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An American Spy
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- Length: 13 hrs and 33 mins
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Publisher's summary
In Olen Steinhauer’s best seller 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 blowback arrived in the Hammett Award-winning The Nearest Exit when the Department of Tourism was almost completely wiped out as the result of an even more insidious plot.
Following on the heels of these two spectacular novels comes An American Spy, Olen Steinhauer’s most stunning thriller yet. With only a handful of “tourists” - CIA-trained assassins - left, Weaver would like to move on and use this as an opportunity to regain a normal life, a life focused on his family. His former boss in the CIA, Alan Drummond, can’t let it go. When Alan uses one of Milo’s compromised aliases to travel to London and then disappears, calling all kinds of attention to his actions, Milo can’t help but go in search of him. Worse still, it's beginning to look as if Tourism's enemies are gearing up for a final, fatal blow.
With An American Spy, Olen Steinhauer, by far the best espionage writer in a generation, delivers a searing international thriller that will settle once and for all who is pulling the strings and who is being played.
DAVID PITTU is a two-time Tony Award nominee, as well as the award-winning narrator of countless audiobooks, ranging in genre from young adult (Scholastic’s 39 Clues series) to spy fiction (Olen Steinhauer’s The Last Tourist and Milo Weaver series) to the contemporary fiction of authors such as Jeffrey Eugenides (The Marriage Plot) and Donna Tartt (The Goldfinch) and many more.
Pittu received the Audie Award for Best Male Solo Narration for The Goldfinch, which also received the Audie for Best Literary Fiction.
Not only a veteran theater actor, he works regularly in film and television. He lives in New York City.
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Pools of blood, scenes of carnage, signs of agonising death - who deals with the aftermath of violence once the bodies have been taken away? Judith Kepler has seen it all. She is a crime-scene specialist. She turns crime scenes back into habitable spaces. She is a cleaner. It is at the home of a woman who has been brutally murdered that she is suddenly confronted with her own past. The murder victim knew Judith's secret: as a child Judith was sent to an orphanage under mysterious circumstances - parentage unknown.
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Reader was very distracting
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October, 1962, in Cuba: Soviet ships off-load what intelligence reveals to be nuclear missiles. In Washington, President Kennedy and his advisers are in furious debate over how long they can wait to discover what the Soviets intend before dropping the first bomb. And, in Ithaca, New York, Margo Jensen - a 19-year-old Cornell sophomore - is swept up in a bizarre concatenation of circumstances that will make of her the back-channel liaison between Soviet Premier Khrushchev and Kennedy.
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GREAT spy thriller!
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Spycatcher
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Matthew Dunn spent years as an MI6 field operative working on some of the West’s most clandestine missions. He recruited and ran agents, planned and participated in special operations, and operated deep undercover throughout the world. In Spycatcher he draws on this fascinating experience to breathe urgent, dynamic new life into the contemporary spy novel. Featuring deft and daring superspy Will Cochrane, Dunn paints a nerve-jangling, bracingly authentic picture of today’s secret world. It is a place where trust is precious and betrayal is cheap....
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Juvenile and just bad
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Privileged Information
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Alan Gregory is a clinical psychologist with a thriving practice in Boulder, Colorado. His life begins to unravel when one of his female patients is found in an apparent suicide and the local paper begins printing accusations from an unnamed source of sexual impropriety between the woman and Dr. Gregory. He launches a psychological and personal quest for the truth that rapidly intensifies when more of his patients die untimely deaths, and Gregory suspects not only that the deaths are related but that another one of his patients may be somehow involved. Lacking facts but roused by suspicion and troubled by seemingly random acts of terror around him, Gregory starts to fear for the safety of the people he loves. The question of the inviolability of confidential disclosures made to Gregory by his patients - privileged information - becomes crucial as the psychologist pursues an unsettling romance with Lauren Crowder, a lovely deputy district attorney investigating one of the deaths. Bound to silence, Gregory follows the psychological tracks of someone he fears may be a cunning and disturbed killer, while turning to his enigmatic but supportive partner, Diane Estevez, for counsel, and to his tart-tongued female urologist neighbor for support. The sinister, surprising drama unfolds against Boulder's Rocky Mountain backdrop, in the arresting natural beauty of Aspen, and in the midst of a baroque Halloween costume party in downtown Boulder. Finally, in a lonely mountain lodge enshrouded in menace, the story comes to its breathtaking climax.
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Four and a half stars, actually....
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Kenneth Ewald has what it takes to win the presidency: the support of his party, a lovely wife, a dynamic campaign. What neither he nor any candidate needs is a corpse. He knows only one man capable of solving a crime, clearing his son, putting his campaign back on track and catching a killer: his best friend Mac Smith. Oddly enough, it was Mac and his dog Rufus who found the body in the first place.
