Books by Olen Steinhauer
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review 1: Not a favorite. This is the first book I've read by this author, and I'm not sure I'll read any more by him. Almost none of the characters were the least bit likable, and by the end of the book, I was rooting for him to kill off one more of the main characters. I'm relatively wel...
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review 1: I found it a bit slow. I felt like nothing much happened. It was interviews with people, extracting information but no real action. I kept putting it down. I felt it only became a page turner at the end when the twists and turns unravelled. I came away feeling like the wind had b...
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review 1: It took me a year and a half after reading The Tourist to get to this book, a follow up of sorts, but you don't have to read The Tourist to read this. The tourists are a secret CIA group and the story is full of spying, espionage, and all that goes with it. It got a bit complicat...
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review 1: The third in the Tourist trilogy (The Tourist, The Nearest Exit) which feature Milo Weaver, a CIA spy in an ultra-secret section. I found this is the weakest book - this time, too much time is spent on a complicated plot involving the Chinese and US machinations as well. Ultima...
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review 1: This is the third book in the Milo Weaver series. I didn’t enjoy it quite as much as the first two. It was a little harder to follow. The story switched back and forth in time and from the point of view of different characters. But Steinhauer is a great contemporary espionage...