ALL THE OLD KNIVES, Olen Steinhauer’s tenth spy thriller, is a doozy. I believe that is the correct literary term for a taut, riveting, well-constructed novel that has you muttering, more than once, Whoa! I didn’t see that coming!
Henry Pelham is a CIA agent, stationed at the U.S. embassy in Vienna. Five years earlier, terrorists took over a plane at Flugenhagen Airport and, when their demands were not met, killed everyone on board, including themselves. A prisoner at Gitmo has now told his
