Former lovers, one also a former spy but the other a current one, discuss a long-ago terror attack over dinner--all the while peeling back their failed relationship--in Olen Steinhauer's meditative spy novel All the Old Knives.
Steinhauer borrows heavily from the old school of LeCarre and Deighton, focusing as much on the tangled personal webs as the treacherous professional ones, as both people reveal their own thoughts about a possible traitor in their midst.
Nicely done, in alternating chapters from dual viewpoints, and satisfying spy elements alongside a more philosophical bent.
This one benefited from a really nice audiobook reading from two narrators, Ari Fliakos and Juliana Francis Kelly. I borrowed it from the Morrisson-Reeves Library in Richmond, Indiana.
Steinhauer borrows heavily from the old school of LeCarre and Deighton, focusing as much on the tangled personal webs as the treacherous professional ones, as both people reveal their own thoughts about a possible traitor in their midst.
Nicely done, in alternating chapters from dual viewpoints, and satisfying spy elements alongside a more philosophical bent.
This one benefited from a really nice audiobook reading from two narrators, Ari Fliakos and Juliana Francis Kelly. I borrowed it from the Morrisson-Reeves Library in Richmond, Indiana.
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