Milo Weaver Books in Order: How to read Olen Steinhauer’s series?

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Coming from American writer Olen Steinhauer (Berlin Station), the Milo Weaver Series is a series of espionage novels focused on the reluctant CIA agent named Milo Weaver. Milo Weaver used to be an undercover agent for the CIA with no home and no identity, what is known as a “tourist.” He wanted to leave this life of secrets and lies behind him, preferring a desk job instead. But complex circumstances drag him back to the field, in a web of mysteries.

How to read the Milo Weaver Series in order?

Every entry in the Milo Weaver book series works as a standalone story, but the lives of the different characters evolve from one novel to the other.

  1. The Tourist – Milo Weaver has tried to leave his old life of secrets and lies behind by giving up his job as a “tourist” for the CIA-an undercover agent with no home, no identity-and working a desk at the CIA’s New York headquarters. But staying retired from the field becomes impossible when the arrest of a long-sought-after assassin sets off an investigation into one of Milo’s oldest colleagues and friends. With new layers of intrigue being exposed in his old cases, he has no choice but to go back undercover and find out who’s been pulling the strings once and for all.
  2. The Nearest Exit – 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.
  1. An American Spy – With only a handful of “tourists”-CIA-trained assassins-left, Weaver would like to move on and use this as an opportunity to regain a normal life, a life focused on his family. His former boss in the CIA, Alan Drummond, can’t let it go. When Alan uses one of Milo’s compromised aliases to travel to London and then disappears, calling all kinds of attention to his actions, Milo can’t help but go in search of him. Worse still, it’s beginning to look as if Tourism’s enemies are gearing up for a final, fatal blow.
  2. The Last Tourist – Reluctant CIA agent Milo Weaver thought he had finally put “Tourists”-CIA-trained assassins-to bed. A decade later, Milo is hiding out in Western Sahara when a young CIA analyst arrives to question him about a series of suspicious deaths and terrorist chatter linked to him. Their conversation is soon interrupted by a new breed of Tourists intent on killing them both, forcing them to run. As he tells his story, Milo is joined by colleagues and enemies from his long history in the world of intelligence, and the young analyst wonders what to believe. He wonders, too, if he’ll survive this encounter.

If you like the Milo Weaver reading order, you may be interested in John le Carré’s books, a big inspiration for Olen Steinhauer.

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