The Tourist has what it takes to become a classic. Olen Steinhauer is a wonderful storyteller who is smart, observant, and witty. George Clooney's company has bought the film rights with the actor slated to star and produce. an absolutely superb contemporary espionage novel in the great tradition of the old masters of the genre. While plenty of breathtaking scenes in the world's most beautiful places bolster the heart-stopping action, the real story is the soul-crushing toil the job inflicts on a person who can't trust anyone, whose life is a lie fueled by paranoia.

The arrest of an international hit man and a meeting with a former colleague yank Milo back into his old role, from which retirement is never really possible. 2009s The Tourist, the first of a four-book series of espionage thrillers, was optioned for film by Warner Bros., with George Clooney slated to star. Six years after leaving that career, Milo has found a certain amount of satisfaction as a husband and a father and with a desk job at the CIA's New York headquarters. Milo Weaver used to be a “tourist,” one of the CIA's special field agents without a home or a name. , etc.) to deliver an outstanding stand-alone, a contemporary spy thriller. 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. Edgar-finalist Steinhauer takes a break from his crime series set in an unnamed Eastern European country under Communist rule ( Liberation Movements Milo Weaver used to be a tourist for the CIAan undercover agent with no home, no identity.

The tourist by olen steinhauer