Edgar award winning novelist Olen Steinhauer has written a terrific novel in "The Tourist". In CIA parlance, a "tourist" is an agency assassin. As Steinhauer portrays it, the CIA has a score or more "tourists" strategically placed around the world . They sit and wait; awaiting instructions as to whom the company has decided next needs to die. The book focuses on one such tourist, Milo Weaver. His time as a tourist has...
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Wow. What a great book. I thought when I started this novel that it would take me a long time to read. Not so... I finished it in 3 days... could not put it down. It is up there with Eye of the Needle and The Tailor of Panama. Great protagonist... he is so intriguing, you just can't help yourself finding out more about him. This is definately the best modern, post 9/11 spy novel I have read... I put it up there with...
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Highly trained special agents called Tourists work out of 4 secret floors on the Ave. of Americas. Tourists are on permanent travel status operating in all populated countries unquestionably carrying out orders whether they are dropping off a package or calling a number with a code word, or exterminating an opponent. Milo, the Tourist in the story finds it harder and harder to cope with the disembodiment of non residency...
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I love a good spy novel and this one paid off in spades. The author has put together an original look at the genre with a great hook and follows it up with great action and thrills. This is the story of CIA agent Milo Weaver aka a "Tourist." A Tourist is a special type of CIA field agent, agents with no name and no place they call home, doing things that can only be performed by such shadowy figures. Things their government...
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