Author: Olen Steinhauer
Publisher: Minotaur Books; 1st edition
Two of the CIA's case officers in Vienna, Henry Pelham and Celia Harrison, were lovers at the time, and on the night of the hostage crisis Celia decided she'd had enough. She left the agency, married and had children, and is now living an ordinary life in the idyllic town of Carmel-by-the-Sea. Henry is still a case officer in Vienna, and has traveled to California to see her one more time, to relive the past, maybe, or to put it behind him once and for all.
But neither of them can forget that long-ago question: Had their agent been compromised? If so, how? Each also wonders what role tonight's dinner companion might have played in the way the tragedy unfolded six years ago.
All the Old Knives is New York Times bestseller Olen Steinhauer's most intimate, most cerebral, and most shocking novel to date.
Henry Pelham 和Celia Harrison 是中央情報(bào)局在維也納的兩名官員,他們同時(shí)也是情侶。而在發(fā)生人質(zhì)危機(jī)的那一晚,Celia覺得自己受夠了這樣的生活,于是她選擇離開情報(bào)局并與他人結(jié)婚生子。而Henry留了下來,但是他決定去見Celia最后一面來同過去告別。但是心中裝著六年前的悲劇的兩個(gè)人都不清楚該以怎樣的心態(tài)去赴宴。這本書是作者Olen最令人震撼的作品。
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