Sony Pictures has optioned the three books of the "Milo Weaver" series of thrillers by Olen Steinhauer. The first of these, The Tourist, is being adapted by Matt Corman and Chris Ord (Covert Affairs). Doug Liman (The Bourne Identity, Mr. and Mrs. Smith) will direct.
Milo Weaver is a former "tourist", an undercover agent for the CIA on assignment to anywhere and everywhere around the globe. But do CIA agents ever retire … at least in spy thrillers? Of course not. Originally published in 2009, The Tourist was followed by The Nearest Exit (in 2010, winner of The Hammett Prize for best crime novel of the year) and An American Spy, which came out earlier this year.
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The Tourist
Olen Steinhauer
A Milo Weaver Thriller (1st in series)
Milo Weaver used to be a "tourist" for the CIA — an undercover agent with no home, no identity — but he's since retired from the field to become a middle-level manager at the CIA's New York headquarters. He's acquired a wife, a daughter, and a brownstone in Brooklyn, and he's tried to leave his old life of secrets and lies behind.
However, when the arrest of a long-sought-after assassin sets off an investigation into one of Milo's oldest colleagues and exposes new layers of intrigue in his old cases, he has no choice but to go back undercover and find out who's holding the strings once and for all.
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