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Olen Steinhauer

Olen Steinhauer, the New York Times-bestselling author of ten previous novels, including The Tourist and All the Old Knives, is a two-time Edgar Award finalist. He is also the creator of TV’s Berlin Station. Raised in Virginia, he lives with his family in New York and Budapest, Hungary.

Criminal Element Book Club, Week 8: Olen Steinhauer Answers Your Milo Weaver Questions

By Olen Steinhauer

February 25, 2020

You have so many details woven into the story like the CIA office in the World Trade Center and the precursor to the CIA, the Pond. Did you find these true facts before you wrote “The Tourist” or did you add them later? Was there an advisor who had intelligence work knowledge you worked with…

Criminal Element Book Club, Week 6: Film School with Olen Steinhauer—Films to Watch While Reading the Milo Weaver Series

By Olen Steinhauer

February 10, 2020

Though this list could run many pages (even just focusing on films of the seventies), I’m sharing a few films that, whether I intended it or not, certainly informed my approach to The Last Tourist with their deft and entertaining critiques of the intersection of politics and business.   The Parallax View (1974) For a…

Criminal Element Book Club, Week 5: Olen Steinhauer on the Origins of Milo Weaver

By Olen Steinhauer

February 3, 2020

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: New Excerpt

By Olen Steinhauer

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,…

The Many Masks of Actors and Spies: Pulling into Berlin Station

By Olen Steinhauer

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…

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