The Nearest Exit, Olen Steinhauer
The Nearest Exit, Olen Steinhauer
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The Nearest Exit
A Novel

Author: Olen Steinhauer

Narrator: David Pittu

Unabridged: 12 hr 32 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 05/11/2010


Synopsis

Milo Weaver has nowhere to turn but back to the CIA in Olen Steinhauer's brilliant follow-up to the New York Times bestselling espionage novel The Tourist

The Tourist, Steinhauer's first contemporary novel after his awardwinning historical series, was a runaway hit, spending three weeks on the New York Times bestseller list and garnering rave reviews from critics.

Now faced with the end of his quiet, settled life, reluctant spy Milo Weaver has no choice but to turn back to his old job as a "tourist." Before he can get back to the CIA's dirty work, he has to prove his loyalty to his new bosses, who know little of Milo's background and less about who is really pulling the strings in the government above the Department of Tourism-or in the outside world, which is beginning to believe the legend of its existence. Milo is suddenly in a dangerous position, between right and wrong, between powerful self-interested men, between patriots and traitors-especially as a man who has nothing left to lose.

“Milo Weaver, Steinhauer’s hero, is the opposite of Swagger and Reacher—he is conflicted and neurotic and hopelessly sentimental—but no less entertaining.” —Malcolm Gladwell, TheNewYorker.com

“Milo’s company is at least as valuable to the series’s appeal as is his flair for international trickery.” —Janet Maslin, The New York Times

About Olen Steinhauer

Olen Steinhauer is the New York Times bestselling author of the Milo Weaver novels, including The Tourist and An American Spy. He is also a Dashiell Hammett Award winner, a two-time Edgar Award finalist, and has been nominated for the Anthony, Ian Fleming Steel Dagger, Ellis Peters Historical Dagger, Macavity, and Barry awards. He is also the creator of the Epix TV series Berlin Station. He was raised in Virginia, and now divides his time between New York and Budapest.

About David Pittu

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.


Reviews

Goodreads review by ☘Misericordia☘ on November 27, 2019

Unbelievable plot. You take a secret department of the CIA, which is secret for the CIA/Homeland/etc. And it's not secret for some German something? As well as for Ukrainian and Chinese? Ouch. Satire much? Still, I liked the writing style. Q: “I still don’t buy it,” Milo said. “You’ve got Xin Zhu. By......more

Goodreads review by David on May 31, 2020

If you like spy novels, this trilogy has a real feel to it. It tells the story from the human side of the character, and makes him real rather than some kind of super hero. This series is second right after I am Pilgrim. I highly recommend them. David Putnam author of The Bruno Johnson series.......more

Goodreads review by Walter on February 27, 2011

On it's face, an awfully good read. The story line is complex. The writing is equal to the story. And then there are the moral and political ins and outs. Not a straightforward international thriller. All that said: it was Alyosha (Brothers Karamozov), among others, who asked (something like) if you......more

Goodreads review by Lewis on June 11, 2024

Started to read again ... confusing ... no driving plot ... decided to keep reading ... so many liked it ... maybe it's me ... ... read to the end ... some compelling scenes but many not ... impossible to keep all the names straight .........more

Goodreads review by Alan on June 09, 2010

A moral vision much like Le Carre but without the modernist sensibility. This is a grunt's-eye view of espionage. There is no James Bond allure to this world, no clarity of good vs evil but a shifting blur of bad, worse and worst. Its a world of moral opacity, where field agents are grunts to be use......more


Quotes

Praise for the Milo Weaver series

THE TOURIST
“A protagonist who’s as winning as he is wily.” —Stephen King, Entertainment Weekly

“[Steinhauer] excels when the focus is on Weaver, an intriguing, damaged man yearning to break free of his dark profession.” —People

“The kind of principled hero we long to believe still exists in fiction, if not in life.” —The New York Times Book Review (Editor’s Choice)

THE NEAREST EXIT
“Milo Weaver, Steinhauer’s hero, is the opposite of Swagger and Reacher—he is conflicted and neurotic and hopelessly sentimental—but no less entertaining.” —Malcolm Gladwell, TheNewYorker.com

“Milo’s company is at least as valuable to the series’s appeal as is his flair for international trickery.” —Janet Maslin, The New York Times

AN AMERICAN SPY
“Olen Steinhauer’s Milo Weaver novels are must-reads for lovers of the genre.” —The Washington Post

“Readers are irresistibly drawn into Weaver's dogged struggle to unravel a complicated game of cat and mouse.” —USA Today