The Tourist - Softcover

Steinhauer, Olen

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0007296770 ISBN 13: 9780007296774

Publisher: HarperCollins, 2010

Synopsis

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.

About this title

From the Back Cover

A New York Times Notable Book of the Year

"The Tourist should be savored...

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."

―Los Angeles Times

Milo 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.

"[A] TOUR DE FORCE... First-rate popular fiction...The Tourist is SERIOUS ENTERTAINMENT that raises interesting questions."―Washington Post

"The kind of PRINCIPLED HERO we long to believe still exists in fiction, if not in life."

―The New York Times Book Review (Editor's Choice)

"Elaborately engineered... Mr. Steinhauer, the two-time Edgar Award nominee...can be legitimately mentioned alongside of John le Carré."

―Janet Maslin, The New York Times

"UNRELENTING PARANOIA...AN EXCITING RIDE. "

―The Boston Globe

About the Author

OLEN STEINHAUER, the New York Times bestselling author of ten previous novels including The Tourist, is a Dashiell Hammett Award winner, a two-time Edgar award finalist, and has also been shortlisted for the Anthony, the Macavity, the Ellis Peters Historical Dagger, the Ian Fleming Steel Dagger, and the Barry awards. Raised in Virginia, he lives in New York and Budapest, Hungary. Visit OlenSteinhauer.com.

Edition details

• Publisher: HarperCollins
• Publication date: 2010
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0007296770
• ISBN 13: 9780007296774
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 464