
Black was white, and patriotism was treachery. “2016,” he writes, “brought out the worst in people. A few pages later, Steinhauer confirmed that his novel would twist and turn on matters of truth. It’s hard to tell at the outset, however, because this narrative opened with a Langley meeting that questioned Milo’s loyalty. Since Milo Weaver was an honorable man in The Tourist, The Nearest Exit, and An American Spy, I assumed his morals remained incorruptible in The Last Tourist. Like its predecessors, this one keeps the reader on edge until the very last page, mainly because it is almost impossible to separate the truths from the lies, the good guys from the bad.

Olen Steinhauer’s novel, The Last Tourist, is the fourth Steinhauer thriller featuring Milo Weaver.
