Olen Steinhauer

All The Old Knives

Now A Major Film

Pan Macmillan
2016

Taschenbuch
304 Seiten
ISBN 9781447295761

Celia used to lie for a living. Henry still does. Can they ever trust each other? Six years ago, Henry and Celia were lovers and colleagues, working for the CIA station in Vienna, until terrorists hijacked a plane at the airport. A rescue attempt, staged from the inside, went terribly wrong. Everyone on board was killed. That night has continued to haunt all of those involved; for Henry and Celia, it brought their relationship to an end. Celia left the agency and is now living an ordinary married life in the Californian suburbs. Henry is still with the CIA, and has travelled to the US to

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see her one more time, to relive the past, maybe, or to put it behind him once and for all . . . All The Old Knives is Olen Steinhauer's most intense, most thrilling and most unsettling novel to date. 'This is one of the sparest, most elegant spy novels I have come across in a long time . . . Written in glistening prose - with not a word wasted - it proves Steinhauer truly is John le Carré's rightful heir' Daily Mail 'There are few writers alive who can transform the mundane with such possibility . . . All The Old Knives remains coiled and alive until the very last page' New York Times 'Deliciously devious . . . Reminiscent of the best of Deighton and John le Carré . . . A white-knuckle ride' Los Angeles Times

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