Steinhauer is, in my opinion, one of the unsung masters of the murky Mittel-Europa spy thriller but his new book abandons the penumbra of Furst and le Carre territory and the Cold War and jumps with a vengeance into the even muddier waters of the contemporary Middle East landscape in a tale of torn loyalties and multi-layered betrayals.
With vulnerable characters of touching flesh and blood and unpredictable feelings, his multi-layered clockwork plot takes us on a fraught journey from Budapest to Cairo, the past of war torn fratricidal Yugoslavia and the perils of the Arabian desert. The compelling jigsaw that emerges intrigues, shocks and dazzles, proving a testament to Steinhauer’s mastery of affairs of the art and state and their frailties and the dangerous world of political games we live in, in which sadly no characters emerge unharmed. A sobering dose of reality but a great read.
Sophie Kohl is living her worst nightmare. Minutes after she confesses to her husband Emmett, a mid-level diplomat at the American embassy in Hungary, that she had an affair while they were in Cairo, he is shot in the head and killed. Stan Bertolli, a Cairo-based CIA agent, has fielded his share of midnight calls.
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Sophie Kohl is living her worst nightmare. Minutes after she confesses to her husband Emmett, a mid-level diplomat at the American embassy in Hungary, that she had an affair while they were in Cairo, he is shot in the head and killed.
The Cairo Affair features in the following genres: Espionage and spy thriller, Thriller and Suspense, eBooks of the Month, Crime and Mystery, Fiction, Recommendations
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The Cairo Affair was written by Olen Steinhauer and published by Corvus an imprint of Atlantic Books
The Cairo Affair has 408 pages
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