All The Old Knives - Now A Major Film

<p><b>'One of the sparest, most elegant spy novels I have come across in a long time . . . Written in glistening prose - with not a word wasted - it proves Steinhauer truly is John le Carré's rightful heir.' &ndash; <i>Daily Mail</i></b><br><br><b>Now a major film on Prime Video starring Chris Pine, Thandiwe Newton and </b><b>Jonathan Pryce</b><b>.</b><br><br>Celia used to lie for a living. Henry still does. Can they ever trust each other?<br><br>Six years ago, Henry and Celia were lovers and colleagues, working for the CIA station in Vienna, until terrorists hijacked a plane at the airport. A rescue attempt, staged from the inside, went terribly wrong. Everyone on board was killed.<br><br>That night has continued to haunt all of those involved; for Henry and Celia, it brought to an end their relationship. Celia decided she'd had enough; she left the agency, married and had children, and is now living an ordinary life in the Californian suburbs. Henry is still a CIA analyst, and has travelled to the US to see her one more time, to relive the past, maybe, or to put it behind him once and for all.<br><br>But neither of them can forget that question: had their agent been compromised, and how? And each of them also wonders what role their lunch companion might have played in the way things unfolded . . .<br><br><b><i>All the Old Knives</i> is Olen Steinhauer's most intense, most thrilling and most unsettling novel to date - from the <i>New York Times</i> bestselling author deemed by many to be John le Carré's heir apparent.</b></p>