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title: "The Travelers: A Novel"
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# The Travelers: A Novel

**Brand:** chris pavone
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## Customer Reviews

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    Gotta be honest, I couldn't finish it
  

*by T***D on Reviewed in the United States on January 2, 2017*

I cannot recall why I purchased "Travelers" but I wish I hadn't because it is not for me. Pavone writes well and that's usually enough to keep me hooked until I'm hooked, if you know what I mean. Unfortunately, in terms of the actual 'hook' of they story, it is too obtuse and the mystery too slowly developed to have kept my interest.Superficially, the story of  Will Rhodes life as a travel writer should zing. He's getting out and about to some really interesting places, after all. But he's basically a lazy slob who is disappointed that he's not lived the wonderful life his imagination laid out for him, but so passive that his lack of self-assessed success is hardly surprising and I just wanted to shake him off the page and get him to do something proactive.Counterpointing Rhodes' ennui is the mystery of the Travelers magazine itself, and especially his boss as the Grand Poobar of some secret, shadowy dealings or organization or Government Department or some such...it was taking so long to develop that I literally lost interest.Now despite Pavone writing well, the prose is overwrought in too many places, describing items and events in too much detail and dripping with such ponderous intent that I found myself skipping paragraphs to get to the meat of the story. And yet it's the exact opposite in other places, skipping lively and delicately into Rhodes' emotional state as he falls headlong into lust on one of this trips. But that never made up for the ponderous stuff and my tolerance for that is low so I've given up reading at about the halfway mark.I'm not sure what exact genre "Travelers" fits into. The Kindle blurb calls it "The pulse-racing international thriller of the year" but it did not set my pulse racing at any point. Rhodes is an anti-hero at best, a sad slob at worst, and just not that compelling to me. His boss seems cut from the era when 'harass' was two words and Rhodes is so disconnected from his wife she may as well be a cardboard cutout. Perhaps everything accelerated the very next page after the one I gave up, but a thriller has to thrill and this had none of that for me.

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    Predictable, poor characterization, weak plot
  

*by S***Y on Reviewed in the United States on June 18, 2016*

Although not particularly well-crafted, this novel did more or less hold my interest--mainly because Pavone does have a way with words, and I enjoy his descriptions of places most of us will never see. I did like "The Travelers" better than "The Accident", but both are weak quasi-sequels to "The Expats." As with all his books, Pavone's inability (or refusal) to clearly delineate flashbacks, time changes, etc. becomes annoying. Often the only clue is that he switches from present tense to past tense, and even that isn't always consistent. This means the reader (who probably doesn't have a crystal ball) has to pay too much attention to the writing mechanics and do a lot of guessing in order to avoid getting lost amid the convolutions of the plot.I feel that Pavone is capable of so much more than what we're seeing. To date, his only well-fleshed-out character has been Kate in "The Expats", which also offers the only decent plot. I would love to see him put together another story that doesn't read like a "slap it together and get paid" type of effort.

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    Baffling from beginning to end -- and lots of fun
  

*by M***K on Reviewed in the United States on February 16, 2017*

In his third novel, The Travelers, Chris Pavone weaves a tale so baffling that you’re likely to be shocked again and again as the truth at the heart of the story gradually floats to the surface. Once again, as in his previous books, Pavone’s subject matter is espionage. The scene shifts rapidly and frequently from New York City to Mendoza, Argentina, Falls Church, Virginia, Paris, Capri, Istanbul, and other spots around the globe, including the Spanish Pyrenees and rural Iceland. The suspense is intoxicating.Will Rhodes writes about food for a 70-year-old New York-based business that operates a high-end travel magazine and a bespoke travel agency under the name Travelers. When he started at the company three years earlier, his wife Chloe left her job there because she thought their marriage would suffer if they both worked at the same place. She now works freelance. Will is deeply in love with her and committed to the marriage, but the allure of a strikingly beautiful and seductive woman he meets on the road is irresistible. However, shortly after the two fall into bed together he learns that she isn’t who she said she was. (Yes, we saw this one coming.)As the tale unfolds, Will finds himself repeatedly confused, betrayed, battered, and caught up in a high-stakes game of global espionage. Along the way, we meet rogue agents, a scheming corporate raider, hired assassins, a massive worldwide conspiracy, and enough surprises to fuel a dozen mysteries. Chris Pavone has written a spy story that ranks with the best of them.

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