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Olen Steinhauer

Watch the trailer for All the Old Knives, Starring Chris Pine and Thandiwe Newton

By Crime HQ

March 8, 2022

Chris Pine, Thandiwe Newton, Laurence Fishburne, and Jonathan Pryce star in the Amazon Prime Video adaptation of All the Old Knives, and author Olen Steinhauer has written the screenplay for the film, directed by Janus Metz. Watch the trailer below! Watch the Official Trailer for All the Old Knives! A new movie tie-in edition of…

Criminal Element’s Best Books of 2020

By Crime HQ

December 21, 2020

Although it might be hard to believe, there were some good things that came out of 2020. We were charmed by Millie Bobby Brown’s Enola Holmes, and we laughed, cringed, and were unable to look away from the glorious trainwreck that was Tiger King. Sure, some days melded into each other. And fine, we’re all now Vitamin D-deficient.…

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 7: We Voted On Your Questions + Early Copies of The Last Tourist

By Crime HQ

February 18, 2020

Thank you again to everyone who participated in our Q&A with Olen Steinhauer. We were thrilled with all of your questions, and we tried to choose 10 of them that Olen will answer next week on the site. If your question/username appears below, congratulations on being selected to win an early copy of The Last…

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,…

Criminal Element Book Club, Week 3: Introduction to The Tourist by Olen Steinhauer

By Crime HQ

January 20, 2020

An Introduction from the Author The idea of a Tourist as a kind of intelligence agent sprang out of my own lifestyle in 2007. I’d never been a spy, committed murder, or smuggled state secrets across borders, but for the previous six years I’d lived as a novelist in Budapest, existing in that tenuous non-place…

Criminal Element Book Club, Week 2: Announcing Sweepstakes Winners of The Tourist by Olen Steinhauer

By Crime HQ

January 13, 2020

Thank you to everyone who participated in last week’s sweepstakes! We were so pleased with all of the excitement this book club has generated, and we wish we could provide even more copies of The Tourist. If your username appears in the below list, congratulations on winning a copy of The Tourist by Olen Steinhauer.…

Criminal Element Book Club, Week 1: The Tourist by Olen Steinhauer Excerpt

By Crime HQ

January 7, 2020

The End of Tourism Monday, September 10 To Tuesday, September 11, 2001 Chapter 1 Four hours after his failed suicide attempt, he descended toward Aerodrom Ljubljana. A tone sounded, and above his head the seat belt sign glowed. Beside him, a Swiss businesswoman buckled her belt and gazed out the window at the clear Slovenian…

5 New Books to Read this Week: August 7, 2018

By Crime HQ

August 8, 2018

Every Wednesday, we here at Criminal Element will put together a list of Staff Picks of the books that published the day before—sharing the ones that we are looking forward to reading the most! This week, Olen Steinhauer’s contemporary thriller combines with another fantastic anthology edited by Otto Penzler to highlight a great week of books! See what else we’re…

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