Dan Fesperman
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English
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"From the author of Safe Houses--An electrifying new novel about a CIA agent and a young Moroccan ex-pat who becomes ensnared in the world of radical Islam. When CIA agent Claire Saylor is told that she'll be going undercover to pose as the dowdy wife of a stuffy academic who has posited a controversial new interpretation of the Quran's promise to martyrs she assumes the job is a punishment for past unorthodox behavior. But when she discovers her...
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"February 1942: Woodrow Cain arrives in New York City from a small North Carolina town having left behind a wife (who'd abandoned him), a daughter, and a career as a police officer marred by questions about his possible complicity in his partner's murder. A job in the NYPD gives him what he hopes will be a new beginning, and it's on the job that he meets a man called Danzinger. Dressed like a "strange old mystic," Danzinger nonetheless has the manners...
3) Safe houses
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Series
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Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"The germ of the story begins in West Berlin in 1979. Helen Abell oversees the CIA's network of safe houses, rare havens for field agents and case officers amidst the dangerous milieu of a city in the grips of the Cold War. But during her routine inspection of an agency property, she overhears a meeting between two people speaking a coded language that hints at shadowy realities and then, before much longer, she witnesses a second unauthorized encounter,...
4) Winter work
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Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
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Emil Grimm, a Stasi colonel, has decamped to his dacha in the woods outside of Berlin after the fall of the Berlin Wall. On a walk one morning, he discovers the body of a fellow intelligence officer with whom he was involved in a clandestine mission. Now Emil is forced to pick up the pieces of their plan and follow through alone while under the newfound scrutiny of his colleagues. Soon Emil is connected with CIA agent Claire Saylor who is on the ground...
7) Unmanned
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Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Once Darwin Cole was an F-16 fighter pilot, a family man. Now he's a dishonorably discharged washout drunk living alone in the Nevada desert, haunted by one of his last missions as "pilot" of a Predator drone. Approached by three journalists trying to identify the operative who called the shots in that mission, Cole reluctantly teams up with them. But in our surveillance culture, even the well intentioned are liable to find themselves running for...
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Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2012
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English
Description
A thrillingly inventive novel about spies and their secrets, fathers and sons, lovers and fate, and duplicity and loyalty - a maze of intrigue built from the espionage classics of the Cold War. A few years before the fall of the Berlin Wall, spook-turned-novelist Edwin Lemaster reveals to up-and-coming journalist Bill Cage that he'd once considered spying for the enemy. More than two decades later, Cage, by then a lonely, disillusioned PR man, receives...
9) Pariah
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Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2025.
Language
English
Description
"Hal Knight is a famous, if deeply polarizing, figure in Hollywood and on Capitol Hill. After a disastrous #MeToo encounter, Knight resigns from his seat, quits social media, and disappears to a Caribbean island. Upon his arrival, however, he is approached by a group of mysterious strangers, whom he discovers are CIA agents hoping to penetrate Bolrovia--a hostile, eastern European country. They want his help in doing so. Bolrovia's oligarch, Nikolai...

