false 4590265 9 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 <I>The Tourist</I>, 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. 4639728 3 3 2009 The Tourist total:292|5:54|4:129|3:80|2:23|1:6| 292 1078 672 103 4 3 false false Mon Mar 09 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sun Mar 08 08:34:00 -0700 2009 Tue Mar 10 05:46:53 -0700 2009
I kid. The book is one twisty-ass mofo, and I don't want to spoil it. But I do want to spoil Scott Turow's Presumed Innocent, and just have.

In terms of sheer plotting, this rivals a couple of my favorite spy thrillers -- I kept recalling ...more...]]> 4 1 false false Tue Mar 31 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Mon Mar 30 11:44:09 -0700 2009 Wed Apr 01 11:22:42 -0700 2009 1
All the standard twists and double-crosses one would expect from a ...more...]]> 4 1 false false Sun Feb 08 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Mon Feb 09 20:30:17 -0800 2009 Mon Feb 09 20:52:25 -0800 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Thu Mar 26 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Thu Mar 26 06:16:36 -0700 2009 Thu Mar 26 06:17:24 -0700 2009 more...]]> 5 1 false false Sun Mar 01 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Fri Mar 13 12:24:01 -0700 2009 Fri Mar 13 12:24:33 -0700 2009 more...]]> 3 0 false false Sun Feb 15 12:26:17 -0800 2009 Sun Feb 15 12:26:31 -0800 2009 more...]]> 3 0 false false Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Wed Nov 04 18:36:24 -0800 2009 Wed Nov 04 18:36:44 -0800 2009 more...]]> 0 0 false false Thu Oct 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Mon Oct 26 16:26:01 -0700 2009 Mon Oct 26 16:26:47 -0700 2009
Milo Weaver is “a tourist”, another name for a CIA spy. His name changes with every assignment. But in Venice, while he was known as Charles Alexander, a gunfig...more...]]> 4 0 false false Thu Jun 04 15:38:10 -0700 2009 Thu Jun 04 15:39:05 -0700 2009
The story is about Milo Weaver, a CIA agent who once worked in "black ops," which is to say he worked in an unofficial capacity for The Company ...more...]]> 5 1 false false Wed Jun 24 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sun Jun 21 23:46:46 -0700 2009 Wed Jun 24 22:41:31 -0700 2009 more...]]> 5 0 false false Mon Feb 16 22:32:39 -0800 2009 Thu Feb 26 20:53:07 -0800 2009 Non Stop Intrigue. A True Spy Novel for the 21st Century

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The protagonist, Milo Weaver, is a former Tourist from the CIA. As a tourist, he traveled from country to country learning information, protecting USA interests, eliminating threats, and other cool spy stuff. Si...more...]]> 5 0 false false Thu Feb 05 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Mon Jan 26 20:18:38 -0800 2009 Thu Feb 05 03:48:53 -0800 2009 1 more...]]> 4 0 false false Thu Jun 25 11:36:45 -0700 2009 Thu Jun 25 11:44:25 -0700 2009 more...]]> 3 0 false false Thu Mar 19 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sun Mar 08 17:44:01 -0700 2009 Thu Mar 19 11:14:04 -0700 2009
My suspicion that this book might be too similar to The Spanish Game proved correct, I'm sorry to say. No, the plots aren't the same, just equally comp...more...]]> 4 0 false false Sun Apr 19 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Tue May 05 13:17:30 -0700 2009 Tue May 19 12:34:04 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Mon Mar 16 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Tue Mar 17 13:07:37 -0700 2009 Tue Mar 17 13:13:46 -0700 2009 1 more...]]> 5 0 false false Mon Sep 14 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Fri Sep 11 12:21:35 -0700 2009 Mon Sep 14 09:04:10 -0700 2009 more...]]> 2 2 false false Fri Jun 12 10:46:45 -0700 2009 Fri Jun 12 11:03:58 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Mon Jul 13 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sun Jul 12 04:53:30 -0700 2009 Tue Jul 14 16:16:06 -0700 2009
Update: Finished and enjoyed The Tourist,yesterday. Steinhauer has a way of drawing the reader in so that it is impossible to put the book down. We have to know what happens...how does the protagonist...more...]]> 2 0 false false Sat Aug 15 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Tue Sep 08 11:02:04 -0700 2009 Tue Sep 08 11:07:39 -0700 2009 I liked that it incorporated real-world events of several years ago. By the end I was definitely hooked and managed the whole boo...more...]]>