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Violence
Some
Moderate thriller violence; assassination and covert operations
Language
Barely any
Mild language
Sexual Content
Barely any
Brief adult content
Substance Use
Barely any
Moderate drinking
Emotional Intensity
Some
Moderate; the moral cost of espionage and the psychological damage of operating without ethical limits
What this book is about
The second Milo Weaver spy novel finds the reluctant operative pulled back into active service with a mission that forces him to make morally impossible choices. Olen Steinhauer's literary spy fiction is notable for its psychological depth and moral ambiguity — closer to le Carré than to Clancy — and its portrayal of espionage as a genuinely corrosive institution.
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Spy thriller violence
Moral ambiguity of intelligence operations
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