The new thriller by Dan Fesperman, set in early 1990s East Germany. A CIA agent and a Stasi colonel must fight for their lives against a powerful enemy.
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Dan Fesperman crafts compelling thrillers often set in the diverse locales his journalism has taken him. His award-winning novels delve into political intrigue and the complexities of human nature, exploring themes of conflict and morality. Fesperman masterfully blends suspense with a nuanced portrayal of characters and their motivations. Readers are drawn into his narratives, which are rich with twists, moral ambiguity, and a keen eye for geopolitical realities.






- 2022
- 2021
The Cover Wife
- 400 pages
- 14 hours of reading
A high-stakes spy thriller, set in Paris and Hamburg, about the conspiracy behind the 9/11 attacks.
- 2018
Safe Houses
- 624 pages
- 22 hours of reading
Anna is determined to understand why her brother apparently murdered their parents while they slept at their small farm in Maryland. The trail will lead her to events set in motion during one night nearly four decades ago in a Berlin safe house run by the CIA.
- 2017
The Letter Writer
- 384 pages
- 14 hours of reading
Praise for Dan Fesperman's The Letter Writer A penetrating portrait. . . . Saturated with color and humming with life. - The New York Times Book Review Gritty, nostalgic. - The Wall Street Journal A cracking good yarn. - The News& Observer (Raleigh) Stunning. . . . Danger, intrigue, politics, and spies are all masterfully woven for the reader's entertainment. . . . Addictive, fast- paced, and thrilling. - San Francisco Book Review Makes New York come alive with conspiracy and mystery. . . . [Fesperman] has created a character who will stay with you long after the last shot is fired. - Kirkus Reviews The WWII alliance between the Mafia and the U.S. government has been explored in crime fiction before . . . but never in such compelling fashion as Fesperman does here. . . . What makes this novel shine is the way Fesperman combines it with the mobsters-as-patriots angle and with the rich character of the letter writer. A multifaceted mix of mystery and historical fiction. - Booklist Intelligent . . . Fesperman shows a skilled hand at creating the detail of wartime New York. . . . The likable and well-drawn [protagonist] will go over well with readers, especially those fond of historicals. - Publishers Weekly The Letter Writer is a unique blend of a scholarly sleuth teamed with a Sherlock Holmes-like chameleon in a time of history ripe for building stories of suspense around. . . . The combination is pure chemistry, and pure entertainment. - Bookreporter The brilliant Dan Fesperman takes us into a world of intrigue. . . . Don't miss this one-it's sure to be on my list of the year's best books. -Margaret Cannon, The Globe and Mail (Toronto)
- 2015
Unmanned
- 336 pages
- 12 hours of reading
From the widely acclaimed author of The Prisoner of Guantanamo and The Double Game comes a gripping descent into the hidden world of drone warfare.
- 2013
The Double Game
- 368 pages
- 13 hours of reading
Set against the backdrop of the Cold War, the story follows journalist Bill Cage as he unravels a complex web of espionage linked to his idol, novelist Edwin Lemaster. After receiving an anonymous note suggesting he should have investigated further into Lemaster's past, Cage embarks on a perilous journey through Vienna, Prague, and Budapest. As he delves into the mystery, cryptic references to classic spy novels lead him to confront long-buried secrets and the dangerous ghosts of history that still linger.
- 2010
The Arms Maker Of Berlin
- 384 pages
- 14 hours of reading
An unflinching thriller that takes us deep into the White Rose resistance movement during World War II. • “Compelling…nonstop action.” —The Baltimore Sun When Nat Turnbull’s mentor, Gordon Wolfe, is arrested for possession of a missing WWII secret service archive and then turns up dead in jail, Nat’s quiet academic life is suddenly thrown into tumult. The archive is a time bomb of sensitive material, but key documents are still missing, and the FBI dispatches Nat to track them down. Following a trail of cryptic clues, Nat's journeys to Germany, where he soon crosses paths with Berta, a gorgeous and mysterious student and Kurt Bauer, an arms billionaire with a dark past. As their tales intersect, long-buried exploits of deceit emerge, and each step becomes more dangerous than the last.
- 2010
Corporate auditor Sam Keller finds himself surrounded by Dubai's underworld violence in the wake of a colleague's murder and turns for help to unlikely detective Anwar Sharaf, a partnership that tests the dark regions of each man's heart. By the award-winning author of The Prisoner of Guantánamo. 75,000 first printing.
- 2009
Freeman Lockhart is working for his old friend Omar in Amman, Jordan. And spying on him too. Hoping to prevent his own secrets from ever coming to light, Freeman has agreed to report back on his friend to a clandestine agency interested in Omar's finances. In Washington DC, meanwhile, Aliyah Rahim is spying on her husband Abbas. A brilliant doctor, Abbas is crushed by the death of their daughter, which he blames on the post-9/11 mood of hostility towards Arab-Americans, and Aliyah fears he may be planning a terrifying act of revenge. Freeman and Aliyah are pitched into the same deadly game, in which the only rules are violence and deceit.
- 2007
Revere Falk is an FBI interrogator who believes it is possible to get more from a terrorist suspect by treating him decently than by using more 'robust' methods. He lives his life by a certain code of honour. This puts him in a minority at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba. So when the body of a US soldier is found under mysterious circumstances on the beach, and a high-ranking investigative team is flown in, Falk should be above suspicion. But Falk has a secret, a secret he had hoped was dead and buried. Now, it is reaching out from his past, to the sodium-lit cell blocks and stifling humidity of this claustrophobic rumour-mill of a community, and its implications are greater than he could ever have imagined. Dan Fesperman is already the winner of the CWA John Creasey and the Ian Fleming Steel Dagger awards. This, his fourth book, will surely be hailed as his best yet.


