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Description The Tourist by Olen Steinhauer Publisher: Minotaur Books Pages: 416 Language: English Publish Date: March 3, 2009 File Size: 1.2 MB Format(s): ePub & Mobi Milo Weaver used to be a "tourist" for the CIA an undercover agent with no home, no identity but he is since retired from the field to become a middle-level manager at the CIAs New York headquarters. He has acquired a wife, a daughter, and a brownstone in Brooklyn, and he has 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 Milos 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 iss 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 LeCarr. Author  Steinhauer was born in Baltimore, Maryland, USA, and grew up in Virginia. He attended university at Lock Haven, Pennsylvania, and The University of Texas, Austin. He received an MFA in Creative Writing at Emerson College in Boston. After graduation, Steinhauer received a yearlong Fulbright grant to write a novel in Romania, about their 1989 revolution. It was called Tzara's Monocle, and when he moved to New York City afterward, he used that manuscript to secure a literary agent. However, it was with another book, the historical mystery set in Eastern Europe, The Bridge of Sighs, that Steinhauer first found publication.His 2009 CIA novel, The Tourist, received positive reviews and is being developed for film by Sony Pictures Entertainment for Doug Liman to direct. A 2010 follow-up, The Nearest Exit was also positively reviewed.Since 2003, he has lived in Budapest in Hungary. During the winter of 2009/10, Steinhauer was the Picador Guest Professor for Literature at the University of Leipzig's Institute for American Studies in Leipzig, Germany. Related Torrents
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