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The Tourist
by Olen Steinhauer
The “Department of Tourism” is a somewhat secret black-ops division of the CIA, and the main character of this novel is Milo Weaver who is/was a field agent or a Tourist. This novel is more of a character study than a book of political intrigue. We meet Milo on 9/11/01 as an wreck of a man broken down by the world of black-ops and espionage and ready to end it all. The story then picks up six years later and Milo has taken a desk job with the CIA and has become a husband and step father. Milo goes into the field again to help a friend and ends up on the run and accused of several murders. The toll that Milo's secret life and the world of espionage has on him and his family focal point of the novel, with the resolution of the main conspiracy being minor and vague in the end. The novel slows down toward the end and if you are looking for an ending that ties everything together neatly you will be disappointed, but I enjoyed the depiction of the uncertain world of espionage and political intrigue.