The Travelers
A Novel
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3.9 • 182 Ratings
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- $8.99
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Publisher Description
A pulse-racing international thriller from the New York Times bestselling author of The Expats and The Accident
It’s 3:00am. Do you know where your husband is?
Meet Will Rhodes: travel writer, recently married, barely solvent, his idealism rapidly giving way to disillusionment and the worry that he’s living the wrong life. Then one night, on assignment for the award-winning Travelers magazine in the wine region of Argentina, a beautiful woman makes him an offer he can’t refuse. Soon Will’s bad choices—and dark secrets—take him across Europe, from a chateau in Bordeaux to a midnight raid on a Paris mansion, from a dive bar in Dublin to a mega-yacht in the Mediterranean and an isolated cabin perched on the rugged cliffs of Iceland. As he’s drawn further into a tangled web of international intrigue, it becomes clear that nothing about Will Rhodes was ever ordinary, that the network of deception ensnaring him is part of an immense and deadly conspiracy with terrifying global implications—and that the people closest to him may 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.
Customer Reviews
Waste of $
Shallow amateur writing. Do not recommend.