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A word of caution, reading The Tourist is not required prior to reading "The Nearest Exit" but it would be very helpful.

"The Nearest Exit" takes place shortly after the conclusion of The Tourist where we find Milo resuming his job in the Department of Tourism. Tourism has changed - the budgets are smaller and a new man is calling the shots. Milo struggles with evolution of the department and wonders about the overall morality of what he is doing. That is the two sentence summary, however it is impossible to summarize the book's pace and intrigue. Just like "The Tourist" Steinhauer has written a top-notch page turner.

Why 4 and not 5 stars? I have a bit of a hard time getting over the framing that the US government is the "bad guy" in the story. To me, all of the CIA conspiracy theory clouds the book's overall believeability.

A few points-

- Great pace - "The Nearest Exit" reads very fast
- Not predictable - lots of twists-and-turns that are not exposed until the end.
- Steinhauer does a great job tying up all of the loose ends.
- While there are not many loose-ends it does seem apparent that Milo's adventures will be part of (at least) a trilogy.

Final Verdict - While I would recommend that you start with The Tourist I would highly recommend this series to any fan of Robert Ludlum's Bourne novels.

4 Stars


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The Nearest Exit Milo Weaver Olen Steinhauer Books Reviews

The plot is nicely complex and spread in Europe and the US. The characters psychological profile is well designed,deep,penetrating and believable.
Like Le Carre , Steinhauer examines the absurdity of Secret Services operations that mostly serve unlawful desires and demands of their masters and operatives,the paranoia in which the system operates and the difficulties of the hero, who is necessarily deformed by his missions to do something decent and live partly a normal life,frustrated by the demands of the job,this being the common fate of others like him.
Excellent prose,knowledgable creation of the situations the hero and others face,subplots within the plot to give the twists,diversions and turns,and a series of well sketched auxiliary characters make this novel a pleasure to read.
Like Len Deighton and Le Carre ,Steinhauer does not cease to be amazed and to so amaze the reader with the Human Folly and is mildly pessimistic about the future of Humanity as seen through the Secret Services and their masters and operatives. He openly doubts their usefulness
The Hero's struggle to keep some part of himself normal and decent and isolated from his missions is a very moving part of the book.
The story is well described in other reviews so, to sum up,this is a book well worth reading by readers that demand both intellectually challenging plots and realistic action.
DVK
Olen Steinhauer provides just enough background information so that this book could stand alone. Given that Steinhauer’s plots are so complex, that background information also is useful for the reader who started with the 1st installment, The Tourist. However, if you read one of the novels in this trilogy, you are going to want to read more; so read them in order. You wouldn’t read Stieg Larsson’s Millennium trilogy out of order--I’ve found myself comparing Steinhauer’s masterful plotting and character development to Larsson’s.

Could you stop with just one? Steinhauer does provide some resolution at the end of The Tourist and the end of The Nearest Exit. However, the story is continuing; and, for me, it was hard not to read one installment straight through whenever I had free time and then move right on to the next one. These books are truly hard to put down.

One difference from some other mystery/detective/spy thriller novels, including Larsson’s, is that the lines between good and evil are blurred in Steinhauer’s Milo Weaver novels. Steinhauer does an excellent job of getting the reader to empathize with the motivations of characters that are initially presented as Milo’s enemies. One country is not necessarily more in the right or wrong than another. In spite of his disillusionment with the CIA, Milo is forced to return to its world of clandestine Tourism in this novel. But Milo is no longer a good Tourist because he has come to care about people’s motivations and to expand the group of people he trusts outside the CIA. As in The Tourist, Steinhauer has included strong, trustworthy women characters among the interesting people he has created. Great read!
This follow-up work to the author’s The Tourist with the same leading character Milo Weaver is pretty much a disappointment. Weaver is the epitome of the reluctant spy; his problem he has a conscience. He had left the Dept of Tourism, an under-the-radar arm of the CIA, but now he has been asked back. Quite strangely, he has to perform a series of tasks to prove his loyalty? That should be a given.

Eventually, Weaver finds himself involved in a multi-pronged case involving a journalist who knows too much, a teenage girl killed for convenience, blackmail of a high-ranking German spy administrator, and on-again-off-again suspicion of a mole in the Dept of Tourism. The plot is not without interest, moves pretty well, and has its moments of tension. Generously, one could say that the story is complex; more realistically, it could be said that the plot is rather convoluted with at times narrative gaps, not to mention touches of implausibility. With a couple of exceptions, the characters are mere cut-outs. This book has the pieces that could have made for a great book, but the result is an uneven mosaic.
A word of caution, reading The Tourist is not required prior to reading "The Nearest Exit" but it would be very helpful.

"The Nearest Exit" takes place shortly after the conclusion of The Tourist where we find Milo resuming his job in the Department of Tourism. Tourism has changed - the budgets are smaller and a new man is calling the shots. Milo struggles with evolution of the department and wonders about the overall morality of what he is doing. That is the two sentence summary, however it is impossible to summarize the book's pace and intrigue. Just like "The Tourist" Steinhauer has written a top-notch page turner.

Why 4 and not 5 stars? I have a bit of a hard time getting over the framing that the US government is the "bad guy" in the story. To me, all of the CIA conspiracy theory clouds the book's overall believeability.

A few points-

- Great pace - "The Nearest Exit" reads very fast
- Not predictable - lots of twists-and-turns that are not exposed until the end.
- Steinhauer does a great job tying up all of the loose ends.
- While there are not many loose-ends it does seem apparent that Milo's adventures will be part of (at least) a trilogy.

Final Verdict - While I would recommend that you start with The Tourist I would highly recommend this series to any fan of Robert Ludlum's Bourne novels.

4 Stars