A review by bethpeninger
The Tourist by Olen Steinhauer

3.0

I love me a good spy story. I am fascinated by espionage - part of my fascination with it is the reality of it. How realistic is the whole spy thing really? I think there is a memoir written by a former CIA, I should find it and read it to satisfy this burning curiosity I have. But I have digressed.

I came across this series because the third book was granted to me as an ARC. That time has come and gone and so I thought I would read the series in order.

Milo Weaver is an operative for a secret department hidden within the CIA. He and a select few are called Tourists and they travel the world meting out justice...from their perspective. It's not a lifestyle that lends itself to family or friends or roots. He is a perpetual traveler. And frankly, he's sick of it. Or he was sick of it. Now he mostly rides a desk at the office in Manhattan and has spent years chasing an assassin who just refuses to be caught. But all that changes when this assassin finds Milo and the intel he shares sends him right back out into the field. But things are different, both in Milo's personal life and in the field and this out-of-the-blue assignment calls into question so much of what Milo thought he knew.

A super entertaining book, enough so that I am definitely picking up the rest of the series. It's not a book or series, I will gush about but not all books need to be that. This feeds my fascination with espionage and is entertaining. That's good enough for me!