The Tourist

(Paperback)

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Superb new CIA thriller featuring black ops expert Milo Weaver and acclaimed by Lee Child as first class the kind of thing John le Carre might have written.
In today's CIA, there are hotspots everywhere. And wherever there's trouble, there's a Tourist: the men and women who do the CIA's dirty work. They're the Company's best and until he burnt out, Milo Weaver was the best of them all.

Milo has spent the last four years behind a desk, tracking the elusive killer known as 'The Tiger'. When the Tiger unexpectedly gives himself up, it's because he wants something in return: revenge.

Once a Tourist, always a Tourist and soon Milo is back in the field, a world of betrayal, skewed politics and extreme violence. It's a world he knows well but he's still about to learn the toughest lesson of all.

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Praise for The Tourist:

'A spy novel for our times fascinating and exciting' Literary Review

A first class spy novel wry, intelligent, layered the kind of thing John le Carre might have written if he knew then what we know now Lee Child

Relentless action andmemorable characters agripping and hugely entertaining read Mark Mills (author of The Savage Garden)

Smart excels when the focus is on Weaver, an intriguing, damaged man yearning to break free of his dark profession People

'Utterly credibleSteinhauer, the two-time Edgar Award nominee who can be legitimately mentioned alongside John le Carr, displays a high degree of what Mr. le Carr's characters like to call tradecraft. If he's as smart as "The Tourist" makes him sound, he'll bring back Milo Weaver for a curtain call' New York Times

[A] scathing portrait of the CIA Steinhauer seems to know the world of spies and assassins all too well it feels real The Tourist is serious entertainment that raises interesting questions Washington Post

"The Tourist" should be savored As rich and intriguing as the best of Le Carr, Deighton or Graham Greene, Steinhauer's complex, moving spy novel is perfect for our uncertain, emotionally fraught times LA Times

'Intelligent, evocative, and nuanced Seattle Times

Remember John Le Carre when he was good Thats how Olen Steinhauer writes Time

Compelling and hard to put down. [Steinhauer is] superbly accomplished at both plotting and characterization Library Journal

Outstanding heart-stopping action Publishers Weekly

Author Bio

OLEN STEINHAUER was born in Virginia and grew up in Texas where he attended the state University in Austin. He was inspired to write his Eastern European series while on a Fullbright Fellowship in Romania to write about the 1989 revolution. He moved to New York to sell his book and began the second while in Florence. It was in Budapest, Hungary, that he finished it and still resides. His first two novels, The Bridge of Sighs and The Confession, have garnered thus far an Edgar nomination, an Anthony nomination, a Macavity nomination, a Historical Dagger nomination and rave reviews. 'The Vienna Assignment' was his first novel published with HarperCollins and received excellent hardback reviews in the Guardian and Daily Telegraph.