When I first began writing about Milo Weaver in 2007, I was attempting to change course creatively. My earlier writing—five novels set in Eastern Europe during the Cold War—had begun to feel like a kind of escape from the messy, post-9/11 world unfolding around me. Instead of dealing with the world I was living in,…
The Middleman by Olen Steinhauer—the perfect thriller for our tumultuous, uneasy time—delivers a compelling portrait of a nation on the edge of revolution and the deepest motives of the men and women on the opposite sides of the divide. Prefer audiobooks? Click here to listen to Chapter 1! One day in the early summer of 2017,…
For the past year, I’ve been wrapped up in a project that, to be honest, has taken a lot more of my time than I suspected it would. It’s a TV show, Berlin Station, that I’ve been creating and writing with the help of a small staff of writers in a room in New York…