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Truman
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Quintessentially Chicago
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No one can get close to John Medina, the CIA's legendary Black Ops specialist who works in the shadows of the government's deadliest missions. And no one knows the dangers better than Niema Burdock. A sharp, steely-nerved communications expert, Niema and her husband, Dallas, worked side by side with Medina on an explosive mission that went tragically wrong. Now Niema has withdrawn to a quiet Intelligence position, and a safe - if predictable - existence that has helped her heal her scars from five years ago. But now John Medina needs her....
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John Medina~ HOT sexy CIA ops~ RUTHLESS ~ LOVER~
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Fault Line
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In Silicon Valley, the eccentric inventor of a new encryption application is murdered in an apparent drug deal. In Istanbul, a cynical undercover operator receives a frantic call from his estranged brother, a patent lawyer who believes he is the next victim. And on the sun-drenched slopes of Sand Hill Road, Silicon Valley's nerve center of money and technology, old family hurts sting anew as two brothers who share nothing but blood and bitterness wage a desperate battle against a faceless enemy.
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Boy was I wrong
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Heartbreaker
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In the still shadows of the confessional, a madman tauntingly reveals his plan for a murder he is going to commit, pulling Father Thomas Madden into a twisted game by disclosing his next intended victim: Tom's sister, Laurant. In a frantic race to protect her, Tom calls upon his best friend, elite FBI agent Nick Buchanan, to track the predator who is closing in on Laurant. Now, as an electrifying attraction grows between Laurant and Nick, so does the danger - and one false move will cost both of them everything that matters.
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No struggle here.
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Since We Fell
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Since We Fell follows Rachel Childs, a former journalist who, after an on-air mental breakdown, now lives as a virtual shut-in. In all other respects, however, she enjoys an ideal life with an ideal husband. Until a chance encounter on a rainy afternoon causes that ideal life to fray. As does Rachel's marriage. As does Rachel herself. Sucked into a conspiracy thick with deception, violence, and possibly madness, Rachel must find the strength within herself to conquer unimaginable fears and mind-altering truths.
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- Through a Golden Eye
- 04-05-20
Hard to follow
Perhaps it’s my unfamiliarity with Chinese names, but I could not follow this plot. I enjoyed the first one, but this was tedious.
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- 02-21-16
only reason I finished this book is because it was
glad this was an audio book. plot was just coherent. the multi vantage take helped the flow, but it was hard to keep the story line. I probably will not read another book from this author.
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- Avi Stachenfeld
- 10-25-18
Read more than once
Steinhauer is quite simply the best for today’s complex transnational conditions. Reading once is not enough to grasp his breadth and deprh
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- Rosemary Sileo
- 11-03-22
Excellent Performance
I was easily able to follow which character was speaking, even all the Chinese characters.
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- John T. Bridges
- 03-07-24
too hard to follow
there were too many names to try to member. I did not finish the book
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- greg ensell
- 12-05-20
Don't do it!
The plot is so unbelievable it borders on the idiotic. Wish I could get a refund.
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- K. Cloud
- 03-14-12
a drag
What would have made An American Spy better?
I really dont know.
What was most disappointing about Olen Steinhauer’s story?
I never finished it
What character would you cut from An American Spy?
I never was sure who the characters were.
Any additional comments?
To many oriental persons whose names are hard to keep track of and before long I was not sure who they were, etc.
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- Richard
- 08-16-20
Never again
Horrible stochastic plot. No sense of progression. No beginning. All middle. No end.
Confusing. Long winded passages to nowhere. Shallow character development.
I can’t imagine a positive comment in review.
“Glad it’s over”!!
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- Kathryn
- 07-06-15
Disappointing and Totally Unsatisfying
I am a big fan of espionage and spy novels. I have listened to the first two in this trilogy (a must if you want to understand this book at all). After spending lots of time developing key characters in the first two books there is almost nothing in this book. Spoiler alert: Milo plays almost no role in this story. He is a pawn moved around having very little influence over the story - he is not a key player in any way. All the time in Nearest Exit working on his marriage, and there is nothing in this novel nor at the end of the novel. Sure we know they are still together but the pieces don't fit .. we just jump over history of their marriage which was central to the first 2 books and important to Milo in this one but with no substance. The ending - well the book just ends. Story lines aren't wrapped up they are alluded to. I persevered through Part 1 waiting and hoping to return to more of Milo, Allen, Milo's father ... but it never came. Read/listen to the first two books, don't bother with this one.
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- Booking in GA
- 02-04-13
Could Anything Be More Boring Than This?
What would have made An American Spy better?
Better narration, plot, believable characters. Interesting characters.
Would you ever listen to anything by Olen Steinhauer again?
Never. Ever.
What didn’t you like about David Pittu’s performance?
It was grating, his voice is very nasal and the accents seemed affected. The voice bordered on monotone, the worst possible trait for reading aloud.
If you could play editor, what scene or scenes would you have cut from An American Spy?
I don't have that much time, even in my imagination. Besides, what happens when you cut off a person's arms, legs, and head? The same would happen to this story--- get rid of the slow bits and there's nothing left.
Any additional comments?
This is the perfect marriage of a book that should not be read aloud and a voice that should not be reading aloud. I gave up after part 1.
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