The Cairo Affair

Olen Steinhauer (Get this book)
One of the two best espionage novelists working today, Steinhauer follows his acclaimed Milo Weaver trilogy with a stunning stand-alone that is as emotionally rich as it is layered with intrigue. Budapest, March 2011: career diplomat Emmett Kohl is shot dead in a restaurant, in front of his disbelieving wife, Sophie. Determined to find out why, she follows a trail that leads to the American embassy in a tumultuous Cairo; to the revolution under way in neighboring Libya; to Langley, Virginia; and to her own ill-fated honeymoon in Eastern Europe. It has become de rigeur to compare Steinhauer to le Carr', but it's nearly time to pass the torch: for the next generation, it's Steinhauer who will become the standard by which others are measured.--Booklist