I liked The Tourist a lot -- I loved The Nearest Exit. The book picks up where the last one left off: with Milo Weaver battered, sad, and back on the front lines of the spy business. This story displays the nasty, brutish business of spydom where the "why" is often far more sordid than patriotic. At the heart of the story is Weaver's search for a mole while at the same time desperately manoeuvering to avoid following some pretty awful orders. As Weaver follows the clues he also tries to figure out how to come back in from the cold to reclaim his family and his reputation. A terrific read -- the more Weaver learns, the more impressed I too was with the machinations at the heart of the novel.

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This book will make you a fan, even if it is #2. Ground view of espionage and the price it costs nations and individuals. You will love Milo, and the many parts of his character.

I got The Tourist, not realizing somehow it, and its subsequent other novels, were spy novels. I am, unfortunately, not a fan of spy novels. So my review really doesn't have to do with how good a book this is, but just that I am not interested in reading a spy novel. I didn't want to give it a one star, based on my own personal taste and not having read it, felt it would be unfair to give it a 5 star, so I settled on 3 stars.

After reading the first Milo Weaver book, I quickly jumped into this one. My hope was that the author was finding his footing and laying the groundwork for a compelling spy series and things would pick up with this book. Instead, I found more of the same, loads of lengthy dialogue, repetitiveness, and bits of action followed by page after page of slow-moving story. The story has great potential but seems to always stay just this side of the compelling read that it could be. I'm two for two now on this series that can't seem to cross over into something memorable, something that would make me want to continue on. As it stands, I'm on the fence about the series and its main character, so I think I'll be taking a break before considering the next Milo Weaver story.

I was hooked from the very beginning. This is a complicated story with lots of secrets. I felt for the main character as he goes on quite a ride. #The Nearest Exit #NetGalley

I liked the book but I don't think it was as good as the first in the series. There was a lack of pulling me into the story. So I didn't feel the same must turn the page that I got from the first good. Well worth reading tho. After all there are spies and world drama. What's not to like?

2nd in series for MIlo Weaver. moves well has more tension. with spies cia and devious plots you want to find out what's going to happen. book three is next!

Very good series! I started the first book in the series, and finished all three books in one week. Characters are well developed, and the plot is action packed!

The author provides a strong foundation and plenty of detail to support the characters and the story line. The book moves at a good pace. I f you like this genre then you should like this book.

Thanks to NetGalley for this ReadNow opportunity of a book I usually wouldn't pick up on my own. I found this book to be quite interesting and it piqued my curiosity.

The second book is just as good as the first, with interesting characters and a great story. I had a lot of fun reading this one.

Milo Weaver is now a man with little to lose and has become a reluctant spy, once again, but now he must prove his loyalty in a world filled with traitors, patriots and self-important men who care only for their own gain. Is it worth it?

THE NEAREST EXIT by Olen Steinhauer continues to chronicle Milo’s life, for better or worse. Once again filled with dialogue and the reiteration of events from book one, there was a bit of a drag-drop-move feel as we are taken through rare moments of high intrigue and page after page of slow movement for the sake of details that are uneven, at best.

There is so much potential for a riveting espionage saga that gets lost in the repetition and quagmire of a man who clearly has made some bad decisions and moves along like a puppet on a poorly tied string.

I had hoped that after the groundwork of book one was laid, book two would take the baton and run, but for me, this wasn’t the case. I am all for flawed and conflicted heroes, bad guys with an agenda, but this time out, book two kind of let me down.

I received a complimentary copy from Minotaur Books. This is my honest and voluntary review.

Series: Milo Weaver - Book 2
Publisher: Minotaur Books; First edition (May 6, 2010)
Publication Date: May 11, 2010
Genre: Espionage
Print Length: 413 pages
Available from: Amazon | Barnes & Noble
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Olen Steinhaurer in fine form with this sequel to The Tourist.. Captivating and well worth the read!

Forget what you thought you knew about the glamorous world of espionage. Forget the sports cars 🚗 barreling down the autobahn, the secret gadgets, the exclusive casinos, the seductive Russian women, the champagne corks. The Nearest Exit, the second book in the Milo Weaver series, takes you into a dirty world of shadows and moral ambiguities where compromises are made and souls are empty. The Nearest Exit is a title that assumes there is an exit off this highway - that one can voluntarily cease being a "tourist" - that there's a normal life you could ever live. It's more like the whole damn house is on fire and there ain't no bloody Exit to be found. It's a book that is shocking from beginning to end and, even when you think you're just treading water among the circling sharks 🦈, there's more to come.

I loved He Tourist, and was excited for this follow up. Great character in Milo Weaver and constant action and intrigue. I hope there will be more adventures to come.