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The Travelers proves that Chris Pavone's quick-witted, breathless, globe-trotting thrillers are top-tier. (Janet Maslin New York Times)

'The Travelers combines Pavone's trademark Swiss-watch plotting with warm and human characters caught up in a deadly scenario that gets plausibly and inevitably more dangerous as each page turns. It's hard to believe this is only Pavone's third book - he's already an automatic must-read for me.' (LEE CHILD)

'I love Chris Pavone's writing, it's smart and elegant and brilliantly intertwines intrigue with menace.' (PETER JAMES, International bestselling author of You Are Dead)

A Hitchcockian thriller... [Pavone] brings on a full slate of characters, sharply etching their dress, their moves, their motives, all the while evoking the world they occupy. (WASHINGTON POST)

'This is an unlikely but successful mix of Gone Girl and John Le Carré...Events speed to a spectacular denouement in Iceland.' (John Williams Mail on Sunday, Thriller of the Week)

'The Travelers puts Pavone's excellent pacing on parade; it's a fast, fun read, like binge-watching Alias.' (GQ)

'Wit, suspense, great scenery, and a cast of dozens propel this well-paced escapade to its (literal) cliff-hanging conclusion; it's like a 'Spy vs. Spy' comic-strip done in 3-D.' (Wall St Journal)

'The Travelers is a cat's cradle of plots and locations. There is no time to get bored, as two pages in Paris cuts to a page in New York and then Iceland, Istanbul or Dublin. The reader has to run to keep up ... and the journey is thoroughly diverting.' (Michael Prodger Financial Times)

Former publisher Chris Pavone continues his run of smart, elegant thrillers ...The Travelers is written with wit and charm as well as satirical brio: the homage it pays to the dying world of glossy magazines manages to be warmly nostalgic and cattily ironic. (John O'Connell Guardian)

'Back in the world of global espionage of his fine debut The Expats, Pavone is back on form...a teasing, ever-shifting tale.' (John Dugdale The Sunday Times, Thriller of the Month)

Chris Pavone grew up in Brooklyn, graduated from Cornell, and was an editor at book-publishing houses in New York for fifteen years. His 2012 debut, The Expats, described by the Sunday Times as 'a captivating, sophisticated thriller' won both the Edgar and Anthony Awards for best first novel. It was followed in 2014 by the New York Times bestseller, The Accident.