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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. 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. However, 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.

In The Tourist, Olen Steinhauer---twice nominated for an Edgar Award---tackles an intricate story of betrayal and manipulation, loyalty and risk in an utterly compelling novel that is both thoroughly modern and yet also reminiscent of the espionage genre’s luminaries: Len Deighton, Graham Greene, and John LeCarré.

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`Compelling and hard to put down. ...[Steinhauer is] superbly accomplished at both plotting and characterization'
From the Author:
What drew you to the spy thriller?
John le Carré. It wasn’t until I picked up The Spy Who Came In from the Cold that it became clear how much spy fiction can encompass all the social commentary, realism, philosophy and fine writing of literature, yet maintain the vigorous pacing that hooks an audience.

What's the biggest challenge for you in writing a spy thriller? Plausibility. There’s the plausibility of the story itself, which may contain terrorists or competing intelligence agencies pulling off hard-to-believe acts. The spy genre was so well-mined by the 1970s that it’s difficult to find an angle that hasn’t become cliché. You have to come up with something completely new or look at the old plots with a fresh, contemporary eye.

Paranoia and lies preoccupy Milo Weaver, the CIA agent in The Tourist.
My interest in paranoia and lies ties into a basic interest in how people relate to one another. Personal relationships involve a certain level of deception – one deceives a loved one to avoid hurt, or deceives oneself for similar reasons. As a novelist, I’m placing my characters in environments that externalise this internal deception. That way, the external and internal worlds of my characters can play off one another more easily and give a natural sense of unity to the story.

What do you see as the future for the spy thriller?
Genres never die – they just slumber until the reading public becomes hungry for them again. If the spy novel is to remain an important form – one that critiques in a significant way the relationship between ‘us’ and ‘them’ – then outsiders’ views of America must be thoroughly realistically explored.

What's Next?
The Tourist is the first of a trilogy, which will see Milo Weaver through another year or so, taking care of loose strands from the first book and leading him (at least according to my plans) to last year’s Beijing Olympics.

What's the status of the option George Clooney's production company has taken on The Tourist?
Hollywood stays very mum on such things, and I tend to hear about any developments when Variety tells me. But I do know it’s in the scriptwriting stage. Clooney is still set to play Milo, but for the moment I’m not going to bet on anything. That’s the only way to stay sane. -

Oline H. Cogdill, Reproduced with kind permission from Publishers Weekly

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  • PublisherMinotaur Books
  • Publication date2009
  • ISBN 10 0312369727
  • ISBN 13 9780312369729
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