--- product_id: 22032922 title: "All the Old Knives: A Novel" brand: "olen steinhauer" price: "£10.74" currency: GBP in_stock: true reviews_count: 18 url: https://www.desertcart.co.uk/products/22032922-all-the-old-knives-a-novel store_origin: GB region: United Kingdom --- # All the Old Knives: A Novel **Brand:** olen steinhauer **Price:** £10.74 **Availability:** ✅ In Stock ## Quick Answers - **What is this?** All the Old Knives: A Novel by olen steinhauer - **How much does it cost?** £10.74 with free shipping - **Is it available?** Yes, in stock and ready to ship - **Where can I buy it?** [www.desertcart.co.uk](https://www.desertcart.co.uk/products/22032922-all-the-old-knives-a-novel) ## Best For - olen steinhauer enthusiasts ## Why This Product - Trusted olen steinhauer brand quality - Free international shipping included - Worldwide delivery with tracking - 15-day hassle-free returns ## Description Full description not available ## Images ![All the Old Knives: A Novel - Image 1](https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/41piJ30N5FL.jpg) ![All the Old Knives: A Novel - Image 2](https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/5197JtCOXSL.jpg) ## Customer Reviews ### ⭐⭐ Strong Beginning, Poorly Constructed Deceptive Ending *by R***P on Reviewed in the United States on September 28, 2018* I will say that this is a book that you should not skim. Many of the professional reviewers have gotten the message wrong by a throwaway line. One word in the ending pages changes everything if you were paying attention to the story at the midpoint, and I am not sure I like that change because most of the readers certainly did not pick up on it. And unfortunately, there would have been a profound scene just right after the book ends where I feel the author cheated us out of the denouement because there is a wage in the end for this. They both knew, and they knew what was going to happen. ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Old knives can still cut *by M***E on Reviewed in the United States on July 1, 2018* “Maybe love is the wrong way to live. Maybe anything that infects good sense is to be shunned.” ‒ from ALL THE OLD KNIVESIn 2006, a Royal Jordanian Airbus carrying 120 passengers and crew is hijacked immediately after it touches down in Vienna by Muslim extremists demanding the release of prisoners held by Germany and Austria. Fortuitously for the CIA’s Vienna outpost, it has a courier aboard that can text knowledge of what’s happening inside the aircraft. Then, the hijackers somehow discover his identity, execute him, and push his body out the door.Now six years later, the CIA is told by a Guantanamo prisoner that the courier was betrayed by someone within the agency’s Vienna office. Henry Pelham, then and now on the CIA’s Vienna depth chart, is assigned the mission to uncover the mole. At the beginning of the story, he’s on his way to Carmel, CA to interview Celia Favreau, an agent runner in the Vienna bureau at the time of the hijacking but now retired from the spy game and married with two kids.ALL THE OLD KNIVES by Olen Steinhauer is a book that should be appreciated by anyone that has enjoyed any of the George Smiley novels by John le Carré. Like those, ALL THE OLD KNIVES isn’t an action thriller by any stretch of the concept, but it has a character driven plot to be relished.Who is the hunter here, and who the hunted?At 294 pages of print large enough for my aging eyes, this was a book I couldn’t put down and finished in less than two days. It would make an excellent original TV miniseries of four to six episodes starring, say, Cate Blanchett and Gary Oldman. Netflix, are you listening? ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐ A Different Kind of Spy Story *by T***. on Reviewed in the United States on May 8, 2016* This is my first Olen Steinhauer title, and he's a very good writer. I'd heard great things about this short novel (novella?), so I gave it a try. It's a good, solid read, and rather unusual for a spy thriller--all the"action" is limited to a conversation at a table in a restaurant where two former spies are having a nostalgic dinner. This man and woman were once colleagues until a scandalously botched op derailed their careers. Or diid it? Nothing is as it seems in this short, suspenseful story. I only knocked off one point from a perfect score because I figured out the surprise ending very early, but I'm not sure everyone will. It's certainly not like any other espionage thrillers I can name. 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