The Travelers

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The Travelers by Chris Pavone was recommended by author Eliot Peper, It’s Pavone’s third espionage novel. Will Rhodes is a travel writer for a longstanding New York high-end travel magazine. His wife, Chloe, had worked there until their marriage three years before, but she quit apparently for fear that their careers might suffer while working for the same company. As a travel writer, Will continued to travel the world, and he wrote about the best of luxury travel, about great places, great wines and great food. He was deeply in love with Chloe, but he kept bumping into a very hot woman who kept trying to recruit will to work for her, allegedly a CIA operative. She got Will into bed and then threatened to provide Chloe with evidence of their liaison if he did not do what she wanted. Would the CIA really have it’s operatives use sexual blackmail?

So, all was not as it appeared, either at the Travelers agency, or at the CIA, or with Chloe. This was a complex plot with lots of characters and action that moved rapidly around the world. It was a captivating read to the end. Now I’m tempted to jump into Pavone’s earlier books, but I do have a couple other books that are calling to me from my reading queue. Thanks Eliot for the recommendation. You haven’t steered me wrong yet.