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"The brilliant second novel in Olen Steinhauer's New York Times bestselling Milo Weaver espionage series, The Nearest Exit is republished with an all new package. ""This is a classic spy novel, but it's Weaver's angst that lifts the book to a compelling level of freshness."" --USA Today Faced with the potential dissolution of his marriage and the end of his quiet, settled life, reluctant spy Milo Weaver has no choice but to return to his old job as a ""tourist"" for the CIA. But before he can get back to the dirty work of espionage, he has to prove his worth to his new bosses. Armed with a stack of false identities, Milo heads back to Europe, and for nearly three months every assignment is executed perfectly. Then he's instructed to kill the fifteen-year-old daughter of Moldovan immigrants, and make the body disappear. No questions. For Milo, it's an impossible task, but ignoring his handlers is equally untenable. Suddenly he's in a dangerous position, caught between right and wrong, between powerful self-interested foes, between patriots and traitors--especially now that he has nothing left to lose."

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"Praise for The Nearest Exit ""The Nearest Exit should take its place among the best of the spy thrillers."" --Associated Press ""A terrific second installment in Olen Steinhauer's ""Tourist"" spy series about Milo Weaver . . . [His] company is at least as valuable to the series' appeal as is his flair for international trickery."" --Janet Maslin, The New York Times ""A spy novel that asks deeper questions about the price we extract from individuals in the pursuit of the so-called greater good."" --Los Angeles Times ""Like le Carr�'s George Smiley, Weaver is a richly imagined creation with a scarred psyche and a complex back story that elevates him above the status of run-of-the-mill world-weary spook."" --The New York Times Book Review"

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

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Olen Steinhauer is a New York Times bestselling author, a Dashiell Hammett Award winner, a two-time Edgar Award finalist, and has also 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.

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