Steinhauer does for Chino-American espionage exactly what John le Carré did for the Cold War, which gives his thriller a unique insight into this treacherous half-lit world in the 21st century.
Daily Mail
Tauter than Robert Ludlum's Bourne
Daily Mail
The kind of thing Le Carré might have written if he knew then what we know now
Lee Child
Not since John le Carré has a writer so vividly evoked the multilayered, multifaceted, deeply paranoid world of espionage...Real espionage is actually like this
New York Times
Olen Steinhauer has been hailed as the best espionage thriller writer of his generation and successor to John le Carré
Sunday Express