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# The Cairo Affair: A Novel Mass Market Paperback – November 3, 2015

**Brand:** olen steinhauer
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- **What is this?** The Cairo Affair: A Novel Mass Market Paperback – November 3, 2015 by olen steinhauer
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## Customer Reviews

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    Major Letdown Mr Steinhauer
  

*by M***P on Reviewed in the United States on April 18, 2014*

Steinhauer's first 5 books were unique and interesting, a new way to develop stories and tie it all in in the final book with a historical mix. His next 3 book trilogy with Milo Weaver was simply outstanding,  as good as it gets,  right there with LeCarre, Forsyth and Greene as authors. This book was so disappointing,  character buildup poor,  characters themselves uninteresting, not sure what his point was in writing the book. The Stan and Sofie relationship shallow, would have liked to see more  on Emmit as to character development,  and the plot line was  disjointed.Simply put,  to much about a weak immoral Sofia, a poor weak uninteresting character in Stan, and no main positive character who takes charge in the book. Mr Steinhauer,  please go back to Milo Weaver's character

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    Spy fiction at its best
  

*by M***K on Reviewed in the United States on March 25, 2015*

“In only three days, five politically active Libyan exiles vanished from the face of the earth” in different countries around the globe. Thus opens The Cairo Affair, a complex, multilayered spy novel featuring a young American couple, Sophie and Emmett Kohl — a mid-ranked diplomat and his wife of twenty years, a housewife, recently relocated from Cairo to Budapest. Somehow, the Kohls are connected to the disappearance of those five Libyans. Therein lies the tale.With consummate skill, Olen Steinhauer relates the tale of Sophie and Emmett through a mind-bending series of chapters, alternating from the point of view of one of the principal characters to another: Sophie and four men, all intelligence agents, who play major roles in her slowly growing understanding of how her life and that of her husband are linked to the Libyans. It’s a masterful display of plotting, not always fully unpredictable but nonetheless surprising to the very end. The action moves from Cairo to Budapest to Germany and the Libyan desert.This is spy fiction at its best.The Cairo Affair is the ninth of Olen Steinhauer’s ten spy novels. He began his career with a brilliant five-book cycle of thrillers set in a fictional Eastern European country that artfully portrayed a society under Communism, with one novel for each of the five decades starting with the 1940s. (You can find reviews of all five on this blog.) Later, he wrote a trilogy of best-selling stories featuring Milo Weaver of the CIA, which top reviewers ranked with John Le Carre’s classic spy novels as the best in the genre.

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    Once again we have a book dealing with the well ...
  

*by A***R on Reviewed in the United States on December 2, 2014*

Once again we have a book dealing with the well thread path dealing with the insidious lure of corruption afflicting human behaviour. However, the book present a powerful  and realistic description of subversive ethnic tension in a country where different ethnic groups were forced to accept each other and live in harmony, regardless despised cultural differences, in order to maintain the political status quo. The horrific consequences described by the author are only some of the atrocity that actually took place.Subtly the book compels the readers to reassess their political and social values and it incites to question beliefs and motives. One cannot help but  wonder whether the presence of different  cultural groups in any society could arise negative feelings and aggressive behaviour in the main stream population at the first sign of a domestic crisis.

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