![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() “ An American Spy” turns on the efforts of Weaver and a few other survivors to inflict their own revenge on their Chinese nemesis. Weaver, recovering from a gunshot wound, was one of the handful who escaped.Īnd why would the obese, balding, 58-year-old Zhu risk such an unforgivable assault on American intelligence? Because he blamed the Tourists for indirectly causing the death of his only son. Of 37 Tourists, as its assassins are called, 33 have been killed in lightning raids orchestrated by Chinese spymaster Xin Zhu. As this terrific new novel begins, the department has been decimated. As readers of Olen Steinhauer’s two previous Milo Weaver novels know, Weaver has been part of a secret CIA assassination bureau, dubbed the Department of Tourism, although he wants to retire and live peacefully with his wife and child. ![]()
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