The Cairo Affair : A Novel (Paperback)

from gpaisley

4.5 stars. Great story, a little short on character development, but well-structured and well written. I enjoyed how he told the story from multiple vantage points and back and forth over time. There was a lot to keep track of, but he kept refreshing the reader in a way that wasn't gimicky or pat...

from Myckyee

A bit complicated to follow, but it seems like most spy novels are. Despite that, I really liked this book and am happy to have found a new author to add to my list of must-reads. Though I have his first book, The Tourist, in my TBR pile, I've haven't read it yet but I'm more inclined to push it ...

from Crazymamie

Sophie and Emmett Kohl were dining in a French restaurant in Budapest when it happened. A man walked up to their table, shot her husband dead, and then quietly disappeared in the chaos that ensued. Sophie is left with many unanswered questions and surrounded by players who will tell her only part...

from rufusraider

The Cairo Affair by Olen Steinhauer is a very good espionage novel set in Cairo, Egypt during the Arab Spring that led to the overthrow of Mubarak. The story is primarily about a couple who had been stationed at the U.S. embassy in Cairo a few years earlier. It covers their life together from the...

from col2910

Synopsis/blurb..... Sophie Kohl is living her worst nightmare. Minutes after she confesses to her husband, a mid-level diplomat at the American embassy in Hungary, that she had an affair while they were in Cairo, he is shot in the head and killed. Stan Bertolli, a Cairo-based CIA agent, has field...