A beautifully written thriller from the acclaimed Cold War series writer: 'a welcome addition to the wartime ground mapped out by Philip Kerr and Alan Furst' Guardian[...]
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 written'.[...]
Eastern-bloc Europe, 1956.Ferenc Kolyeszar, homicide detective, is finding his life increasingly frustrating.His career as a published author appears to be at a standstill, his job is acquiring a political dimension that is making him uncomfortable, and his wife is cheating on him with a colleague. [...]
In this auspicious literary crime debut, an inexperienced homicide detective struggles amid the lawlessness of a post-WWII Eastern European city.
It's August, 1948, three years after the Russians "liberated" this small nation from German Occupation. But the Red Army still patrols the capital's r[...]
In Olen Steinhauer's bestseller "The Tourist," reluctant CIA agent Milo Weaver uncovered a conspiracy linking the Chinese government to the highest reaches of the American intelligence community, including his own Department of Tourism---the most clandestine department in the Company. The shocking b[...]
"Another must-read from the best novelist working today in the tradition of John le Carre." --"Booklist" (starred)
In Olen Steinhauer's bestseller, "The Tourist," reluctant CIA agent Milo Weaver uncovered a conspiracy linking the Chinese government to the highest reaches of the American intellig[...]
The Scene of the Mass Crime takes up the unwritten history of the peculiar yet highly visible form of war crimes trials. These trials are the first and continuing site of the interface of law, history and film. From Nuremberg to the contemporary trials in Cambodia, film, in particular, has been cruc[...]
'The first rule of Tourism is not to let it ruin you. Because it can. Easily.' The Department of Tourism is an ultra-secret black-ops branch rumoured to carry out the CIA's dirtiest and deadliest work. Most agents don't even believe it exists. Milo Weaver knows otherwise. Trained to kill cleanly and[...]
THE TOURISTOLEN STEINHAUERMilo Weaver has tried to leave his old life of secrets and lies behind by giving up his job as a "tourist" for the CIA--an undercover agent with no home, no identity. Now he's working a desk at the agency's New York headquarters. But when the arrest of a long-sought-after a[...]
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 fielded his share of mid[...]
Six years ago in Vienna, terrorists took over a hundred hostages, and the rescue attempt went terribly wrong. The CIA's Vienna station was witness to this tragedy, gathering intel from its sources during those tense hours, assimilating facts from the ground and from an agent on the inside. So when i[...]
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 fielded his share of mid[...]
Celia used to lie for a living. Henry still does. Can they ever trust each other? Nine years ago, Henry and Celia were lovers and colleagues, both working for the CIA station in Vienna. Until terrorists hijacked a plane at the airport, a rescue attempt, staged from the inside, went terribly wrong a[...]
When a US diplomat is assassinated in a restaurant in Budapest, his wife sets out to discover who is behind the assassination and why. Her search triggers a series of high-stakes events that will have global ramifications, ultimately uncovering an explosive conspiracy.[...]
'The best spy novel I've ever read that wasn't written by John le Carre' - Stephen King
"Turisti" on CIA:n käyttämä nimitys agentista, joka toimii kentällä itsenäisesti, vailla säännöllistä yhteyttä päämajaan. Itsenäisyyden hinta on kova: jopa salamurhiin erikoistuneet turistit jäävät paljastuessaan yksin, sillä virallisesti heitä ei ole olemassa. Monen kohtaloksi ko[...]
Hengenvaarallisiin ja monimutkaisiin tehtäviinsä kyllästynyt CIA:n agentti Milo Weaver passitetaan tehtävään, joka totisesti testaa "turistin" uskollisuutta uusille esimiehilleen. Nuhruisessa berliiniläisessä hotellihuoneessa toimeksiantokuorensa avaava Milo tarkastelee kahta valokuvaa kauni[...]