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Chargement... The Last Touristpar Olen Steinhauer
Tour of Africa (37) Chargement...
Inscrivez-vous à LibraryThing pour découvrir si vous aimerez ce livre Actuellement, il n'y a pas de discussions au sujet de ce livre. I received this book as an advance readers edition a couple of years ago after I submitted a review on the first book in the series - The Tourist. I was thrilled to get it, but wanted to wait to read the the two books in-between first before I read this one, so I put it aside. Well I uncovered this one last week, and decided I'd read it anyway. Now I have the next two books on hold so I'm going to read the series out of order. This book was very good, but it just didn't quite grab me like The Tourist, thus the 4 1/2 stars. It is still so worth the read, and after I read the other two in-between I might change that rating. For anyone who enjoys realistic spy fiction with a loveable and somewhat flawed hero, this series is for you. His books are so realistic and so compelling, I just couldn't put it down. Milo Weaver is an anti-hero, or at least a reluctant one. In this book he is in charge of the organization that his father founded--The Library. The Library is in charge of collecting intelligence from all around the world. If nothing else, if you read the book, you will come away knowing that intelligence information is the basis now of all world events. We are in the Age of Information, and those who hold that information are all-powerful. It is a sobering thought because we all know how much information is out there that can be mined and collected. In the book, Milo Weaver is trying to stop the resurrection of his old organization and his life as a former Tourist. Is someone or some organization trying to resurrect "The Tourists" which were supposedly annihilated three years ago? Milo, with the help of his loyal family, friends and colleagues, is trying to stop something that he knows will be totally catastrophic to the world. The book kept me reading and enthralled from beginning to end. I still would recommend reading the series in order. I can't wait to read the the two books that I missed. Buckle up your seatbelts for this read, folks! As this was my first venture into this series I was not expecting so much travel, so many characters, or multiple issues. The story is far reaching and sometimes confusing but if you like espionage thrillers, this one's for you. I think to fully appreciate the depth of Steinbauer's writing, one should begin with "The Tourist' the first in the Milo Weaver series and that's just what I may do. aucune critique | ajouter une critique
Appartient à la sérieMilo Weaver (4)
"New York Times bestselling author Olen Steinhauer brings back Milo Weaver in a new novel. In Olen Steinhauer's bestseller An American Spy, reluctant CIA agent Milo Weaver thought he had finally put "Tourists"-CIA-trained assassins-to bed. A decade later, Milo is hiding out in Western Sahara when a young CIA analyst arrives to question him about a series of suspicious deaths and terrorist chatter linked to him. Their conversation is soon interrupted by a new breed of Tourists intent on killing them both, forcing them to run. As he tells his story, Milo is joined by colleagues and enemies from his long history in the world of intelligence, and the young analyst wonders what to believe. He wonders, too, if he'll survive this interview. After three standalone novels, Olen Steinhauer returns to the series that made him a bestseller"-- Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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What moved it from 4 stars to 5 though, was that, unlike a disgusting majority of modern fiction, the author & editor did an outstanding job eliminating plot & characterization errors! ( )