![]() ![]() ![]() Tour de force … scathing … first-rate popular fiction … Steinhauer seems to know the world of spies and assassins all too well…. The Tourist … raises a lot of questions, but only answers enough to keep the story moving briskly and the reader’s curiosity stoked through to the end. As rich and intriguing as the best of Le Carré, Deighton or Graham Greene, Steinhauer’s complex, moving spy novel is perfect for our uncertain, emotionally fraught times. Janet Maslin, The New York TimesĪlthough readers can hope to see it on the screen, “The Tourist” should be savored now. If he’s as smart as “The Tourist” makes him sound, he’ll bring back Milo Weaver for a curtain call. le Carré’s characters like to call tradecraft. Steinhauer, the two-time Edgar Award nominee who can be legitimately mentioned alongside John le Carré, he displays a high degree of what Mr. 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.īut 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. ![]() 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. ![]()
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