The Nearest Exit: A Novel (Milo Weaver) (Paperback)

from Hagelstein

Like Daniel Silva (whose thriller, The Secret Servant, I last reviewed), Olen Steinhauer writes an espionage series with a recurring character. Unlike Silva, Steinhauer doesn't weigh his down with clunky exposition explaining what happened in previous novels. Albeit, The Nearest Exit is the secon...

from nosajeel

This is the second in a trilogy about a disaffected CIA agent in a special covert op's unit where the field officers are known as tourists and their New York-based controllers as tour guides. I thought the first volume was decent but in my review wrote, "I don't think I'll be reading the sequel a...

from shaososa

In this sequel to the wonderful "The Tourist" ,Steinhauer keeps his hero Milo Weaver globetrotting doing his best to figure out whether or not there is a mole in the CIA. It would be hard to write something to top "The Tourist", but here Stienhauer comes close. The book suffers (as did the first ...

from jasonlf

This is the second in a trilogy about a disaffected CIA agent in a special covert op's unit where the field officers are known as tourists and their New York-based controllers as tour guides. I thought the first volume was decent but in my review wrote, "I don't think I'll be reading the sequel a...

from nbmars

This is the second book in a post-9/11 spy/thriller series that features Milo Weaver, a CIA operative who formerly served as a "tourist," or "on-call" assassin for the agency. Milo was competent at serving as a licensed killer, but he tired of the dangerous and lethal work and wanted to settle do...