.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9781250018410 (1250018412)
Publish date: August 28th 2012
Publisher: Minotaur Books
Pages no: 576
Edition language: English
Series: The Tourist (#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...
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. ...
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...
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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