Despite the rather loopy description above when you read the novels Steinhauer manages to keep the concept grounded in reality, mostly succeeding in making the wild leaps feel natural. Weaver ended up taking over for his father as the head of yet another secret spy agency, this one called “the library” and run out of the UN by Milo’s father, a former Russian spy. At the end of An American Spy, the department had been decimated by its rivals in the Chinese government and put in mothballs. Members of the department, called “tourists” would fan out around the world killing those who got in the way of the good ol’ US of A. Milo was a member of a secretive CIA department called Tourism, it’s agents tasked with cleaning up messes that the government didn’t want to have to acknowledge.
It’s been 8 years since we’ve had a novel dedicated to the trials and tribulations of Milo Weaver, Olen Steinhauer’s former spy turned spymaster.
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