The Travelers by Chris Pavone Published by Crown on March 8th 2016
Genres: Thriller, Mystery
Pages: 448
Format: eBook, Kindle Book
Source: NetGalley & Crown Publishing
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.
**Special thanks to NetGalley & Crown Publishing for supplying my copy of this book in exchange for an honest and unbiased review. This does not affect my opinion of the book or the content of my review.**
The travelers was my first read for Chris Pavone. I’ve been hearing a lot about his books especially The Expats. It was when I read Stephen King’s praise for his book, The Expats, that I was very intrigued to start reading for him. When I found that Chris Pavone had a new book on NetGalley, The Travelers, I was very excited to request it and started reading it once I received it.
In The Travelers, you find yourself in the middle of a very high paced international espionage thriller. The book has a very good start that got me at the edge of my seat. As I read further, Will Rhodes, the main character of the thriller is a travel writer for Travelers magazine. What starts as a simple work assignment in Argentina gets him entangled in a web of breath taking events. No one can be trusted and nothing is as simple as it looks. As I don’t want to spoil the plot for you, I will not be revealing anything as you have to read it yourself.
To start with, I have to admit this is a good book. So why the 3 stars? As good as it is, the book wasn’t for me. I couldn’t really enjoy the book and get immersed. I thought if I read further I will get immersed. However, the further I read the more I got distracted and confused by the characters. Too many characters. So many times I had to go back and look up some names and some events. Thanks to kindle this mission was much easier as I could use the search option! But really, the characters were so many that I lost track. I felt like I was an intruder spying on the characters and trying to know things that were supposed to be unknown or something! Being me, the girl who never leaves a book unfinished, I had to stick till the end.
However, that said, I would still love to read more books by Chris Pavone especially The Expat. The Expat has been highly praised by Stephen King. It has also got very good reviews. As a fan of Stephen King, I trust his choices. So, I will give it another try.
Finally, if you are into pulse-racing espionage thrillers, you will enjoy this book.
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