The Travelers
A Novel
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4.6 • 8 Ratings
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- $8.99
Publisher Description
In this “Hitchcockian thriller” (The Washington Post), an ordinary man becomes embroiled in a deadly plot with terrifying global implications—from the New York Times bestselling author of The Doorman.
“When it comes to quick-witted, breathless thrillers that trot the globe, [Pavone’s] are top-tier.”—The New York Times
A NEW YORK POST AND ST. LOUIS POST-DISPATCH BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR
It’s 3:00am. Do you know where your husband is?
Will Rhodes’s life as a travel writer and a new husband look perfect from the outside. But behind this façade, he’s barely solvent, his idealism rapidly giving way to disillusionment, to the increasing worry that he’s living the wrong life, with the wrong person. Then one night in Argentina, a beautiful woman makes him an offer that he can’t resist, then a very different sort of offer that he can’t refuse.
Soon Will’s bad choices and dark secrets take him across Europe, from a Bordeaux chateau to a midnight raid in Paris, from a mega-yacht in the Mediterranean to an isolated cabin perched on the rugged cliffs of Iceland. It quickly becomes clear that nothing about Will’s life was ever ordinary. That the network of deception ensnaring him is part of an immense conspiracy with complex origins in World War II—and that the people closest to him pose the greatest threat of all.
It’s 3:00am. Your husband has just become a spy.
APPLE BOOKS REVIEW
Like The Expats and The Accidents, Chris Pavone’s third novel is a sleek, stylish spy thriller we couldn’t put down. Will Rhodes is a lucky devil, a travel writer who gets to gallivant around the world on a glossy magazine’s dime. But perfect lives are never what they seem—and in Will’s case, we soon see that he’s in over his head. Pavone pushes around his globe-trotting story with smooth precision, piquing our curiosity with alluring characters like an Australian blonde with a knack for showing up on Will’s trips and a bewildered intelligence officer working on a top-secret assignment. The fun is never knowing who can be trusted.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
One torrid tryst with a bewitching blond in Argentina might be all it takes to torpedo the comfortable existence of Will Rhodes, the globe-trotting hero of this fast-paced but far-fetched thriller from Edgar-winner Pavone (The Accident). With evidence of his infidelity as leverage, the temptress, who calls herself Elle and presents herself as an Australian freelance wine writer, strong-arms the New York based journalist for Travelers magazine into a string of dangerous covert ops during his assignments that increasingly, perplexingly, appear to target his Travelers colleagues, especially his boss, Malcolm Somers. Understandably preoccupied with the quagmire of lies and secrets into which he's sinking, Will only belatedly begins to notice that his smart, sexy wife, Chloe, might be leading something of a secret life herself. With its intricate plot pinballing down dual, occasionally crisscrossing tracks, the story offers plenty of page-turning action in exotic locales though some readers may lament the lack of a truly likable central character to root for.
