Dan Fesperman

Dan Fesperman will sign and discuss Safe Houses (Knopf; $26.95).

Dan Fesperman travels as a journalist and novelist have taken him to thirty countries and three war zones. Lie in the Dark won the Crime Writers' Association of Britain's John Creasey Memorial Dagger Award for best first crime novel, The Small Boat of Great Sorrows won their Ian Fleming Steel Dagger Award for best thriller, and The Prisoner of Guantanamo won the Dashiell Hammett Award from the International Association of Crime Writers. He lives in Baltimore.

Photo: © Lloyd Fox

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Event date: 

Friday, July 6, 2018 - 6:30pm

Event address: 

2342 Bissonnet St.
Houston, TX 77005
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Safe Houses: A novel By Dan Fesperman Cover Image
$26.95
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ISBN: 9780525520191
Published: Knopf - July 3rd, 2018

West Berlin, 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. Helen's world is upended when she overhears a meeting between two people unfamiliar to her speaking a coded language that hints at shadowy realities.


The Letter Writer: A Novel By Dan Fesperman Cover Image
$18.00
ISBN: 9781101873991
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Published: Vintage Crime/Black Lizard - March 21st, 2017

From the acclaimed author of Winter Work comes a gripping novel about a disgraced New York City cop in 1942 whose latest investigation will thrust him into a citywide web of possibly traitorous corruption from which he may not get out alive.

"Addictive, fast-paced, and thrilling.” —San Francisco Book Review


Unmanned By Dan Fesperman Cover Image
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ISBN: 9780345806987
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Published: Vintage Crime/Black Lizard - June 23rd, 2015

From the widely acclaimed author of The Prisoner of Guantánamo and The Double Game, an electrifying, timely, psychologically gripping descent into the hidden, expanding world of drone warfare. • “Timely and disturbing…. An exciting story, expertly told.” —The Washington Post Book World


The Double Game By Dan Fesperman Cover Image
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ISBN: 9780307744401
Published: Vintage Crime/Black Lizard - May 21st, 2013

From the acclaimed author of Layover in Dubai—the story of a journalist’s journey to Vienna, Prague, and Budapest in search of the truth about a spy-turned-novelist’s decades of dark secrets…

“As fiendishly clever a spy story as you could hope for…. A guaranteed delight for any espionage fan.” —The Seattle Times


Lie in the Dark By Dan Fesperman Cover Image
$15.95
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ISBN: 9781616950644
Published: Soho Crime - March 6th, 2012

Vlado Petric is a homicide investigator in war-torn Sarajevo. When he encounters an unidentified body near “sniper alley,” he realizes that it is the body of Esmir Vitas, chief of the Interior Ministry’s special police, and that Vitas has been killed not by any sniper’s aim but by a bullet fired at almost pointblank range.


Layover in Dubai By Dan Fesperman Cover Image
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ISBN: 9780307388735
Published: Vintage Crime/Black Lizard - June 28th, 2011

From the acclaimed author of The Cover Wife comes a "fast-paced … fascinating” thriller (The Washington Post) featuring a lethal mix of mobsters, prostitutes, crooked cops, consuls, and corporate players in the mysterious and gleaming city of Dubai.


The Arms Maker of Berlin By Dan Fesperman Cover Image
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ISBN: 9780307388728
Published: Vintage Crime/Black Lizard - June 1st, 2010

An unflinching thriller that takes us deep into the White Rose resistance movement during World War II. • “Compelling…nonstop action.” —The Baltimore Sun


The Amateur Spy By Dan Fesperman Cover Image
$14.95
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ISBN: 9781400096152
Published: Vintage Crime/Black Lizard - March 10th, 2009

The widely acclaimed author of Winter Work now recasts the spy novel for the post-9/11 world—anyone might be watching, everyone is suspect.

“Exceptional…. Fesperman writes so well that it's easy to follow wherever he leads…. Chilling.” —The Washington Post


The Prisoner of Guantanamo By Dan Fesperman Cover Image
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ISBN: 9781400096145
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Published: Vintage Crime/Black Lizard - July 10th, 2007

When the body of an American soldier is discovered in Cuban waters near the U.S. detention facility at Guantánamo, Revere Falk, a former FBI agent, is reassigned from his job interrogating an accused al-Qaeda operative to investigate the soldier’s mysterious death.


The Warlord's Son By Dan Fesperman Cover Image
$20.00
ISBN: 9781400030484
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Published: Vintage Crime/Black Lizard - September 20th, 2005

“A tantalizing, timely thriller” (The Washington Post Book World) from the highly acclaimed author of Winter Work that offers a daring look at life behind the barbed wire of Guantánamo and a riveting portrayal of what goes on in the most secret levels of our government.


The Small Boat of Great Sorrows: A Novel By Dan Fesperman Cover Image
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ISBN: 9781400030477
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Published: Vintage Crime/Black Lizard - September 14th, 2004

The widely acclaimed author of Winter Work brings together chilling crimes, the lies people live and the cold facts of international politics into a “deft and gripping [thriller]. Impeccably written and ably plotted.… The action is more or less nonstop.” (The New York Times Books Review).